Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was how it should be between ex-lovers meeting again , just normal , no animosity . |
| 2 | DETAILED plans for a £4.63m leisure pool for Middlesbrough go before councillors this week . |
| 3 | Naturally , we look for deportment and how the flowers are carried , for colour and splendour , for abundance , for the sweet scents and the period over which the bloom is carried , and for resistance to rain , pest and disease . |
| 4 | The four most common reasons for resistance to change are : |
| 5 | There are other reasons for resistance to change . |
| 6 | Crop rotation can also help reduce the opportunity for resistance to develop in the insect population . |
| 7 | The case for Taylor to vacate his position has been strengthened by the pain here in Spain of a shabby England performance after the torment and failure in the European championship finals . |
| 8 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 9 | She alighted after him , and she crossed the footbridge too , but delayed stepping on to the platform until the train for Waterloo came in . |
| 10 | None of the versions we have will run under System V/2 , and we would therefore have to arrange for Waterloo to port the code to run under your operating system . |
| 11 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 12 | Before it was light Chola had lit a fire , and was frying puris and boiling a small pan of rice for Sigarup to eat before he left . |
| 13 | A spokeswoman for MEMHS welcomed the merger plan which , she said , would help to raise the profile of often over-looked services in the community . |
| 14 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 15 | Without it you 'd be just another beautiful , exotic woman , magazine-cover material , for look ing at . |
| 16 | For reasons Peters ( 1970 ) has made abundantly clear , the six-to-seven generation level was where lineages marked their beginnings and defined their separate identities : most Zuwaya history was ‘ local ’ to lineages . |
| 17 | Of these 21 left of their own accord for reasons ranging from incompatibility to pregnancy . |
| 18 | In extreme cases they develop a real school phobia , for reasons ranging from bullying by classmates to schoolwork anxiety . |
| 19 | At least 114 wiretaps were requested for reasons ranging from suspected arms trading to terrorist links or presidential security , but it was not clear if all the taps were actually carried out , the left-wing daily said . |
| 20 | In addition , even a knowledge of the relationship between body size and lifetime reproductive success in the two sexes will not answer whether the association occurs for reasons connected with breeding competition or because the two sexes differ in their energy requirements ( see Downhower , 1976 ) . |
| 21 | These gains were the by-products of a war fought mainly for reasons connected with the balance of power in Europe , but they were attractive enough to encourage the British to think about further involvement outside Europe . |
| 22 | By contrast , 27 selects the general reading of dog ( the specific reading would be odd here , but not for reasons connected with maximisation ) : |
| 23 | Subject indexing is generally carried out by those familiar with the discipline definitions , for reasons connected with the publication of classified bibliographies , or for the arrangement of documents in libraries , information centres , catalogues and databases . |
| 24 | However , restriction to a single wavenumber does not uniquely specify the flow pattern , for reasons connected with eqn ( 22.7 ) . |
| 25 | Yet , at first glance , and for reasons located primarily in the International movement , 1927 would not appear to be an opportune moment for Nizan to join the party . |
| 26 | The importance of looking for reasons to explain aggression or demanding behaviour is well illustrated in this case . |
| 27 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 28 | As adjunct to its education policy the BDA has recently embarked on a youth policy for reasons spelt out in a resolution passed by the Rothesay Congress in 1986 : This Congress recognises that the future development of the deaf community requires the full participation of deaf children and young people . |
| 29 | Many of the children with whom we work at school would not be accepted at the Petö Institute for reasons explained elsewhere in the report . |
| 30 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |