Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
| 2 | If the goods are close substitutes , competition between them will drive price down near to marginal cost . |
| 3 | We might go to France in another four er about I would say spring time |
| 4 | Let Ephraim Cook keep the business in order for Amabel and Gemma , and whoever came after them must take care of themselves . |
| 5 | Clearly , the largest surfaces to be covered in any room are the walls and the floor , and there are invariably two schools of thought about which should have preference in the budget . |
| 6 | The Mourabitoun then held a press conference to explain the significance of this new weapon while the correspondents — few of whom could speak Arabic — waited in patience to know the weight of the warhead , its height and range . |
| 7 | It is of course not easy and there are few ready-made answers for a church group trying to provide bereavement care for all those with whom they come in contact , some of whom will have family members who have committed suicide . |
| 8 | Not only are the proposals right in themselves , but many of them might win support at Maastricht . |
| 9 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 10 | Some of them may accept equity as part of the necessary restructuring of GPA 's debts . |
| 11 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 12 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 13 | Oh , the powerful lords owed my brother , and now me , monies but none of them would dare renege . |
| 14 | A recent survey of Scottish gynaecologists revealed that 99 per cent of them would recommend HRT , given the right medical circumstances . |
| 15 | Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum . |
| 16 | People of opposing political views can live together , as can people of different religions , until something happens to make them meet head-on , and then one of them must give way . |
| 17 | Julia heard the name ‘ Jonathan ’ , but she made a determined effort not to translate the Italian words , knowing how much the two of them must need privacy . |
| 18 | Why , thought Joe , should Blackbeard think either of them could read Russian ? |
| 19 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 20 | Now some of them could find fame closer to home . |
| 21 | The statement he made was , you say you 've got witnesses but none of them will give evidence against me . |
| 22 | That 's right , but , but you know that it 's only the , are only one of the major supermarket chains that gives money to organization and one of the organizations in Glasgow there was an article in the Scotsman or the Herald the other day and I must n't quote names because I can be wrong , but one of them and there were major s major stores selling food as well as actual food retailers cited , but only one of them will give food that 's past its sell-by date or surplus or whatever for one of the Glasgow charities for the homeless . |
| 23 | Neither of them will start work before the age of 25 and they will probably retire by 50 . |
| 24 | In very dry weather , and light soil , some of them will want watering , not just a watering-canful , but a prolonged sprinkling with a spray attachment from a hose for about half an hour . |
| 25 | Looking in more detail at our poll it is clear that of those who expressed their voting intentions some ten per cent who voted Conservative in 1987 will now vote for Labour , and eight per cent of them will vote LibDem . |
| 26 | Each and every one of them will undergo death by burial and rebirth renewed . |
| 27 | However , far from benefiting from this measure , the people of the south-east of England will also suffer at the hands of Chancellor Norman Lamont through increased fuel bills which many of them will have difficulty in paying as , contrary to popular myth , the south-east does not consist entirely of rich people . |
| 28 | Now that one sort of came out quite easily , some of them will come point eight amps , or two point |
| 29 | Purchase decisions will be referred to her , and discussion of them will take place around her . |
| 30 | Many of them will need major works this century . |