Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors of the paper do not suggest ignoring the age of the patient , quite the reverse : ‘ criteria appropriate for younger patients may not be suitable in the elderly , for whom effective stabilisation of disease , a partial remission , or a complete remission of short duration may be sufficient to achieve worthwhile prolongation of life with an acceptable quality of life . ’ |
| 2 | Apart from these important changes , specialized antiracist work within the local state has been increasingly identified as an embarrassment by the Labour Party for whom political commitments to antiracism and multiculturalism are apparently a vote loser . |
| 3 | Mounted bird wings , stuffed mammals , galls , acorns , nests , seed heads , fungi , grasses — all sorts of natural objects were on view , or ‘ on feel ’ , for folk who ca n't see , but for whom tactile experience of different shapes and textures is a small compensation . |
| 4 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 5 | By now he conceded that individual rights for Jews , as in the western democracies , would not meet the needs of the Jewish masses in eastern Europe , for whom some form of group ( though not ‘ national ’ ) rights would be essential . |
| 6 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 7 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 8 | But if motherhood is for them some sort of liberation , it is n't in the image of the " liberated lady " stereotype , Cosmo girl , sexy , single , childless and employed . |
| 9 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |
| 10 | However , an equal number of players are working in situations were an ability to adapt to different musical landscapes enhances their earning power considerably , and for them this type of rig is a Godsend . |
| 11 | My aunt , she run a house for them visitin' ministers to Port au Prince . |
| 12 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 13 | ‘ It has been estimated that the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , could , to mutual advantage , create between them 80,000 jobs within the island of Ireland through import substitution by encouraging inter-regional trade co-operation . ’ |
| 14 | Financial deregulation , with its resultant mergers and reconstructions , has reduced LIFFE 's membership to under 200 firms which between them own shares in the Exchange . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 16 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 17 | You will be wondering , what is the message of Christmas for me this year in the face of this or that problem ? |
| 18 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 19 | I love the very dark flowered ‘ Black Magic ’ , which did well for me last summer in a tub placed outside in a sunny , sheltered spot . |
| 20 | I thought about my young wife in the hotel in the village . |
| 21 | I kept quiet about my sneaking affection for grolla — the grappa-laced coffee they serve in rustic wooden loving cups — and the Bar Roma 's wonderfully enveloping sofas , and tagged along . |
| 22 | Well I did n't tell you about my hot date on Wednesday . |
| 23 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 24 | He then continued : ‘ Instead of boring you with yet more politics , I thought I 'd talk to you about my recent trip to Southern Africa . ’ |
| 25 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 26 | I need not go into detail about my long connection with Cornwall and my interest in Celtic history , which had this family origin . |
| 27 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 28 | When I rang Robert Service and invited him to the hotel for a drink he accepted gladly and wanted to hear all about my flying visit to his old stamping grounds . |
| 29 | ‘ My body in your bed in exchange for your acceptance of the truth and an end to your constant comments about my supposed affair with Florian ? |
| 30 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |