Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 2 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 3 | He regarded it as essential that men become more deeply committed to their work through the formation of professional/occupational groups , since for them an involvement in the family did not provide a sufficiently sound moral basis for continued existence : ‘ Men must gradually become attached to their occupational or professional life … |
| 4 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 5 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 6 | Morality , for religious people , is not something invented by people to keep community life sweet ; it is for them an obligation arising out of the nature of the way things are . |
| 7 | The 15 all present and correct had between them an astonishing 533 years ' service . |
| 8 | His language , so familiar and so foreign , will always be for me an acquired speech . |
| 9 | The assignment in Wiltshire proved for me an extremely full and busy one . |
| 10 | So I spent my first year developing that , translating it into a job description for me an my colleagues , structuring plans for the health boards and therefore job descriptions for general managers — it was a cascade — to help people in their everyday jobs , involving examining what proportions of the organisation were crucial , not just to the people within them , but to those using them . ’ |
| 11 | The two works of theirs which Barbara Everett compares are neither of them an escape from the spacious confines of the personal . |
| 12 | It took many of them an awful long time even to introduce themselves . |
| 13 | Other Red Cross workers saw Mr Christen standing with his hands in the air , holding in one of them an artificial limb , before the gunmen took him away . |
| 14 | Two speeches straddled the domestic political scene this week , each of them an affirmation of the survival of the British ancien régime and of the continuing relevance of archaic institutions of the UK state . |
| 15 | Coleridge tells us that after he ‘ had successively studied in the schools of Locke , Berkeley , Leibnitz , and Hartley and could find in none of them an abiding place for [ his ] reason ’ ( Biographia Literaria , ix ) he discovered in Germany the writings of ‘ the illustrious sage of Koenigsberg ’ : Immanuel Kant . |
| 16 | He also gives each of them an egg to take care of . |
| 17 | This kind of sentiment was reflected in France , where the influential courtier , Philippe de Mézières , in works of a semi-polemical nature ( one of them an open letter on peace addressed to Richard II ) asked whether the long war should continue . |
| 18 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 19 | what 's one of them an E C G ? |
| 20 | The second area relates to erm school meals and you have in front of you an erratum sheet the sheet outlines two areas of er change relative to erm in the main report . |
| 21 | Blanche found the man in front of her an enigma , impenetrable and secretive . |
| 22 | They produced a file which they said was his and took out of it an indistinct , green photograph of someone carrying a parcel . |
| 23 | There is a double set of front pockets on each side — first a zipped pocket and in front of it an open patch pocket , and both are excellent , deep pockets . |
| 24 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
| 25 | Within it the structural goal is known as an arrival , a movement towards it an anticipation . |
| 26 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |
| 27 | Upstairs we have a violinist , downstairs another one , in the next room a singing-master who gives lessons , and in the other room opposite ours an oboist . |
| 28 | I suppose yoga enthusiasts would find it painless , but for most of us an hour spent in this position was an ordeal . |
| 29 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 30 | Behind them an old woman is standing , staring constantly at the fruit machine . |