Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had examples of other parents won over into trusting school staff and giving truthful instead of cosmetic reasons for the child 's absence — but keeping the child off , nonetheless , for reasons peripheral to the child ( such as ‘ going with granny to collect her pension ’ ) . |
| 2 | Two patients were lost to follow up : one withdrew from treatment after two weeks for reasons unrelated to the study protocol and one patient failed to comply with the protocol after cessation of therapy . |
| 3 | McElroy argues that as an ice sheet advance begins ( for reasons unconnected with the carbon dioxide ‘ budget ’ ) there is increased erosion both by the glaciers and by water running on the continents into the falling seas . |
| 4 | An hour or so after the game , Dean had been interviewed for Rugby Special at the Parc des Princes . |
| 5 | In that case he said : As I understand it , the essence of this branch of law , whatever the origin of it may be , is that a person who has obtained information in confidence is not allowed to use it as a springboard for activities detrimental to the person who made the confidential communication , and springboard it remains even when all the features have been published or can be ascertained by actual inspection by any members of the public . |
| 6 | In addition to re-districting — the alteration of electoral boundaries within individual states — there had been a reapportionment of seats between states prior to the 1992 contest based on the population distribution revealed by the 1990 census . |
| 7 | HUNDREDS of animals were treated by St Tiggywinkle 's hospital for dehydration due to the lack of moisture in the soil this year . |
| 8 | The Witches management are also unhappy with the SRA who are not backing requests for riders new to the British League . |
| 9 | Er I mean Standard Life for instance tied with the Halifax , G A with the Derbyshire , erm endless societies have tied . |
| 10 | The forecaster would search past time-series of data for consistent evidence of : * seasonal variations ( which are for instance marked in the case of holiday or toy sales ) over a period of a year . |
| 11 | He is anxious that it will increase conflicts between groups due to the strengthening of and increase of group identity . |
| 12 | They will then notify their clients by sending them contract notes — a ‘ bought ’ note in the case of a purchase and a ‘ sold ’ note in the case of a sale — accompanied , in the case of a purchase , by a request for payment prior to the next settlement date ( unless they are already holding their client 's funds ) or , in the case of a sale , by a transfer form for signature and return and a request for the share certificate ( unless they already hold it ) . |
| 13 | By October 1987 the indebtedness was over £154,000 and in November formal demand was served on Mr. O'Brien calling for payment pursuant to the guarantee . |
| 14 | On the one hand the cost of money capital could be reduced , by offering funds for projects consistent with the overall investment plan at low interest rates , and on the other the level of aggregate demand could be boosted by the public sector projects . |
| 15 | For any given demand for money , they seek to adjust interest rates so as to make the demand for money equal to the target money supply . |
| 16 | ON Wednesday , August 26 ex-GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No 4936 ‘ Kinlet Hall ’ left the Toddington , headquarters of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway , for pastures new on the Llangollen Railway . |
| 17 | Local authorities must , however , use this power with circumspection , since if the enforcement notice is quashed on appeal they are liable to pay compensation for loss due to the stop notice . |
| 18 | Some universities , such as Cambridge and Nottingham , divide first degree courses into ‘ Part I ’ and ‘ Part II ’ , the former usually but not always occupying the first two years , with some transfer between subjects possible at the second stage . |
| 19 | The number of tuples in each relation is again a function of the component parts , with the first or " higher order " tuple being reserved for data specific to the parent assembly . |
| 20 | It is usually better to send a witness a questionnaire for completion prior to the interview . |
| 21 | The equipotential surfaces may now be plotted on the basis of the above equation and then the field lines may be obtained as trajectories orthogonal to the equipotentials . |
| 22 | Rosemary loved him , she was certain of that , but Rosemary was in a particular hell of her own , her love for Travis warring with the convictions she had grown up with . |
| 23 | Despite the furore in the press for months prior to the report ( see SR Oct 1990 ) and in the days before its publication , it actually contained minimal criticism of the social workers actions , and the joint working with the police ( a major concern in Cleveland in 1987 ) was praised . |
| 24 | The General Election may have come and gone in the Royal County of Berkshire , as it has everywhere else , yet for months prior to the political electioneering of recent weeks , one of Gt . |
| 25 | In the A sections , the tune is more subtly transformed : the basic melodic shapes are still there , for listeners familiar with the original , but they are ‘ glossed ’ , ‘ paraphrased ’ , by changing a few notes here , a few notes there ; the repetitions of the original all but disappear . |
| 26 | A comic fairy tale about innocence triumphant in the snake-pit of a Los Angeles talent agency , it has a likeable hero and a nice line in deflating humour . |
| 27 | The owners want a pay structure for baseball similar to the one introduced into professional basketball when it was losing money in the early 1980s , and which professional football is copying . |
| 28 | This was by no means certain at the time the payments were made . |
| 29 | It must be noted , however , that it is by no means certain in the majority of examples that the lagoons may not contain considerable thicknesses of coral . |
| 30 | However , ‘ eugenic considerations were by no means crucial to the passage of the Incest Act ’ in 1908 and the protection of children from sexual exploitation by parents was regarded as far more significant . |