Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT are the reasons for setting up a national lottery in favour of the arts ? |
| 2 | There were clear political reasons for setting up the LDDC and other Urban Development Corporations , and for deciding the way in which they conduct their affairs . |
| 3 | Egypt and Syria have a smaller stake in the war , but they also have sound pragmatic reasons for seeing off a rival . |
| 4 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 5 | Mike Brearley , the subsequent England captain and a Cambridge graduate with a distinctly academic turn of mind , was revealing in his reasons for turning down the offer , which would have overturned the historical structure of international cricket : ‘ Money apart , Kerry Packer is not my style . |
| 6 | Parents at Heiton may have a case for taking out an interim interdict to stop the council closing their school at the end of the term . ’ |
| 7 | The possibility that the amount of the bills might be reduced on a taxation which has still not been initiated is not a sufficient reason in this case for setting aside the demand . |
| 8 | On the face of it , there would seem to have been quite a strong case for handing over the division to the Soviet authorities along with the other formations originating form territories controlled by the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | If the gritty Hugh is away opening for his country , then no doubt there is a stronger case for testing out the leadership qualities of Maynard , who has himself been the subject of some speculation concerning the furniture vans . |
| 10 | Finally , in situations where the conventional statistical approach can not be applied , and provided suitable skills are available , there is a strong case for carrying out the analysis in conjunction with the research itself , rather than contracting out . |
| 11 | Blows your excuse for going down the job centre . |
| 12 | Plans for setting up the Newbolt Committee were initiated in the course of an unprecedented mobilization of the whole population to sustain what has been described as the first " total " war effort . |
| 13 | When the commission unveiled its tough plans for shaking up the beer industry in March , many industry watchers predicted that Whitbread , forced into a choice between keeping its six breweries or freeing two-thirds of its 6,250 pubs from the obligation to sell its beers , would decide to keep full control of its pubs and pull out of production . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to run the business myself , I have plans for paying off the bills of each creditor in instalments and then trying to build up the business again . |
| 15 | We have seen how McClellan 's system provides a framework for building up the bookstock at each service point . |
| 16 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 17 | The matrix diagram also provides a basic framework for working out the phases of the site . |
| 18 | I already had a mailing list of over 7000 people , which is healthy for someone who is n't a household name , and is a good base for putting out a single , if those people then go and buy it . |
| 19 | Checklist for setting up the picture |
| 20 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 21 | The appearance of this list marks the transfer of hectic activity , at least for a time , from within the SOED , where the specifications are drawn up , to those institutions and individuals interested in ‘ winning ’ the research contracts advertised , who now have to notify interest and submit proposals for carrying out the work . |
| 22 | And bizarrely , there 's no function for opening up an empty budget planner ; you have to save the example planner under a different name and delete all the data from it . |
| 23 | But the responsibility for sending out the grim , pathetic news was often his , and he hated it . |
| 24 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 25 | TEC directors have already persuaded the Home Office to hand them responsibility for smartening up the employment prospects of black and brown Britons . |
| 26 | Established by Congress on Aug. 2 , it was given responsibility for drawing up a plan within 150 days for the " pacification " of the country . |
| 27 | And it says The Tory government which must which must take responsibility for setting up a rapacious duopoly of generating companies . |
| 28 | be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme . |
| 29 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 30 | However , Geoffrey Holton 's imminent retirement complicated the issue especially as the UK involvement had been up-graded from mere participation in a Zambian investigation to full responsibility for carrying out the investigation . |