Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are no reasons for not looking through the accounts , and making sure that all we can give is turned to real advantage . |
| 2 | John Hogan , managing director of LASMO North Sea , cited low oil prices , coupled with the marginal economic yield from the project , as the principal reasons for not continuing with the project at the moment . |
| 3 | Health : THE CASE FOR NOT MEDDLING WITH THE NHS Whoever wins on Thursday , the only hope for the future of the health service lies in a period of stability , says Christine Doyle |
| 4 | There may be considerable scepticism about Pascal 's case for always wagering on the outsider if the odds are high enough . |
| 5 | Many slimmers make this an excuse for not sticking to the diet , but I find it much easier being away from the kitchen and the kettle ! |
| 6 | The mere fact that he did not have all the information could not be an excuse for not complying with the notice under s 8 , TMA 1970 . |
| 7 | Malaysia leave the field after narrowly losing to an accomplished Tunisian seven ( 14–10 ) in the semi-finals after losing their pool match 22–0 to the same side . |
| 8 | TOP referee Ray Lewis is being investigated by the Football Association for allegedly swearing at a supporter and faces disciplinary action . |
| 9 | The Communist parties inevitably lost credibility as a result of staunchly adhering to the Comintern line throughout the series of volte-face involved in the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 and the subsequent German invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941 . |
| 10 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |
| 11 | A similar estoppel could be raised by conduct : if the client adopts a practice of not insisting on the strict letter of its terms , its conduct may be held to create an estoppel in the same way as a statement of the effect of the terms . |
| 12 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 13 | Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident . |
| 14 | It is her methods , and those of the other anthropologists mentioned , that are our major interest here , but this problem does highlight , at an early stage , one of the basic drawbacks of ethnography — the impossibility of ever checking on the findings of such research by exactly repeating it . |
| 15 | So what 's the pleasure of just roaring up a hill ? |
| 16 | Similarly , she explains , for the Bororos of Brazil the normal pattern is to refer to a participant by using a noun several times in succession before eventually shifting into a pronominal form . |
| 17 | They were paid by these , and by the pennies of helpless men and women who might be forced to cross half of a strange continent before even embarking on the Atlantic crossing : from central Europe to Le Havre , or across the North Sea and via the smoky Pennine valleys to Liverpool . |
| 18 | All Governments have failed in many respects in not giving to the British Council and the BBC World Service the resources that they merit . |
| 19 | We 've continued to keep a very hard view of the corn exchange and a number of other bodies which we fund , but we 're going to see what actually happens , we 're not going to make blind predictions about savings without actually going into the facts . |
| 20 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
| 21 | The mother will protect it from predators , such as eagles , and will try to ensure that it does n't fall down the mountainside by always standing on the downhill side of it . |
| 22 | For example a chemist will learn about compounds by laboriously memorising as a student the properties of each one separately but eventually sets of compounds are perceived as a pattern and thereafter all the relevant material is readily available because it fits together neatly . |
| 23 | The majority of archaeological finds are broken , damaged or decayed , and it is usually difficult to envisage what a site looked like in its heyday by simply looking at the excavated remains . |
| 24 | On 24 April a team of about 10 began to sort the books by then accumulating in the Davidson Room . |
| 25 | THE idea of a computer whizz-kid gaining access to classified data by accidentally brushing against the right button is the stuff of fantasy , according to a security consultant at the National Computing Centre in Manchester . |
| 26 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 27 | Paddy Ashdown has an egg salad in a saffron mayonnaise on a bed of very curly green frisee lettuce — saffron being a much-used ingredient in the West Country ; this has the advantage of also doubling as a dish for the Green party . |
| 28 | The advantage of normally proceeding through the mediation of rules is enormous . |
| 29 | they were in one sense still asleep and unable to know about their sexual organs , using the defence of not knowing against an anxiety aroused by the prospect of copulation . |
| 30 | And so it would be a case of actually negotiating with the council hopefully ? |