Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was how it should be between ex-lovers meeting again , just normal , no animosity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of these 21 left of their own accord for reasons ranging from incompatibility to pregnancy . |
| 7 | In extreme cases they develop a real school phobia , for reasons ranging from bullying by classmates to schoolwork anxiety . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By contrast , 27 selects the general reading of dog ( the specific reading would be odd here , but not for reasons connected with maximisation ) : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , restriction to a single wavenumber does not uniquely specify the flow pattern , for reasons connected with eqn ( 22.7 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The importance of looking for reasons to explain aggression or demanding behaviour is well illustrated in this case . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , the right of journalists and broadcasters to demand trial by jury , in those areas of criminal law where it still exists , is an important security against interference with media freedoms — for reasons explained in 1885 by Dicey , the leading writer on our unwritten constitution : " Freedom of discussion is , then , in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury , consisting of 12 shopkeepers , think it expedient should be said or written … |
| 21 | This process , characteristic of the whole of the public enterprise sector , occurred earlier in Britain than in Spain for reasons explained in previous chapters . |
| 22 | The question of whether the offence under section 51 should be triable summarily only is controversial , for reasons examined by the C.L.K.C. Since magistrates often imprison persons convicted of assaulting policemen , but not of simple assault , the propriety of excluding jury trial seems questionable . |
| 23 | There is therefore opportunity for only a trickle of legislation from this source and , for reasons stated below , even less than that flows . |
| 24 | Again , for reasons stated above , this group was differentiated along gender lines , occurring in none of the female cases and 30 per cent of the male cases . |
| 25 | Parents whose children were absent for reasons regarded as illegitimate by the school , can seek to avoid confrontation by providing explanations which the school would approve of ( ‘ Amy was absent because she had a stomach upset ’ , for instance ) rather than provide the real reason . |
| 26 | Without Ramsey 's knowledge , Fisher came to the decision that he could not want Ramsey to succeed him , for reasons given above . |
| 27 | For reasons given in the text , all figures should be treated carefully . |
| 28 | For reasons given in the next section , we remain sympathetically sceptical . |
| 29 | 196 , for reasons given above , and supplies were probably limited by the early third century . |
| 30 | Of the remaining 63 patients six were withdrawn before the end of the trial period for reasons given in table II . |