Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they rank the checkerboard solution last in other circumstances , in the case of strict liability for manufacturers , for example , they nevertheless believe that internal compromise is wrong , though for reasons that yield when the substantive issue is very grave . |
| 2 | For most Americans the Balkans are a place far away , stocked with people who , for reasons that pass comprehension , delight in murder and mayhem . |
| 3 | Wars that were to end abruptly and , ironically , for reasons that had nothing to do with internal musical divisions . |
| 4 | The Course abandoned the use of triple and quadruple modules at the time of the 1984 CNAA resubmission for reasons that had to do both with inflexibility for student programmes and with the risk of student failure . |
| 5 | FOR reasons that go deep into its past , Hungary has not done well out of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 7 | I could have called it k instead , but for reasons that become apparent in a moment we will be interested in the size of the square root of the number , so I have used |
| 8 | I do n't exactly approve of teacher-pupil relationships , for reasons that do n't need filling in . |
| 9 | In the eyes of some observers , Rio Tinto has become a force in Cornish mining for reasons that have little to do with the profitability of the mines . |
| 10 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 11 | Would my honourable friend be able to explain why it was that in the run up to negotiations with respect to the question of increase in the number of seats er , the German government made it quite clear that they were not interested or did n't want to have the additional number of seats and then subsequently , for reasons that have never been fully explained , we then found that er they had an additional eighteen . |
| 12 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 13 | In any event , the Act makes it clear that it is not unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment ( as defined in the Act ) where it is necessary ‘ for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to , or an immediate danger to the property of , any person ( including the pupil concerned ) ’ . |
| 14 | Buyers were urged to boycott firms which refused to join in by looking for products that bore the NIRA badge : a Blue Eagle with the motto , " We Do Our Part " . |
| 15 | Further , sucralose maintains better acid stability than aspartame , which means a longer shelf life for products that use it . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the problem with the Desktop Division , according to Engels , is that its targets were unrealistic for products that have not yet achieved critical mass . |
| 17 | On-screen presentations can include transitions such as fades and wipes and can be annotated with music or voice segments recorded with SunSoft Inc 's Audio Tool . |
| 18 | We can speak here of the constitutive role of religious beliefs — in the sense that they have constituted an explanation for phenomena that have subsequently proved explicable without theological reference . |
| 19 | So we must look around for phenomena that occur every 150 million years or so . |
| 20 | We then set out to look for contacts that come from sources other than the usual lake fish . |
| 21 | When not debriefing El-Jorr 's subsources and evaluating intelligence data to meet Hurley 's insatiable appetite for maps and quadruplicate reports , Coleman kept track of the other uses to which the pipeline was put . |
| 22 | I wanted to go ashore , ’ she told him through teeth that clattered together unpleasantly . |
| 23 | But your question about ropes and tackle lifting the body is pure nonsense , man ! ’ |
| 24 | Start looking for suits and going away outfits early hopefully , you may find a sale bargain or two . |
| 25 | These decision points can be thought of as nooses that pull together two or more nodes in a tree . |
| 26 | Local residents have sought special legislation to protect the dolphins , an information centre has been built , and now full-time custodians are appointed to act as guardians and to teach the public how to treat the dolphins . |
| 27 | The area of the interface is about 650 2 , which is at the lower end of the range observed for molecules that exist as dimers . |
| 28 | But to get the full benefit of the new tax regime these married women will need to look for investments that pay interest gross . |
| 29 | The first important step was to separate the purchasing and providing functions and devolve services such as personnel and finance to units . |
| 30 | I do n't how many of you have seen or heard reference to the recent Which report about estates and managing that . |