Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [prep] [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIMINUTIVE but perfectly formed , this barbecue by Odell folds into a compact carrying case , perfect for beach cuisine , patio parties and for anyone who does n't want a rusting heap of metal in their yard all winter . |
| 2 | The general shortage of comforts and of everything which kept us just above the lowest level of life was sufficiently great to make individuals cling to what they had with something like fanaticism . |
| 3 | It is in culture , after all , and in mass culture particularly , that the meanings which structure our lives and by which we understand ourselves are constructed and reconstructed . |
| 4 | Alex , her brother , was big enough to be included in the older children 's activities and without him she had felt unprotected . |
| 5 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 6 | That means that the trust will be able to improve on the successful record for day surgery that the hospitals established in the past 10 years and to which I referred earlier . |
| 7 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 8 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 9 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 10 | Her dark eyes narrowed with the strange squint-eyed intensity which so fascinated Ludens and to which he had drawn Franca 's attention . |
| 11 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 12 | Television series such as ‘ Colditz ’ and ‘ Planet of the Apes ’ , serve as a ready source of knowledge for the conventions of their games and in them we see the deployment of a rhetoric from which the pupils ' associated theory of schooling can be inferred . |
| 13 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 14 | My interest at the time was in describing the close bonds of friendship women often from , an intimacy rarely found amongst men and about which I spoke on Women 's Hour . |
| 15 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 16 | A few of the ulema , highly placed in the government , encouraged him in his attacks on the gazi emirates , ulema " whose ideas and sentiments had remained attached to the ancient centres of Islam from which they had come as poor adventurers and to which they intended to return as wealthy ministers of the new master " . |
| 17 | And then the danger of lungs and in which I do quite well , and you can say to us , and we earn it . |
| 18 | It was only six miles from the English Border , but in his day England was friendly , and as well as an English wife he had a great many links with the southern kingdom , in which he owned large lands and from which he had brought so many sprigs of the Norman and Flemish nobility to settle in Scotland . |
| 19 | The people with whom we had the intensive interviews and from whom we quote are not necessarily representative of the two districts in which they live . |
| 20 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |