Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 2 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 3 | The commodities produced in the new international division of labour are , above all , to be exported and imported either by trade between merchants on the world market or by transfer ( as semi-finished parts of finished articles ) from one branch of a multinational corporation to another branch . |
| 4 | His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City . |
| 5 | In 1900 he received a regular commission as lieutenant in the 6th battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers . |
| 6 | In 1822 he was commissioned as lieutenant in the 9th Royal Dragoons , transferring to the 12th Lancers in 1826 . |
| 7 | He played soccer for Middlesbrough in the immediate post-war years and , in 1950 , moved to Portsmouth where he played professionally until 1958 , after which he drifted away from the club never to contact Portsmouth again ( W. J. B. Davis , Portsmouth FC Secretary , personal communication , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Hitler had stood for resistance to a cancer spreading across Europe . |
| 9 | Hence , in the mouths of conservative lawyers , we catch an appeal to the radical doctrine of the sovereignty of the nation ; it alone could provide a theoretical basis for resistance to a French king whose claim was legally established by the formal abdication of both Ferdinand VII and his father . |
| 10 | One reason for resistance to the new paradigm was the sheer impossibility of convincing geologists in the traditional way : by convening on an outcrop and hammering out the evidence . |
| 11 | This involved the translocation of the gene responsible for resistance to the carbamate insecticide propoxur on to the male-Y-chromosome so that only the males were resistant . |
| 12 | Through this people God called for resistance to the great rebel and usurper of the world . |
| 13 | Horses often display these signs when asked to perform a difficult movement , and will be marked down for resistance in a dressage test . |
| 14 | SIR , — Dr Jha and colleagues ( May 1 , p 1116 ) report antibodies against human papillomavirus ( HPV ) 16 E7 peptide ( originally reported by Mueller et al ) among women who had been diagnosed with cervical carcinoma on average 4 years before being contacted for donation of a serum sample . |
| 15 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |
| 16 | According to Durex , whose condoms account for 80% of the British market , purchases made by women have risen steadily over the past 10 years . |
| 17 | The Autoglide can even be used on trackless doors of the canopy variety , which account for 80% of the garage doors installed in the UK , and which conventional garage door openers can not cope with The Autoglide works on a cable principle , with an advanced electronic control box . |
| 18 | They accounted for 80% of the prenatal diagnoses in mothers under 35 and 25% of such diagnoses in older women , for whom maternal age is still the most common indication although in these the use of serum screening is increasing . |
| 19 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 20 | Although you are all for outings with a pack , you will have to be content with your lot for now . |
| 21 | Like any other young couple they teamed up for outings to the beach , for barbecues with friends , or visits to the cinema . |
| 22 | That 's entrance for look at the back . |
| 23 | It is difficult to compare the success of different systems , for reasons including the following : |
| 24 | These include situations where there are competing bids , or where the acquisition is prohibited by the merger control authorities , or where a condition of the bid announced in the offer document is not fulfilled or , exceptionally , where the bid may not be put into effect for reasons beyond the control of the parties to the bid . |
| 25 | If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner . |
| 26 | A claim for group relief will be accepted outside the statutory two-year time limit where one of the following can be demonstrated : the Inland Revenue contributed materially to the failure to submit a timely claim ; for reasons beyond his or her control , a person vitally concerned in the making of a claim was not available at a crucial time ; for reasons beyond the claimant company 's or its agent 's control , the need for the claim could not have been perceived before the time limit expires , and the claim was made as soon as reasonably possible in all the circumstances . |
| 27 | Scotland was an unhappy country in the late seventeenth century , partly for reasons beyond the control of politicians or merchants ; the climate grew steadily harsher , for these were the worst years of the ‘ little ice age ’ that ran from 1500 to 1850 and must have had some general effect of encouraging emigration from Europe . |
| 28 | Paragraphs 474–489 of the Latey Report make it clear that doctors felt difficulty in accepting the consent of someone under 21 ( the then age of majority ) to medical treatment , even though parental consent might be unobtainable or , for reasons of the minor 's privacy , undesirable . |
| 29 | The special features of such a protective system , provided for reasons of the vastly increased significance of its failure , thus render it more vulnerable than would otherwise be the case . |
| 30 | Similar divisions among the nobility , and the confusion into which it seems to have thrown the English leaders , might well explain why national armies were raised infrequently and achieved little , especially if there was dispute over the best policy to adopt , for reasons of the sort outlined above . |