Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ( b ) by an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies , or
2 ( b ) an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies .
3 For secondly he sits through many lunches , discussing life and love and never mentioning football .
4 Would the average person , who never thinks about such things and is unfit and unsteady , have survived ?
5 As he grows older he thinks about fewer things — he is now mainly occupied with the Common Market , the cold war and the Atlantic Alliance .
6 That 's all he ever thinks about these days . ’
7 Clearly that goes through many doors throughout the er the constituency , and it is widely read , people look forward to it .
8 Obviously when considering this process of loss we have to remember that an individual seldom goes through these stages as neatly as might seem to have been suggested .
9 There is a further variation on the above procedure , which is that under section 2 of the 1936 Act steps can be taken at an early stage on grounds of the novelty and importance of the order , or because it deals with matters outside Scotland , to convert the order into a substituted Bill , in which case it goes through both Houses as a Bill and is not dealt with under the standard 1936 procedure .
10 The same goes for all styles and all periods .
11 And the same goes for those creatures like them who are of our kind though not of our species …
12 While some services may be cheaper , others may be very much more expensive ; and the same goes for any goods you buy in the shops .
13 Once a ridge has developed , it often persists for many weeks .
14 It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone .
15 More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks .
16 The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months .
17 But pain often persists after all steps have been taken to relieve the cause , and practical investigators looked for drugs which gave the benefits of morphine without causing addiction or other inconvenient effects .
18 In many cases , these boats have remained in EC waters for many years and have changed ownership several times .
19 ‘ But in adults it 's like a flu that lingers for several weeks .
20 Pessimism is her distinguishing trait : she worries about many aspects of her work .
21 Erm we have always out any er leaflet erm clearly so that people to put their names on the register erm that is a statutory responsibility erm the expenditure in excess of what we had er done in the past is actually going to be a very very small amount of one officer 's time in redesigning the leaflet erm otherwise the expenditure will remain as it , as it always has for all intents and purposes and I think that answers your question if clearly you have problems about getting people on the electoral register that means there 's something about your own electoral .
22 It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom .
23 David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam .
24 In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all .
25 And Glotz has for many years now supervised all my recordings .
26 But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years .
27 The Department of Agriculture in Scotland has for many years conducted individual farm assessments with appeal committees on which farmers are represented .
28 Perhaps for this reason the law in several areas of censorship has for many years remained quietly in the background , yet with an extensive array of legislation to be respected and always at its disposal .
29 But , in spite of the considerable effort and investment , it has for many years failed to pay its way .
30 In our diets , emphasis has for many years been laid on the intake of saturated fat as the major danger factor , but this is certainly not the whole explanation .
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