Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not , he answered , through want of trying : clubs were either unwilling to sell so early in the season , or were asking too high a fee . |
| 2 | While it is true that no major changes have been made to the constitution , this is not through want of trying . |
| 3 | ‘ If they do n't know by 1 April , it wo n't be through want of trying , ’ says Walters . |
| 4 | The plea for rigour in selecting counsellors accords oddly with the conclusion that no benefit has been shown from the services that they provide . |
| 5 | Equally important , the need for rigour in approaching a problem of this sort came across nicely . |
| 6 | J.M. Sinclair put forward at Coloma College ( and elsewhere in print ) an analogy between preparation for teaching and for a range of medical and para medical employment . |
| 7 | Mr Hamilton submitted that there were situations where injuries could continue to be sustained , such as damage to hearing from excessive noise levels over a lengthy period . |
| 8 | In the meantime , snail-like creatures grew stronger carapaces for protection against drying out . |
| 9 | The remaining anonymous respondent wrote of the ‘ normal contractual requirements , good management and good conditions of employment ’ as the only strategy for protection against poaching . |
| 10 | Most of the work done with the patient standing up aims to make his selective movements of better quality as preparation for making steps . |
| 11 | It is convenient that , in addition to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence , the Cabinet should include at least one , and preferably two , Ministers without Departmental duties who can act as Chairman of Standing Committees . |
| 12 | In the above paragraphs a distinction was made between assessment for teaching and learning purposes and assessment for purposes external to the classroom . |
| 13 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 14 | He points to some of the planned sessions which together constitute a ‘ business stream ’ , beginning with an opening session which , he says , ‘ starts on the basis of , forget IT , what are the critical success factors of your business ? ’ , and is then followed on the next day by looking at how to manage for change by establishing an IT corporate policy . |
| 15 | Villagers are being shown how to lobby for change by learning how to write press releases , organise protests and run clean-up campaigns . |
| 16 | Today America must be able to look to Europe for support in containing less predictable threats to the values they have in common from outside Europe . |
| 17 | Izetbegovic appealed to Turkey and the EC for support in resisting Serbian plans to divide up Bosnia-Hercegovina between Serbia and Croatia with a Moslem buffer state between the two , a proposal in which Tudjman had also expressed interest . |
| 18 | The essence of the proposal was a request to the ILEA for funds to second one of the school 's teaching staff for a period of seven terms , and for support in obtaining an outside consultant , secretarial assistance , and advice from various agencies including the ILEA 's Research and Statistics personnel and university researchers . |
| 19 | So , in 1125 , when Clito 's violation of the Ypres fair peace provided an excuse , the burghers of Ghent sent to Bruges for support in pressing the claims of Thierry of Alsace . |
| 20 | The Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Appeal , which is one of two official charities nominated by the 1991 IAAF ADT London Marathon , is appealing to clubs for support in raising funds through sponsorship . |
| 21 | acting as official or sponsoring broker for admission to listing on LSE or USM |
| 22 | Er we want to er develop a training programme for part of selling skills training programme for partners and senior senior managers , senior er members of staff . |
| 23 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 24 | Though he was to fail in his exploitation of this , it was not for want of seeking to undermine national self-confidence through sardonic innuendo or weaken the will to resist by boasts of the invincible military initiative now held by the Wehrmacht . |
| 25 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 26 | This was n't for want of trying . |
| 27 | The epitome of Nineties value rather than volume has become just that , after having been not terribly good at being the Eighties thrusting stereotype — though not for want of trying . |
| 28 | Though the archival evidence shows that if the Masai did not change it was not for want of trying on the part of the administration , it was convenient in some quarters to suppose that it was . |
| 29 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 30 | Although the Church was slow off the mark following the population migration and concentration in the expanding towns during the Industrial Revolution , failure has not been for want of trying . |