Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ … |
| 2 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 3 | Crippled with arthritis and wheelchair-bound , at 77 Renoir detested meeting strangers but he had heard about Modigliani from Osterlind and , almost certainly , from Zborowski and agreed to the visit . |
| 4 | 63% of those managing directors and IT directors interviewed had heard of DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer programme , with 47% having read or heard about aspects of Open Systems through DTI material — beating ‘ Technical Press ’ ( 44% ) into second place . |
| 5 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 6 | She had heard about Greg from her mother-in-law , and had conceived various lively suspicions . |
| 7 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 8 | Yet were we taught about Crapper at school ? |
| 9 | Now eight or nine-year-olds are being taught about periods in schools . |
| 10 | The Pope urges that students in seminaries should be taught about sex in seminaries . |
| 11 | But is it really a good idea that students should be taught about sex in seminaries ? |
| 12 | And three quarters want to be taught about relationships as part of their sex education too . |
| 13 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 14 | For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother 's side of the family , the mother 's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew . |
| 15 | However , the Board has been criticized for over-concentration on economic development at the expense of social development ( Carter 1974 ) . |
| 16 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 17 | Sociolinguists who present their data using the simple graphs and frequency tables popularized by Labov in his early work have often been criticized for lack of statistical sophistication . |
| 18 | The study has been criticized for incompleteness of data , but it was a major step forward , and the results obtained were so positive that further research was stimulated . |
| 19 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |
| 20 | This process of appraisal is often developed through reference to empirical changes in the processes being analysed . |
| 21 | They were schools , therefore , where progress in matching library provision to curriculum need had already begun , and where it was hoped that this impetus could be further developed through participation in the project and a grant in the region of £2,500 . |
| 22 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 23 | Productivity through people : people are seen as the sole basis for success which is developed through respect for the individual expressed through trust . |
| 24 | In central and eastern Europe remedial measures must be taken to clear up environmental problems developed through years of neglect . |
| 25 | The card has been developed through co-operation between Bank of Scotland and the University 's Development Office . |
| 26 | Nemesis is one of Oxford Molecular 's first products developed through collaboration with researchers , providing molecular modelling to users of desktop computers ( currently IBM PC compatibles and Apple Macintosh ) . |
| 27 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 28 | We left after breakfast on the Monday and stopped for lunch near Montdidier . |
| 29 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 30 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |