Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only conflict about housing land in Cramlington during the preparation and revision of the Northumberland Structure Plan was about releases in relation to total numbers . |
| 2 | But there was no fail-safe way to dress for outings in Roman 's company . |
| 3 | The ‘ Auxiliary ’ section has three jacks : ‘ Tuner ’ , which can be used either for plugging in an electronic tuner or as a non-effects direct out ; ‘ Phones ’ which is self-explanatory ; and ‘ Mastercontrol ’ , a special socket for use with a volume pedal — very useful for electro-acoustics without onboard volume controls , or even violins or mandolins . |
| 4 | Religion is presented as a response ‘ everywhere to one and the same need ’ : the need for rituals of fertility . |
| 5 | It was Gibbon 's opinion that Trajan 's conquest of Dacia was maintained for reasons of prestige , and that it contributed to the weakening of the empire . |
| 6 | None the less , it is clear that research in the polytechnics will continue to grow , if only for reasons of prestige , and the same trend is discernible in some of the colleges of higher education . |
| 7 | A refugee is ‘ a person who , owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race , religion , membership of a particular social group or political opinion , is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or , owing to such fear , unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country ’ , according to the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees . |
| 8 | So for reasons of logic and fairness you ought to say his or her . |
| 9 | For reasons of flexibility , technical merit , and overall lower cost , we recommend purchase of the following equipment from Audio-Visual Consultants : |
| 10 | The preliminary draft of Article 1 did in fact contain , in the English text only , an explanatory gloss to the word ‘ evidence ’ as ‘ including the taking of statements of witnesses , parties or experts and the production or examination of documents or other objects or property ’ ; its eventual omission was for reasons of style rather than of substance . |
| 11 | Perhaps we should not look for too deep a political explanation : ostracism was for the man whose leadership had been rejected — which might happen for reasons of style rather than content — and whose disapproving presence was an obstruction and a reproach . |
| 12 | Market research data shows that buyers choose Clio above other superminis for reasons of style , equipment , comfort , spaciousness , manoeuvrability and publicity . |
| 13 | For reasons of simplicity ( and ornithological necessity ) the whole of Chichester Harbour is considered as being within Sussex for the purpose of wildfowl and wader counts . |
| 14 | Strictly speaking , collocations represent syntagmatic and paradigmatic knowledge rather than semantic , but it is argued that they represent the implicit application of syntactic , semantic and pragmatic knowledge [ Sharman , 1990 ] , and for reasons of simplicity have been referred to as a source of semantic information . |
| 15 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 16 | Each new proposal by CSM to improve its machinery for ‘ promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reactions ’ has , according to Professor David Finney of Edinburgh University , a member of CSM , been ‘ refused , or delayed indefinitely , for reasons of cost ’ ( Times , 21 August 1982 ) . |
| 17 | The Arrowana has representatives in South America ( Osteoglossidae ) , Africa ( Heterotis ) and Southern Asia/Australia ( Scleropages ) , but for reasons of cost and availability , we will only be concerned with the South American species . |
| 18 | Third , partly for reasons of cost , almost all the expansion was taken up by fairly short courses ( five to ten days , with limited options for follow-on courses of a further ten days ) , largely taught in local authority technical colleges . |
| 19 | The Air Force , again for reasons of cost , wants them based at existing missile sites in Wyoming , whence they would flee when a crisis loomed . |
| 20 | Although it may hold back for reasons of cost and supply , and because the housing market is static , during this decade I believe we will see an increasing spread of relocation moves to those parts of the country which offer a better quality of life than London and the South-East . ’ |
| 21 | Also for reasons of anonymity , I adopt neutral terms to define the pollution control district officers , referring to them as ‘ field officers ’ or ‘ field men ’ . |
| 22 | Not used for reasons of catchment area and likely cost . |
| 23 | This may be necessary for reasons of motivation , innate intelligence , interests , time for study , time of arrival into class as well as the students ' linguistic abilities . |
| 24 | The hallmarks of Thomas à Kempis 's approach to the religious life are a rigorous inner self-discipline and a conformity , for reasons of humility , to the existing forms of Christianity as met from day to day wherever you happen to be . |
| 25 | ‘ A double agent can be tripled ’ — or , presumably by the same token , quadrupled or quintupled — since he does n't necessarily know where one stage ends and the next begins , particularly in the case of a Russian who has left the pre-Glasnost USSR not for reasons of ideology , but for the chance to work out his physical theories on an up-to-date computer . |
| 26 | It is , however , not very easy to undertake population or community studies of disease for reasons of practicality . |
| 27 | To arrive at some truth and , for reasons of state , deception is also practised and accepted by society . |
| 28 | The FPÖ , which supported the legislation only " for reasons of state " , would reportedly have preferred legislation which also covered crimes committed by all totalitarian regimes including Stalinist communist ones . |
| 29 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 30 | Whilst in many cases firms with more than 20 partners will for reasons of publicity wish to set out their names on the firm 's documentation , there is no compulsion for them so to do ( and beyond a certain number it obviously becomes impracticable ) . |