Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They consume , destroy , and devour whole fields , houses and cities For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and dearest wool , there noblemen and gentlemen , yea and certain abbots … leave no ground for tillage . |
| 2 | Taylor was educated at home and at a private day-school , and as apprentice to his father . |
| 3 | Political uncertainty , after the Norse invasions which began in the ninth century , forced a need for protection for which services were given in exchange . |
| 4 | Ray Doyle had bowed to Jack Stone 's pleading request for protection for his family . |
| 5 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |
| 6 | And if you also apply for protection for your spouse or your whole family , you will receive a stylish Pocket Calculator as an extra free gift . |
| 7 | They never kill except for protection of their young , they do n't eat or drink unless they need to : that 's living in harmony . |
| 8 | A concise and informative general consideration of ants and their foraging , nesting and domestic life precedes a detailed examination of the villains of the insect world , the army ants , which ends with a welcome plea for protection of their habitats . |
| 9 | Failure to establish guilt in the criminal court does not preclude consideration of a child 's need for protection in which the child 's welfare will be paramount . |
| 10 | It is only two months since the American arm of Quintex , the media group put together by Australian Christopher Skase , had to file for protection from its creditors under bankruptcy laws . |
| 11 | In 1992 Olympia & York filed for protection from its creditors . |
| 12 | In December 1992 Grupo Torras filed for protection from its creditors , with a net loss for the previous fiscal year of Ptas51 billion ( $190m ) . |
| 13 | Saarstahl , a subsidiary of France 's Usinor Sacilor , filed for protection from its creditors . |
| 14 | Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million . |
| 15 | The US airline Pan American , which had filed in January for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code [ see p. 37953 ] , saw its prospects improve with an acceptance by the United Kingdom government ( confirmed on March 11 ) that it could in effect sell its rights to routes into London 's Heathrow airport to United Airlines for $290,000,000 ; United began its Heathrow services on April 5 . |
| 16 | Danger , from the Piaroa point of view , is from the predatory activities of beings from other worlds , and the responsibility for protection from them is in the hands of the shamanic ruwatu . |
| 17 | After months of teetering on the brink , David Reed has filed for protection from his creditors . |
| 18 | This is perhaps nowhere more clearly seen than in Inca Peru where the Inca monarch headed an authoritarian welfare state in which his monopoly of the economic surplus , along with his military and policy power , meant that the citizen looked only to him for protection from his fellow men and from hunger , want and hardship . |
| 19 | Petitions to the Admiralty for remuneration for his discovery brought nothing . |
| 20 | An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf . |
| 21 | Ian Stewart warned them not to overload , in his speech as chairman at their 1989 Conference . |
| 22 | He continued as chairman until his death . |
| 23 | As Hilary steps down as Chairman after what has proved to be a difficult and latterly sad term of office , Betty welcomed June Bascombe , who after two years as Vice-Chairman , a vantage point from which she has glimpsed what might be involved , has bravely accepted nomination as chairman and has been elected . |
| 24 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 25 | Basil realised that there was a whole lot more to education than training for livelihood with its over-emphasis on examinations . |
| 26 | The pressure for change to which intellectuals were subjecting the government was perhaps best illustrated by the fact that on the right of the political spectrum even Mikhail Pogodin , the philosopher of Official Nationality , fell out with the authorities in the course of the war . |
| 27 | Individual approaches recognize either the school or the classroom as the significant unit for change and ideally take both into account , for change in one is unlikely to happen without change in the other ( Easen , 1985 ; Slater , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | Such pedagogies appear to meet the crude , externally visible criteria for professional success , and the lack of collegial reflection or criticism provides no impetus for change in them either . |
| 29 | These great events , the zeitgeist mood they engender , large in themselves as stages in history , carry with them an enormous potential for change in our daily lives . |
| 30 | They have worked for change within it by , for example , the formation of feminist groups of health workers and professionals , campaigns for more woman-centred services , promoting equal opportunity policies for employees and campaigns to protect abortion rights . |