Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rally of the Guinean People , the Guinean Party of Progress and the Union for the New Republic announced on Oct. 8 the formation of an opposition alliance , the Front for Struggle and for Government ; the main aim of the front was to press for the postponement of legislative elections scheduled for November , in order that a national conference could be held beforehand . |
| 2 | In the debate about restoration scripture could be quoted both for rigour and for mercy . |
| 3 | Le Monde of Feb. 3 described the " sudden conversion " of Modrow ( who had previously stressed that reunification was not on the agenda ) as a response to rising popular pressure for reunification and to the continuing exodus of East Germans to West Germany . |
| 4 | The novena was organised by the Our Lady of Pity Sanctity of Life Group , and was a response to the desperate need for prayer and for education of life issues . |
| 5 | NHAs , like the present NSAs , will rely not on tighter legislation for protection but on voluntary agreements with landowners — where Sites of Special Scientific Interest can be contested , de-registered and exploited by , for example , mining , and where future access to the hills may well be subject to the same uncertainty . |
| 6 | Some smaller carnivores such as mongooses are colonial , social , and highly altruistic , using group burrows for protection and as a refuge from which they then forage . |
| 7 | But for once I was grateful he was around , both as company for Mum and as an irritant for Auntie Jean . |
| 8 | In the press conference accompanying the 1988 launch , the Prime Minister made a statement reiterating this argument : Action for Cities was not about new resources nor new policies , but about co-ordination and about building on apparent strengths ( Platt and Lewis , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | But last night other umpires stressed that Oslear had not been sacked as chairman because of his battle to support Lamb . |
| 10 | Where the extreme view differs from more moderate views is in playing down — or even ignoring — crucial differences between the contexts of learning that obtain for oral and for written language , and between the language modes themselves . |
| 11 | This , in turn , will cause us to address the broader issue of whether there is , in a more general sense , a genuine , causal association between insanity and at least some forms of creativity ; and , if that is so , what it can tell us about the underlying qualities of psychosis and of the creative process . |
| 12 | War conditions added to the general impetus for change but at the same time they also inhibited change . |
| 13 | This impatience led to an overestimation of the potential for change and to premature and ill-fated attempts to force its pace . |
| 14 | On the surface , the Conservative victory of 1979 seemed to blunt the case for change and in a 1981 Commons debate on the British constitution the minister of state at the Home Office boldly put the case for no change , arguing that " this is a time when we should stand up for our great tradition of parliamentary democracy … |
| 15 | The act itself was the product of demands for change because of the limited impact of the 1832 Act and because of more immediate political considerations . |
| 16 | He glanced at Nina for support but by this time she was staring at the ground . |
| 17 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 18 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 19 | So th th th there 's , there 's a heightened need for support because of the the nature of the civil war now , and , and they are under quite substantial pressure and therefore you need to mobilize the population behind you and to get that mobilization you , you 've got to offer more struggle fruits to the peasants and absolute egalitarianism is the way to offer them the maximum . |
| 20 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 21 | Peloponnesian and Cretan sculptors work at first not in marble but in local limestones ; later sometimes in marble imported from the Cyclades , but the softer and more readily available stone is long used everywhere for building and for architectural sculpture . |
| 22 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 23 | A disinfectant is a chemical product used for disinfection and despite the association of the term with hospitals , toilets and drains disinfection is a vital part of modern food practice . |
| 24 | His knowledge of Scotland , its people , and its countryside proved to be invaluable when talking about whisky and from an early age he became an acknowledged and accomplished voice of the industry . |
| 25 | This effect is doubtless less for victor than for vanquished , but the victor will not be spared it . |
| 26 | Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the Democrats still held the House and the 1980 election result was at best ambiguous , representing neither a vote for conservatism nor for liberalism . |
| 28 | At the end of the garden were the two chicken houses , a run for daytime and to the right the sleeping quarters with a tiny window about a foot square . |
| 29 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 30 | I am sure that the hon. and learned Gentleman knows the considerable steps that have been taken by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and by the Minister of State for the Armed Forces to deal with the aftermath of that tragic incident . |