Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , Sara did not want to be bound by a rigid time-table for meals , which Lizzie expected and insisted on . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle . |
| 3 | More compact shires usually focused on a single centre of the order of two or three thousand inhabitants with wealth to match : Leicester had a good 2,000 or more , including a leading burgess worth £600 ; in a smaller , poorer county , Nottingham was both smaller and less prosperous . |
| 4 | The upper line shows the least-squares regression for insectivores and frugivores , the lower one that for folivores ( from Clutton-Brock and Harvey 1977 ) . |
| 5 | The trade ban between Montreal Protocol countries and other nations in products containing CFCs does not come into force until 1999 , which leaves quite a lot of room for quick expansion and sales . |
| 6 | The Tinos is a two person backpacking tent worth £55 in the shops . |
| 7 | They each win a Hogan lightweight backpacking tent worth £150 . |
| 8 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 9 | It is best to use a kicking technique as part of a larger , integrated move , combining all the basic techniques that the beginner has learned . |
| 10 | Even if higher order descriptions of geometric associations ( ie detail entities , surfaces or solids ) are declared then associativity between objects is first performed on the relevant enveloping boxes ( or " local spaces " ) before deciding whether or how to proceed to the higher level of association . |
| 11 | It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers . |
| 12 | She won the car , a Citroen AX Debut worth £6,720 , in a Daily Express competition . |
| 13 | Campaigns to improve the health of the armed forces represented a classic instance of the inter-relation between science and politics . |
| 14 | Psychological reward is derived from simple adherence to standards and routines which , although originally emanating from the housewife as worker , take on an objective quality . |
| 15 | Many families have continued to attach great importance to the family line , adopting their daughter 's husband or another male as heir to the family name where there is no son to succeed . |
| 16 | So I left the forge , and started a new life , working as a clerk for Clarrikers , Herbert 's company . |
| 17 | In the United States allergy has been a specialty for decades . |
| 18 | He was in his prime , and had not long ago given up playing Rugger for Dudley . |
| 19 | The first meeting took place on the following Monday , 7th June , when the seven members present made the momentous choice of Hope as chairman . |
| 20 | Paul Biddle squandered another chance for Milton on seventy one minutes as he put the ball wide from close range and then with ten minutes remaining , Fairmile offered themselves a glimmer of hope as Wayne Glossop fired home through a ruck of players . |
| 21 | be required to undertake further work on the project and be referred to his project tutor or mentor for counselling |
| 22 | Constructed from lightweight aluminium , it has extra wide treads and a handrail for safety . |
| 23 | A Wrangler T-shirt for Paul |
| 24 | Myers may be mining his adolescence for material , but at the same time he 's giving a continent 's youth big-screen justification for its own sedentary existence . |
| 25 | Interlining for shape |
| 26 | A parcel worth £2. 6s. 8d. at Stony Stratford was held by the executors of the late Sir Edward Belknap . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing , beyond the fact that you do some housekeeping for Alan Dysart at Tyler 's — ’ |
| 28 | She housekeeping for aunt Bessie and the lodger in South Stainmore , and he farming over at North Stainmore . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been wanting a bike for ages , only Daddy has n't been able to manage it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |