Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus large companies and boards of nationalised industries were provided with enormous financial assistance enabling ( or rather persuading ) them to base their reorganisation on designated development areas which in many cases they would not otherwise have chosen , for reasons of both private and public benefit when judged over the longer run [ Knight , 1974 ; Moore and Rhodes , 1973 ] . |
| 2 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 3 | This involves formal recognition by the American Radio Relay League which administers the prestigious DX Century Club awards for contacts with over 320 ‘ recognised ’ countries . |
| 4 | Rotational structure is , however , rarely resolved except for molecules with only two or three atoms . |
| 5 | For more complicated atoms with more electrons , let alone for molecules with more than one nucleus , we have to resort to approximations and intuitive guesses of doubtful validity . |
| 6 | Our War Diary desk will be open for queries from 10am-4pm every Friday on , ext 2435 . |
| 7 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 8 | In the limit , LTP can be produced in this way between pairs of synaptically coupled neurons . |
| 9 | And for once everyone is falling over themselves to take the Corgis for walkies to out of the way places . |
| 10 | THE most conclusive evidence , to date , in support of a physical link between objects with significantly different red-shifts . ’ |
| 11 | Only Carol Jones ' dogged loyalty had staved off creditors for so long . |
| 12 | I wan na see what they say about Spurs after yesterday . |
| 13 | Except for cases of incurably ill pets , where owner and vet agree that euthanasia is best , the reasons given are as follows , in order of frequency : a ) The client wants the vet to agree that the animal is terminally ill/suffering/too old to treat . |
| 14 | The relatively puny Fascist and Communist movements in Britain gained attention because they were seen as projections of much more important European counterparts . |
| 15 | The Collector 's lips moved but his mind had already wandered away , besieged by practical questions … how would they manage for privies with so many people in the banqueting hall , assuming that they were driven out of the Residency ? |
| 16 | The plan provides for the construction over the next three years of municipal effluent treatment plants in all towns along the river with a population of over 20,000 , the beginning of construction of such plants for cities of more than 50,000 , and the elimination of industrial sources of pollution . |
| 17 | Subsidies would be far better utilised as rewards for environmentally friendly farming methods or for protecting the countryside . |
| 18 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 19 | Mr Parkinson is to meet Sir Robert today for discussions on how to meet the ‘ demanding schedule ’ imposed by Sir Anthony 's recommendations . |
| 20 | Standard quantities of plant and water are used in whichever method is adopted , for times of up to six hours , to take in the various stages required . |
| 21 | Indeed , except for flows at untypically low Reynolds number , even the most powerful current computers can not handle all the data needed for a full numerical analysis of turbulent motion . |
| 22 | But London was a puzzle ; for Bede had told us that in his day it was ‘ a mart of many peoples ’ , a trading centre for merchants from overseas as well as for native traffickers . |
| 23 | The top bills will be only 2.5 times as much as the lowest bills , and the highest band is for houses worth over £160,000 ( $274,000 ) . |
| 24 | The search for houses in both urban and rural areas can be regarded as an unequal competition between groups of people and between people within groups . |
| 25 | His lordship held that , while a provision in a company 's articles that restricted its statutory power to alter those articles was invalid , an agreement outside the articles between shareholders about how they should exercise their voting rights on a resolution to alter the articles was not necessarily invalid . |
| 26 | The EEC wants to limit noise emissions from bikes to 79 decibels , which riders claim will make all air-cooled machines illegal , and also limit power to 100hp for motorcycles with more than 400cc capacity . |
| 27 | It has been shown that during intakes of up to 5 mmol/d most of the sulphate is absorbed in the small intestine and very little is found in ileal effluent although endogenous sources such as mucopolysaccharides provide an unknown additional amount of sulphate . |
| 28 | Drybrough 's , the brewery involved in the venture , pursued the three men for debts of over £40,000 . |
| 29 | The passing of the Insolvent Debtors Act in August 1844 ( 7 & 8 Victoria cap 96 ) , abolishing imprisonment for debts of less than £20 , however , was widely welcomed . |
| 30 | It is , however , plausible to view criminal laws as the outcomes of clashes between groups with structurally generated conflicting interests , and to argue that the legislators ' intention , or if that is too conspiratorial , then the law 's latent function , is to provide the powerful with a resource to reduce further the ability of some groups to resist domination . |