Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it simply that he wished to remain in Istanbul , and , if so , did he wish to do so for professional or for personal reasons ? |
| 2 | Towards the latter part of the first century , Rome 's presiding cleric named Clement wrote on behalf of his church to remonstrate with the Corinthian Christians who had ejected clergy without either financial or charismatic endowment in favour of a fresh lot ; Clement apologized not for intervening but for not having acted sooner . |
| 3 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 4 | For Labour as for ‘ middle opinion ’ as a whole , increased State intervention and central direction went hand in hand with faith in a more rational and ordered treatment of social questions — an essentially technocratic approach — which found its most characteristic expression in the enthusiasm for ‘ planning ’ . |
| 5 | The story of mud is one of a resource that has been excluded not for technical but for social reasons . |
| 6 | The dining room , with its pale marbled walls and black and glass furniture , has survived from its first overhaul as it is only really used for entertaining and for Ella 's piano practice . |
| 7 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 8 | If you are on a low income , you may be able to get dental treatment for free or at a reduced cost . |
| 9 | It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 10 | It has also been proposed that breastfeeding may be less satisfactory for infants born after short than after long intervals , owing to the mother 's diminished ability to provide adequate milk , as deduced from the comparatively poor nutritional status of young children in El Salvador whose birth was preceded by a short interval ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 11 | If he keep going about nervous because of |
| 12 | None of the colony would talk about warm and after a while she stopped asking . |
| 13 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 14 | got the nine oh who said they were less worried about dying than about sex after death ? |
| 15 | We still remain then , for moral as for prudential questions , at the position that imperatives can serve only for judging between spontaneous reactions . |
| 16 | ‘ Be aware ’ therefore prescribes the same neutrality for personal as for spatial and temporal viewpoints ; it refuses a privileged status to ‘ I ’ as to ‘ here ’ and ‘ now ’ . |
| 17 | Thanks to Eva Barnes , Deputy Leader of Labour and to John Cochrane from the Liberal Democrats . |
| 18 | Both within the political wing of Labour and in outside groups within the broader labour movement an identifiable " Left " began to emerge as a major influence . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly these tribunals have been criticized as not being independent of the Ministry of Labour or of the Unemployment Assistance Board . |
| 20 | The class which is defined in relation to buildings , essentially that of private as against public tenure , is not the same as that defined by another division such as profession . |
| 21 | A question which still greatly puzzles utilitarian thinkers , on which Sidgwick seems to have been the first to touch , is whether the utilitarian goal is the maximisation of total or of average welfare . |
| 22 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 23 | I am attracted by Sher ‘ s classification in an article in Forum ( 5 ) of inherent and of circumstantial problems ; given the will both types can be eased . |
| 24 | Among the disadvantages , there may be an artificial limit of activity imposed by the need to work within pre-identified categories , and confusion both between the identification of broad as against specific needs and about the " invitation to identify weakness implies a deficiency-based model for staff development " ( Jones , Clark et al. |
| 25 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 26 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 27 | Of wet and of wildness ? |
| 28 | That is perhaps more of historical than of current scientific interest . |
| 29 | They know they must fill the empty space with movement , whether there is scenery in the background or where the costumes are at their simplest and the background merely a hint of some venue as , for example , in Symphonic Variations or Requiem , or even just shafts of light as in Monotones . |
| 30 | Can most easily be distinguished from Tree Pipit by voice ; legs of adult generally dark flesh-pink , hind claw longer ; those of immature and of Tree Pipit flesh-pink . |