Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the pilot is lost and has been worrying for the past half an hour about where he is . |
| 2 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 3 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 4 | There are many good rod bags on the market now offering practical advantages and protection for today 's expensive rods . |
| 5 | Corollary Inc will announce the availability of CNS-1600 , a built-in surge protection feature on its Connection Station communication servers : CNS-1600 is an Ethernet device , which enables users to hot key between multiple simultaneous sessions with the same or different host ; it provides protection for up to 16 serial lines ; out this week . |
| 6 | It provides protection for up to 16 serial lines . |
| 7 | For Fairbairns this would be payment for hard work ; for Donnison this would be protection for both the woman carer and her dependants — in other words , maintenance of , and provision for , family relationships . |
| 8 | ‘ The removal of Wages Council protection for under 21s through the Wages Act 1986 , combined with the [ removal of ] right to income support for most 16- to 17-year-olds , has contributed to the decline of young workers ’ wages compared to those of adult workers . ’ |
| 9 | Simple photographs , perceived to have little artistic quality are afforded copyright protection for only twenty-five years after death whereas editorial photographs and ‘ artistic ’ photographs are given periods of protection of fifty years and seventy years after death , respectively . |
| 10 | And while Britain accepted the rise of Ibn Saud in the new country of Saudi Arabia , she also kept faith with the tiny emirates along the western flank of Arabia from Kuwait to Oman , over which she had exercised protection for more than a hundred years . |
| 11 | Scientists monitoring the level of solar radiation have warned people not to sunbathe without protection for more than forty minutes . |
| 12 | The union suggests that crofters get an automatic entitlement for up to ten cows and that sheep quota might be converted to cattle quota within the Highlands and Islands area . |
| 13 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 14 | Germany 's six biggest economic institutes rebuked the Bundesbank for not cutting interest rates fast enough . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd be surprised if we were back in before the end of this Parliament , ’ he said three weeks ago , almost emphatically enough for the majority of Tory MPs who want to steer clear of the Bundesbank for as long as possible . |
| 16 | The second thing we 're doing is we 've we are going to attract a lot of money from what we call a specific grant for mentally ill . |
| 17 | But might of been might of been more because erm , tt she 's had a , a grant for so much |
| 18 | and she had a grant for so much off the council |
| 19 | Make that donation worth even more ! |
| 20 | Professionalism , that was what counted — thorough , serious preparation for even the most informal and evanescent of undertakings . |
| 21 | It is an excellent preparation for both the Elect and the community for the great Easter Sacraments . |
| 22 | The functionalist theory also justifies high rewards for the occupants of certain positions partly as a compensation for the ‘ sacrifices ’ of loss of earning power and cost of training during the period of preparation for functionally important positions . |
| 23 | Argentine preparation for today 's game has been disrupted by the ever-controversial Maradona . |
| 24 | Argentine preparation for today 's game has been disrupted by the ever-controversial Maradona . |
| 25 | About two hours preparation for about ten minutes eating . |
| 26 | Between slaying each other by the sword , admittedly , in preparation for more energetic centuries to come … |
| 27 | In preparation for more difficult times ahead , delegates ratified the drastic " Special Period in Time of Peace " austerity programme , adopted in September 1990 , which aimed to stem corruption and achieve food self-sufficiency [ see also p. 38229 ] . |
| 28 | In fact this put severe restrictions on the committee 's deliberations , and the chairman repeatedly had to advise counsel for both the GMC and the defence that it was not their function to comment on the relative merits or otherwise of alternative forms of medicine . |
| 29 | On this appeal , we have had the assistance of leading counsel for both the appellant and the Crown . |
| 30 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |