Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |
| 2 | That just is n't so , for reasons of both dubious statistics and benign intent . |
| 3 | For reasons of this nature , the sentences in 13–16 will be considered to exemplify only pseudo-synonymy . |
| 4 | So again for reasons like that , we have to maintain the confidence of the client . |
| 5 | It is essentially for reasons like these that the governments of the new democracies of Eastern Europe look to privatization as a way forward . |
| 6 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 7 | For reasons like these , it would seem a dangerous policy to ignore the processing of non-words entirely in one 's theorising about the organisation of the mental lexicon ; hence we must consider now what the mechanisms might be that people use when processing non-lexical verbal stimuli ( spoken or written non-words ) . |
| 8 | We can feed them information on Russian intentions in exchange for scraps like this tip about the Bonnard car . ’ |
| 9 | Surely the hears , minds and souls of people who love the hills are potent forces for good because they see themselves as guardians of these beautiful places ? |
| 10 | Sections 61 and 62 of the Act provide remedies for contraventions of these , and other , statutory prohibitions and regulations . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is through data collection and searching for patterns in those data that theory is elaborated . |
| 12 | Would nt it be better for clubs in this sort of situation to be able to loan young players on an extended basis . |
| 13 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , other elements of prison life are equally important , such as the amount of time prisoners are kept cooped up in cells and the lack of opportunities for activities of all kinds . |
| 14 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 15 | Also Landseer came to Green 's rescue on this , his favourite subject , and wrote in the New London Review , ‘ It does not appear that the landed proprietors among these mountains , feel a necessity for improvements of this sort , by the havoc that is displayed in the felling of their woods and coppices . ’ |
| 16 | It does say so with scope for improvements in that one . |
| 17 | They are popularly associated with Christmas , but have great value for musicians in all kinds of music . |
| 18 | It is through patterns like this that most adults learn something of attachment and separation . |
| 19 | My main reason for not introducing elliptic integrals here ( you can though attempt Examples 3.9–3.11 if you wish to have some experience in handling them ) is that I do not want to burden your memory with new formulae , and besides , for cases of most practical interest ( the field far away from the ring and in the vicinity of the axis ) eqn ( 3.56 ) may be integrated out , as will be presently seen . |
| 20 | It is for cases of this kind , where the evidence shows that there was active persuasion rather than compassionate assistance to someone already determined to commit suicide , that a substantial maximum penalty is thought necessary . |
| 21 | In the notes at the back of the book Gordon explains how he waited for hours for that one photo . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton . |
| 23 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 24 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 25 | Winifred had sat for hours in those early days on the sofa , next to Marcus , who moved away , and like a parody of a mad religious discipline , abbreviated his answers , elongated his silences , until he had imposed on his mother a similar pattern of behaviour . |
| 26 | Garry Watson , in attacking the new pluralism from a Leavisian perspective , offers two exemplary passages by contemporary academic critics which may serve as illustrations of this trend : |
| 27 | For illustrations of this and other methods , see page 67 . |
| 28 | Let be the planned rate of money supply growth and be the private sector 's expected rate of planned money supply growth , then the standard form for preferences in this game are : |
| 29 | So I do n't know whether they 'd been sending them away , to be er as patterns to some other firm or what , but there was quite a quant there was er a quantity of of casting sand you know black stuff that you use . |
| 30 | In 1820 Sir Frederick Adam published his Survey of the State of the Poor , in which he showed that throughout the shires rates of pay for labourers of all types were low , and that many families lived on small quantities of wheaten or barley bread , skimmed milk , cheese , potatoes and legumes , meat hardly ever figuring in their diet . |