Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is thought to be preferable , this is for reasons having nothing to do with neutrality , such as a desire to bring the war to a speedy end or not to allow people to profit from wars . |
| 2 | Scientists take their side in the battle for reasons having nothing to do with the merits or lack of them of the issues but rather because of their politics . |
| 3 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 4 | For many purposes it is convenient for biologists to focus their attention at the level of the vehicle . |
| 5 | Though it is too early for beginners to concern themselves with the relationship between musical forms and mathematics , the often surprising exactness in the relative proportions of musical sections , and even between movements , may be mentioned here . |
| 6 | Would not the best course of action be for employers to dismiss anyone who has addictive disease ? |
| 7 | The Confederation of British Industry after examining the extra work for employers described themselves as ‘ horrified ’ at the thought of LIT ( Layfield 1976 , App 8:249 ) . |
| 8 | Industry does not stand still and the trend nowadays is for employers to expect their employees to respond positively to the demands of the enterprise . |
| 9 | They offered the chance for specifiers to turn their imaginative ideas into reality . |
| 10 | To meet this requirement , it will be necessary for weighers to keep their own record of tare weighings carried out , including time of taring and where removable parts , eg. sides , rear boards , tarpaulins , sacks , etc. are in use , whether these parts are included in the tare . |
| 11 | Her choice made , she went back for vegetables to accompany it , recklessly adding a demi-kilo of the huge firm-fleshed tomatoes , as well as nectarines , oranges and a punnet of strawberries to her collection . |
| 12 | It was an age in which all classes of society were expanding , in which men from every walk of life who enjoyed adventure and travel could find new opportunities as merchants to invest their talents at a large rate of interest . |
| 13 | You do n't have to be regular cyclist to enjoy a cycling holiday in Holland as the safe , segregated cycle lanes have special traffic lights and signposts for cyclists making it a relaxing and enjoyable pastime for people of all ages ; families , couples , or groups of friends . |
| 14 | It was the tradition in the family for sons to serve their time at sea , and then to command the company 's ships . |
| 15 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 16 | With the advent of GIS , it will be increasingly possible for non-cartographers to produce their own maps . |
| 17 | Assistance in all these areas would provide the chance for musicians to develop their own potential and to discover whether there is an audience for their music . |
| 18 | Only watching the sea for hours calmed her . |
| 19 | Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality , slapping it down , groaning . |
| 20 | We 'll be here for hours bet your life upon it |
| 21 | British custom string manufacturers Newtone will talk to you for hours explaining their new range of Burns strings . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'll have to look for hours to find our spaceship . ’ |
| 23 | The simplest way around this is for artists to get their assistants to sign over the reproduction rights before work begins . |
| 24 | We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements . |
| 25 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 26 | While it was clear that as long as unanimity or qualified majorities were required , it was possible , as several of the member states were to do , for states to drag their heels and delay a programme . |
| 27 | This will take time to catch soaring turnover — up from £72million to £142million — as the group pays fees to BT and other international carriers for calls using their lines . |
| 28 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 29 | John Louis is still searching for riders to complete his 1993 team . |
| 30 | Access problems are also emerging at Heptonstall Quarry where the bowling and social club have complained about climbers using their car park . |