Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 2 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 3 | Canals were used not only for transport of goods but also for ferrying passengers and for the occasional pleasure trip . |
| 4 | Recreation is less important for the welfare of animals than the other three as this part is basically for enjoyment of visitors only . |
| 5 | Perhaps for lack of alternatives , the left in both countries is gambling on being allowed to fight fair elections , to take power if they win , and then to be able to implement real reforms in government . |
| 6 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 7 | Until recently it was assumed that they all persisted as adults , but is has now been shown that the chilling of infective larvae before administration to calves will produce arrested L5 ; hypobiosis at this stage has also been observed in naturally infected calves in Switzerland , Austria and Canada , although the extent to which this occurs naturally after ingestion of larvae in late autumn and its significance in the transmission of the infection has not yet been fully established . |
| 8 | But this is incorrect because the " Although … processes " clause is adverbial ( see below under discussion of commas , ) , and so should be separated from the " She … predator " part by a comma . |
| 9 | Unfortunately silting has reduced the depth of some broads , and this , coupled with increased nutrient levels from sewerage outfall , together with run-off of fertilisers from surrounding farmland , has reduced the aquatic life . |
| 10 | Dissolution of diagnostic minerals , together with alteration of others , can significantly modify original grain composition , particularly as the original grain can rarely be confidently identified ( e.g. Fig. 5.36b ) . |
| 11 | Thus the structure of spoken sentences need not have derived entirely from combination of words that had replaced single gesture types . |
| 12 | In such activities , there are assumed to be some INVARIANT elements which have to be performed ( eg conforming to the rules of tennis ) , but that there are VARIANT ways in which the individual may perform them ( eg in choice of backhands , forehands , volleys ) . |
| 13 | Yanto , who would do anything for anybody who asked him nicely , also had a very short fuse when it came to insults , especially in front of witnesses . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it did add to royal pressure upon the archbishop and further reminded him of the realities of royal power : in 1285 he petitioned for the relaxation of the statute , especially in respect of grants to parish churches , but Edward reserved his right to licence — to confer or withhold favour . |
| 15 | I walked — in amazing Cecil B de Mille film type downpour yesterday for tea with a young lawyer son of one of John 's contemporaries at Gordonstoun , so that he could help me finalise the leaflet for a seminar on 14th January in respect of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , which many think is akin to copyright and so on but it embraces much more than that nowadays , especially in respect of computers , TV and sound usage , collaboration in respect of research and development projects which eat investments budgets and so on . |
| 16 | But if he were she was all in favour of bogeymen . |
| 17 | The Shah shared much of Behbehanians suspicion of the British , But now in Aswan , he did not seem to be greatly in favour of Behbehanians suggestion that he throw himself in their mercy . |
| 18 | Gina picked up the warm handful gingerly in case of accidents . |
| 19 | Parkinson agreed , but considered it disloyal of Merryfield to say so in front of outsiders . |
| 20 | This was so in respect of rectories but not of vicarages . |
| 21 | The completion of a great survey of landownership in 1725–38 paved the way for a high degree of equality in respect of taxation ; the nobility and clergy retained tax privileges only in respect of properties which they could prove they had held before 1584 . |
| 22 | The first is that there are no systematic entailments between sentences differing only in respect of compatibles in parallel syntactic positions . |
| 23 | 5.11.4 any steps taken in direct connection with the preparation and service of a Schedule of dilapidations during or after the expiration of the Term but if after the expiration of the Term only in respect of wants of repair occurring during the Term and where served within three months after the expiration of the Term |
| 24 | Is he aware that there are problems not only in respect of teachers ' salaries , actual as opposed to average , but in respect of responsibility for the funding of the older village primary schools which predominate in rural areas ? |
| 25 | This does not imply a blank check of American support throughout the world for every interest of the British Empire , but only in respect of areas and interests which are in the opinion of the US vital to the maintenance of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth of Nations as a great power . |
| 26 | had committed against the barge hirers the tort of procuring breaches of their contract with their men — the plaintiffs would have had a cause of action not only in respect of breaches of hiring contracts but also in respect of new business they were unable to undertake . |
| 27 | First , we may call the abstract unit of form which is realised in actual sentences as the appropriate member of a set of word forms differing only in respect of inflections a lexical form ; and we can extend the notion of lexical form to cover an abstraction from the variously inflected manifestations of an idiom or dead metaphor . |
| 28 | To summarise : a lexeme is a family of lexical units ; a lexical unit is the union of a single sense with a lexical form ; a lexical form is an abstraction from a set of word forms ( or alternatively — it is a family of word forms ) which differ only in respect of inflections . |
| 29 | Leases quite often attempt to restrict the opening hours of premises , not only in respect of shops but also offices . |
| 30 | direct debits under the instruction will be originated only in respect of premiums payable as notified in advance and agreed by you ; |