Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bright Yorkshire prospect Adil Ditta scored 58 for Middlesbrough but they too had to fight hard for runs and were into the last over before they achieved their win by a four wicket margin . |
| 2 | But there was only misery for Middlesbrough as their treble hopes went up in smoke with a 4–2 defeat at home to Portsmouth in their replay . |
| 3 | It 's clear from my inquiries that the FA originally envisaged Wednesday , September 9 as a triumphant homecoming for Taylor and his assistant Lawrie McMenemy — ‘ Just put your feet up and watch us win . ’ |
| 4 | Abundant evidence suggests that the landlord is a rugby buff his son plays for Waterloo and he also keeps 60 or 70 malt whiskies , on a shelf with the sub-title ‘ Medicine for men . ’ |
| 5 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 6 | The scheme was ahead if its time in providing pensions for seamen and their widows as well as short term relief . |
| 7 | When he reached 120 matches in January , Gray had played more first-class games for Wellington than anyone else for a NZ province , in a career which began in 1975–76 . |
| 8 | They generally , for reasons that we shall come to , gang together into large communal survival machines or ‘ vehicles ’ . |
| 9 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 10 | For reasons that we shall discuss in Chapter 9 , the members of a colony of social insects co-operate with one another , and they will therefore give signal that are as informative as possible ; they will not usually give deceptive signals to fellow members of their colony . |
| 11 | One possible answer is to say that God chose the initial configuration of the universe for reasons that we can not hope to understand . |
| 12 | I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism . |
| 13 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |
| 14 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 15 | For reasons that no-one can yet explain , teetotal Leslie 's Rolls-Royce careered off the M5 motorway , mounted an embankment and flipped onto its roof . |
| 16 | I told Harold that I did not approve of the appointment , but for reasons that he would not greatly appreciate . |
| 17 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 18 | ‘ For reasons that I can not understand , ’ he continued , ‘ we in Britain seem to have a negative response to winners . |
| 19 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 20 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 21 | None of that , for reasons that I have already explained , is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal . |
| 22 | The only increase smaller than the £15 is in what is known as the terminal illness category for nursing homes , for reasons that I explained to the House in my uprating statement , where we have instead thought it more appropriate to make , through the Department of Health , an additional grant of £1 million specifically directed to the funding of hospices . |
| 23 | I am glad to have the chance of following the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Select Committee , although I strongly disagree with his suggestions , for reasons that I have given before and hope to repeat this evening . |
| 24 | This is known , for reasons that I 'll point out in a second , as a macroscopic technique , and the currents were usually identified through replacement of ions selectively , and of course this can generally be done only in the external medium , because you do n't have control over the internal medium . |
| 25 | Now I personally felt that it would be quite inhumane to deal with someone who was somewhere near the magic 60 cut-off , for reasons that it would be impossible to examine with any clarity the reasons for this change of heart , and the strong will that he had shown during his previous operational record . |
| 26 | Just for reasons that it 'll draw better if I open it . |
| 27 | A child is not born for reasons and it will not fit even the prettiest box assigned to it by its determined providers . |
| 28 | If there is a low demand for products and plenty of time , the craftsman has no need to organize or rationalize his activities . |
| 29 | Sadie would raid the bins for scraps when she could — perhaps her diet of rabbits needed to be supplemented . |
| 30 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |