Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wars that were to end abruptly and , ironically , for reasons that had nothing to do with internal musical divisions . |
| 2 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 3 | Further , sucralose maintains better acid stability than aspartame , which means a longer shelf life for products that use it . |
| 4 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 5 | Improved knowledge of the basic mechanisms of gastric secretion led to the development of synthetic drugs such as cimetidine and ranitidine which block the action of histamine , by occupying the histamine receptors in the parietal cell ( H2receptors ) . |
| 6 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 7 | They use their criticism not to refine plans for change but to block them . |
| 8 | Place your other arm on the floor for support and lift your leg up in the air in a scissors action . |
| 9 | He helped Ratagan away , the big man leaning on him for support and cursing his lameness . |
| 10 | She looked at Travis for support and found him grim-faced . |
| 11 | The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes . |
| 12 | To ensure shortest-path routes for cyclists and to increase their safety and comfort , cycle traffic can be permitted to deviate from existing traffic regulations . |
| 13 | The point is to be specific about income and to plan it to meet your maximum budget . |
| 14 | But they also recognize the crucial role played by ideas of different kinds : for Bottoms the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal looms large , for Fitzgerald and Sim there are crises of legitimacy and authority , Woolf stresses prisoners ' sense of injustice , while Hall charts the creation of an ideology of law and order . |
| 15 | Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things . |
| 16 | Sits in his armchair for hours and says nothing . |
| 17 | In it Timmy would crawl for hours or pull himself up and stand precariously balancing , his napkin invariably falling about his knees . |
| 18 | The worms can only live in compostable material so there 's no fear of them making a bid for freedom and eating their way through the vegetable patch . |
| 19 | Water Gardening from Lotus tells you everything you need to know about building and maintaining your garden pond . |
| 20 | What matters at this point is to see the importance for faith and doubt which this claim implies . |
| 21 | The dams also render the animals easy prey for hunters and trap them when the water is drained for irrigation . |
| 22 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 23 | George takes the responsibility for Lennie and accepts him gradually . |
| 24 | The other rib , of beef I mean , to get a piece that 's worth cooking cos to carve it and everything else you need at least three ribs and the ribs are sort of usually it 's about that sort of size |
| 25 | The whip is also used for correction when needed it should be used with discretion and never to vent one 's anger on a horse for one 's own inadequacies . |
| 26 | A man said he had breathed for ages and felt nothing . |
| 27 | I talk about Bernard and tell them he is in publishing . |
| 28 | The completion of this work would increase the convenience of searching the General Catalogue for researchers and save them valuable time , and it would also create savings in time for Library staff . |
| 29 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 30 | There was something about Mortimer that made her uneasy . |