Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preliminary draft of Article 1 did in fact contain , in the English text only , an explanatory gloss to the word ‘ evidence ’ as ‘ including the taking of statements of witnesses , parties or experts and the production or examination of documents or other objects or property ’ ; its eventual omission was for reasons of style rather than of substance . |
| 2 | Perhaps we should not look for too deep a political explanation : ostracism was for the man whose leadership had been rejected — which might happen for reasons of style rather than content — and whose disapproving presence was an obstruction and a reproach . |
| 3 | A few large landowners were stirred by their consciences to build , for reasons of philanthropy rather than economy , new ‘ model ’ cottages and villages , but these were usually on their own estates where conditions were in any case generally better than elsewhere . |
| 4 | Although for reasons of space only parts of the conversations have been transcribed and reproduced here , for several of the conversations the extracts are just long enough to give a flavour of the content and tone of the conversation in general . |
| 5 | We reserve the right in any circumstance to cancel your holiday , and , in this event , we will return to you all monies you have paid us or will offer you an alternative available holiday to purchase , or comparable standard , in no case , except for reasons of war etc. ( see Important note above ) , will your holiday be cancelled less than 8 weeks before the scheduled departure date . |
| 6 | An electric blanket is also useful for keeping you warm at night , but remember that for reasons of safety nearly all electric blankets ( with the exception of some modern overblankets ) need to be switched off before you go to bed . |
| 7 | The new version claimed that this was for reasons of efficiency rather than a political move , although Vagnorius had expressed concern about former communist links and obstruction of policy . |
| 8 | Questions should therefore be framed to look for attitudes of mind rather than simple quantity and frequency of use . |
| 9 | The multiplication of life tenures , the scramble for reversions , and the attempt to make posts hereditary are all indications that offices were coming to be regarded as forms of property rather than as jobs to be done . |
| 10 | The consequences of changes in the budget constraint for hours of work again become generally unpredictable a priori . |
| 11 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 12 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 13 | For values of H less than unity the pull.out torque/speed characteristic is asymptotic to the T=0 axis . |
| 14 | Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own . |
| 15 | The Edinburgh branch of the union faced particular problems from the start , then , with a sub-category of skilled , fully apprenticed but low-paid compositors in the trade well before any mention is heard of women , and with a division of labour between groups of compositors already well established . |
| 16 | What was there in common between groups of people often so distinct in their environment , their social origins , their formation , their economic situation , and sometimes even their language and customs ? |
| 17 | It is an expression of alliance between groups of kin rather than a short-term arrangement between two private individuals . |
| 18 | My suggestion that some " metaphors ' in The Inheritors be treated as cases of underlexicalisation rather than metaphor , so splitting off underlexicalisation from metaphor proper , clarifies Golding 's procedure and permits an analysis which captures more precisely the nature of the fiction . |
| 19 | To cater for demand at peak times it has to build extra power stations , which are then idle during times of day when demand is lower . |
| 20 | This is because figures were usually calculated for groups of speakers rather than for individuals , a practice which seemed to fit in neatly with Labov 's theoretical position that the locus of systematic variation was the group rather than the individual . |
| 21 | The Foundation has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of Distributed File System bugs . |
| 22 | It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs . |
| 23 | But we reject a division between parties of opinion when matters of principle are at stake . |
| 24 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 25 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 26 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 27 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 28 | And even after years of existence here , should we now start doing any of those things ? |
| 29 | We will encourage a new system of tax-free child-care vouchers for parents of children under five , given by employers and usable in workplace , local authority and private nurseries and for individual qualified carers . |
| 30 | Elizabeth brings with her the experience of working through periods of change both with ILEA and London Guildhall which recently made the transition from polytechnic to university status . |