Example sentences of "[prep] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , i it was a terrible brief point about clad in jodhpurs , riding boots and hacking jacket but all the point that I was going to make that I 've heard about riding roughshod over Europe but Mr Deputy Speaker this is ridiculous , I the er the honourable |
| 2 | According to US press reports on May 18 , President George Bush had the previous week overruled the wishes of the Environmental Protection Agency and given industry a major concession over the implementation of the Clean Air Act as amended in November 1990 [ see p. 37847 ] . |
| 3 | Many of the noxious or offensive gases , at present listed in s.27(1) of the 1906 Act as amended by Regulation 4 , Schedule 2 of 1983 , S.I . |
| 4 | Section 38 of the 1954 Act as amended by s 5 of the Law of Property Act , 1969 provides for application to the court for the court 's approval to an agreement excluding the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 5 | What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes . |
| 6 | Does anybody understand vaguely what Clare 's talking about heard of this example . |
| 7 | He advises that while the unit backs onto our store , as a self-contained unit , it should continue to be available for let on the open market . |
| 8 | Sometimes a large coloured dot ( red for stop ) is used to emphasise when there are no rooms available for let in a certain category . |
| 9 | The hilltop we were aiming for looked like an angry volcano . |
| 10 | The first four sections of Chapter II of Part VII replace , with amendments , the concessions to smaller companies originally afforded by the 1981 Act as permitted by the Fourth Company Law Directive . |
| 11 | Treasurer Keating had used high interest rates as his main weapon in the struggle to reduce the country 's current account deficit , but they had been for blamed for contributing to the loss of business confidence . |
| 12 | In all the discussion of this subsection , we are assuming that , after input to the computer , the data will form a named file in the backing store . |
| 13 | We asked principal carers , therefore , which of a list of symptoms the person they cared for suffered from . |
| 14 | But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds . |
| 15 | I think that the things that are taken for granted at home , make a deeper impression upon children than what they are told . |
| 16 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |
| 17 | So we aim to provide some of the luxuries which most of us tend to take for granted at this time of year . ’ |
| 18 | Last January 's shock FA Cup exit against Wrexham acts as a sharp reminder that they can take nothing for granted at Scarborough . |
| 19 | Monarchy was as widely taken for granted at the end of the nineteenth century as is universal suffrage today . |
| 20 | She is a kind and thoughtful provider — of home comfort , food , clean sheets , ironed shirts , fresh bread — all the things you take for granted at home . ’ |
| 21 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 22 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 23 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 24 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 25 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 26 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 27 | We take these for granted as common sense . |
| 28 | The principle of paraphrase ( or " same meaning in different form " ) is one which many schools of linguistic thought continue to take for granted as a basic fact of language . |
| 29 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |
| 30 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |