Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson 's views about England were more platitudinous than revolutionary ; England , he would say , is ‘ a great place to live in , but as a great place it should carry on standing totally for democracy and people should have the absolute freedom to say what they think ’ . |
| 2 | Preparation for instruction is again minimal , but with help from the trained staff the senior learner can develop a teaching role . |
| 3 | Other reasons for depopulation were also examined during this period . |
| 4 | The pursuit of analytical insights into the reasons for cutting is probably unhelpful ( Simpson 1976 ) . |
| 5 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 6 | The reasons for referral were either at the patient 's request because of an unwillingness to undergo an operation ( 70% ) or because the patient was a high operative risk ( 30% ) . |
| 7 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 8 | Ironically , this means that the most exciting objects for play are also the simplest and the cheapest . |
| 9 | The Roman poet says , ‘ dutce est desipere in loco ’ , ‘ an opportunity for indiscretion is sometimes pleasant ’ . |
| 10 | Shaun Pantling , director of customer service , believes ‘ the opportunity for empowerment is practically limitless . |
| 11 | ‘ In my view , the case for compensation is now overwhelming , ’ he added . |
| 12 | Saying he would be writing again to the Prime Minister on the matter , Mr Macdonald claimed the moral case for compensation was now overwhelming . |
| 13 | 1.4 The case for change was therefore irrefutable leaving only the problem of how best to effect the changes while maintaining a balance between modules for personal development and the more insistent vocational claims . |
| 14 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 15 | The case for island-driving is often argued in terms of efficiency . |
| 16 | Though some economic texts suggest that the case for charging is essentially the same as that for any price mechanism , the history of charging suggests the motivation has usually been quite different . |
| 17 | With many relationships the case for self-creation is even stronger , since in them the fact that one chose to have a relationship of a certain kind and chose one 's partner is part of what makes the relationship valuable . |
| 18 | As far as the industry was concerned , the case for SERPS was very simple . |
| 19 | The case for scheduling is once again undermined . |
| 20 | Translating aims into specific objectives can assist in removing the confusions that can arise between intentions and practice , but beyond this the case for objectives is less certain ; in fact , it has been one of the most hotly debated innovations in teaching for some time . |
| 21 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 22 | Scruton ( 1984 ) has argued that freedom for conservatives is only possible when subordinated to an organisation or arrangement which defines the individual 's aim . |
| 23 | A CHEQUE FOR £2,000 was recently handed over to the guide Dog for the Blind Association at the Shell/Esso Gas Plant at St Fergus . |
| 24 | As the Museum 's train steamed past , an outsized cheque for £1,500 was officially handed over by Director , Mr Terry Austin , to Museum Chairman Mike Stanbury . |
| 25 | Citizens who had the orthodox Soviet version of Ukrainian history rammed down their throats for decades are now being told a completely different version , arguably also coloured by the political prejudices of its authors . |
| 26 | Language policies for education are highly charged political issues and seldom if ever decided on educational grounds alone . |
| 27 | It points out that certain elements of US policies for grain are now partly decoupled , since there is now an element of reducing support by reducing the quantities on which support payments would be made . |
| 28 | The processes that generate patterns during development are almost certainly more complex than Zhabotinsky 's reaction , or the process imagined by Turing , or the generation of a gradient by synthesizing a substance at one point and destroying it at another . |
| 29 | The important point for the contemporary literature on subcultures is that this type of resistance through rituals is still ‘ symbolic ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Plans for Tenby are still open . |