Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before it was light Chola had lit a fire , and was frying puris and boiling a small pan of rice for Sigarup to eat before he left . |
| 2 | Parents whose children were absent for reasons regarded as illegitimate by the school , can seek to avoid confrontation by providing explanations which the school would approve of ( ‘ Amy was absent because she had a stomach upset ’ , for instance ) rather than provide the real reason . |
| 3 | He does n't ask for reasons to believe and he does n't inquire into what is involved . |
| 4 | That 's for mum to know and you to guess . |
| 5 | It 's an unimaginative , misogynistic rehash of Body Heat , with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger substituting inadequately for William Hurt and Kathleen Turner . |
| 6 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 7 | It 's a great place for beginners to learn as the harbour has shallow water — only 40ft at its deepest point — with constant winds and protection from being swept out to sea . |
| 8 | It is therefore very important that schools provide a forum for employers to express and explain their concerns . |
| 9 | The quite complicated allowances for provision of expenditure based on different age groups result in almost no differentiation between authorities suggesting that considerable simplification would be in order . |
| 10 | Currently available for building interfaces that are portable across Motif , Open Look , Apple Mac , Presentation Manager and Windows , a Windows NT version will be shown at Comdex later this month . |
| 11 | This is believed to be the first time that a court of law in any country has declared that scientific evidence establishes cause and effect between exposure to smoke and certain diseases . |
| 12 | The quantification of dust exposure is often difficult but there is some evidence that there is a relationship between exposure to dust and the degree of increased risk of developing gastric cancer . |
| 13 | For Paffard to ask whether a piece of writing is " literature " is to ask whether it is " good " . |
| 14 | Explain in your own words the difference between absorption costing and marginal costing . |
| 15 | Other UN agencies started to throw money at the problems of the territories , for example both Unicef and UNDP provided money for activities selected and overseen by the Israeli authorities , thus — however innocent the intention — allowing aid to become an instrument of control rather than support for independent development . |
| 16 | Drivers had to take a library of documents , including copies of invoices , details about loads carried and transit forms to be stamped at each border crossing . |
| 17 | I challenged the Minister to pick up the telephone and ask the Secretary of State for Defence to say that those houses in Naylor road , Swindon , must now be transferred to the ownership or management of a housing association or the local authority . |
| 18 | … neither suffer them through negligence to mould and be moth-eaten or want their strings and covers . |
| 19 | The plotting routines available in most statistical packages are still rather crude , especially those which rely on the line-printer as their printing device ; plots on machines designed for text mean that the resolution ( i.e. number of subdivisions possible on either the horizontal or vertical axis ) is usually poor ; many values that are in fact different can end up being plotted on the same point . |
| 20 | It did n't take imminence for Jezrael to know that violence was only skin-deep in each of the three men , hidden like lava , waiting to erupt . |
| 21 | Casual workers in particular are paid only for hours worked and usually receive no fringe benefits at all [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 22 | It is not worthwhile chasing non-replies any further for experience shows that where little interest exists at the preliminary stages , the possibility of completing a deal will be small . |
| 23 | In words such as building graduating and nothing it would just be an N on the end like buildin graduatin . |
| 24 | But a night-time break for freedom failed when the escapee triggered the burglar alarm and the school 's security firm called in sharp-eyed PC John Zissler and WPC Tracey Walker to apprehend the fugitive . |
| 25 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 26 | The Series 3000 incorporates automatic calibration of wavelength , transmission and absorbance zeros together with automatic programmes for absorbance ratioing and peak seeking . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Garscadden says that banding protects the rich and the hon. Member for Dagenham says that the Government are clobbering the rich , and still we do not know . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Garscadden complained that the provisions for Scotland and for England were included in the same Bill . |
| 29 | Its use for ornaments meant that it was subject to fairly rapid changes of fashion . |
| 30 | I refer to your letter of 16 November 1992 which sought sites for woodland planting that would attract the Community Woodland Supplement . |