Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most accommodation and transport is provided by independent suppliers , for whom we will accept responsibility on the terms set out as follows . |
| 2 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 3 | They admit it 's expensive , but say that by sharing the aircraft between them it should provide value for money . |
| 4 | The process described is common : women who often suffer from low self-esteem , frustrated creativity or an inability to assert themselves can — subconsciously at least — look for someone who will express confidence , arrogance , purposefulness , ambition and success . |
| 5 | The treaty was scheduled to be signed in February 1992 , after which it would require ratification by the 12 national parliaments . |
| 6 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 7 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 8 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 9 | One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers . |
| 10 | The imposition of colonial rule by the metropolitan bourgeoisie requires the creation of a state apparatus ‘ through which it can exercise dominion over all the indigenous social classes in the colony ’ . |
| 11 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 12 | I am the carbuncle of the sun , the most noble purified earth , through which you may change copper , iron , tin and lead into gold . |
| 13 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 14 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 15 | Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience . |
| 16 | The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness . |
| 17 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 18 | The manner in which the Prime Minister had handled the Westland issue within the Cabinet system , Mr Heseltine told the world 's press , was ‘ not a proper way to carry on government and ultimately not an approach for which I can share responsibility ’ . |
| 19 | Knowing general family traits provided a good starting point and from assorted references I began to get an idea of the species I could hope to find myself and those for which I 'd need help . |
| 20 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 21 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 22 | These are the not-books for which he must take responsibility . |
| 23 | He did visit the King 's College and Boswell name-dropped regarding the chapel , wherein lies the fifteenth-century Bishop Elphinstone , ‘ of whom I shall have occasion to write , ’ declared Bozzy , ‘ in my history of James IV of Scotland , the patron of my family ’ : Auchinleck was granted to the Boswells in return for favours rendered . |
| 24 | Some of them who can speak English come up to you and give you a hug and say , Thank-you , you give us life . |
| 25 | In more realistic conditions , however , managers are faced with a complex series of questions in the resolution of which they must exercise choice , for example , about plant location , production methods , employment levels , output , advertising , investment , research and development , and so on . |
| 26 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 27 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 28 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 29 | In the latter , it is ‘ public opinion ’ — ‘ a scattered discourse that in part belongs to each of the individuals of a society but of which none may claim ownership ’ — which underwrites the verisimilitude of the text , allows its relationship to its referent to be probable , necessary , and therefore true , and naturalizes its conventions : ‘ public opinion therefore functions as a rule of genre that relates to all genres . ’ |
| 30 | Councillor has lived and worked all his life in with the exception of his war service in the army which was spent in the South of England , of which I will make mention later . |