Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This time difference may be outweighed by the need to secure intravenous access for dextrose — a serious disadvantage in agitated patients because extravasation of dextrose may cause considerable pain and tissue necrosis .
2 And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time .
3 And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time .
4 Erm as you say Mr Campbell er the plan at the moment is that the F two thousand will replace jaguar and the tornado A D V F three aircraft and the scope er of replacing other aircraft er remains under consideration , er provisional off take of two fifty er was declared at the d the start of the development phase and of course our work share in development is based on that number .
5 Anyone who so much as hints at a ‘ third way ’ between communism and capitalism is considered naive ; there is simply no time to try more experiments .
6 ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed .
7 Le Cheval de Troie , focusing as it does on the street confrontation between communism and fascism , is evidently a fictional distillation of these events viewed from the vantage-point of Moscow .
8 Technical disturbances arising from the interaction between communism and the novel form are consequently in Nizan 's eyes merely the logical outcome of the communist writer 's refusal to acquiesce to what are perceived as the oppressive structures of bourgeois politics , ethics and culture .
9 Now it was East-West between Communism and Capitalism .
10 The research concentrates on five countries of Western Europe in which the relationship between communism and single-issue radical movements is particularly salient : France , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and the United Kingdom .
11 These toxins are made by bacteria that thrive in the crevices where teeth meet gums ; so treatments for gum disease tend to focus on getting rid of the germs .
12 Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market .
13 As a possible source for Loulou we can , I think , eliminate the mother of a ‘ hideous ’ English family encountered by Gustave on the boat from Alexandria to Cairo : with a green eyeshade attached to her bonnet , she looked ‘ like a sick old parrot ’ .
14 When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected .
15 Mr William Coulter was appointed Captain with Mr Kenneth Twyble as Lieutenant .
16 Mr Coulter , a member of Thomas Street , retired as Captain after four years but remained for several more years as Lieutenant .
17 In 1753 , for example , Provost William Christie of Stirling sought Lord Milton 's intervention with Lord Loudoun on behalf of his son-in-law , Ensign Gunning , who wished to purchase from Charles Elphinstone his commission as Lieutenant of Stirling Castle , or if that was not permitted , the commission of the Ensign of the Castle .
18 I have put him into the London to act as lieutenant , ’ the admiral reported .
19 Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 .
20 Sometimes the choice of non-English knights , without lands in England , might be troublesome — the Savoyard Jean de Grilly , for example , used his position as lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine to build up a considerable territorial holding in the Bordelais .
21 Yet for psychological insight and acute comment it is not easy to match the way Marryat , in Percival Keene , states and develops the situation of an illegitimate boy steadily and tenaciously working out how to persuade his noble father , under whom he serves as midshipman and later as lieutenant , to acknowledge him openly and alter his reserved , cold but unmistakably responsible behaviour towards his son .
22 Mentioned in 1813 list as Lieutenant Ensign Joseph Bennett , commissioned 23 December 1809 ; in 1813 list as Lieutenant .
23 His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City .
24 In 1900 he received a regular commission as lieutenant in the 6th battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers .
25 In 1822 he was commissioned as lieutenant in the 9th Royal Dragoons , transferring to the 12th Lancers in 1826 .
26 Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK .
27 Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional .
28 Genes - for resistance to antibiotics , for example — can be swapped between micro-organisms of completely different species naturally , in the wild .
29 But transgressive reinscription appropriates reaction for resistance , thereby substituting agency for autonomy .
30 On the one hand it has appeared as a focus for resistance .
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