Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This initially meant that the bed-wetter would be made to sleep in the guard-room , where during the night he would be wakened hourly for toilet purposes . |
| 2 | So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders . |
| 3 | They did so without any regard for the serious injury they could cause or for the damage they could inflict . |
| 4 | Firms form regional alliances either generally or for the provision of specific services whether for clients or for the firms themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ As far as I can see we can either go for Dersingham or for the man himself . |
| 6 | * Avoid being condescending to your reader or about the text you are discussing ( see pp. 78 – 9 ) . |
| 7 | Outside the hospital , ASAP students lead peer discussions through several short video triggers developed by ASAP , or they create their own trigger role-plays about their own lives or about the stories they 've heard in the hospital and jail . |
| 8 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 9 | There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative . |
| 10 | However relatively little is known about their career plans and aspirations or about the impact which non-work issues , such as their domestic commitments , household work strategies and leisure orientations , have on these . |
| 11 | For some teachers , " database creation " might well bring to mind a class of using microcomputers as an efficient means of collating , storing and retrieving information about the local enviroment , about 19th century village life or about the class itself . |
| 12 | In its place , the Home Secretary would appoint a standing Advisory Council to report and make recommendations from time to time on such aspects of penal treatment as he might refer to it or as the Council itself , having consulted the Home Secretary , felt that it ought to consider . |
| 13 | It can only be brought to an end on or after the date it runs out by a notice in a prescribed form , served by either the landlord or the tenant . |
| 14 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 15 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 16 | We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express . |
| 17 | But such stylized behaviour does not affect the genuineness of his pain during this period , or of the loneliness which it seemed to impose upon him . |
| 18 | But she added that prosecution and imprisonment by a criminal court did not serve the interests of the family as a whole , or of the child who remained part of it , or how victims would deal with contact with the abuser after release . |
| 19 | This is reflected in such comments as that of the Russian astronaut Gagarin who said , " I did n't see God in space " , or of the scientist who says , " You ca n't prove God exists " , or of the literalist church-goer who says , " If you do n't go to church you are not worshipping God " , or of the religious fanatic who says , " God tells me what to do " . |
| 20 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 21 | The refusal of Oskar Lafontaine , the defeated SPD candidate for chancellor in the Bundestag elections , to become chair either of the SPD parliamentary group or of the party itself resulted at a congress in Bremen in May in the choice of Engholm ( Minister President in Schleswig-Holstein ) as party chair [ see pp. 37905 ; 38199 ] . |
| 22 | Or of the mother who promotes cross-cousin marriage so that a new member of her own lineage can be brought into her adopted one , so that she will be less of an outsider in the latter . |
| 23 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 24 | This decision might have been regarded as one asserting the value of individual choice , but the Court put it on a rather different basis , saying that ‘ the implementation of the rights conferred on the employees by the Directive could not be dependent on the consent either of the transferor or of the transferee or of the employees themselves , wit |
| 25 | ‘ I have not time to tell you of our adventures or of the danger we are in . |
| 26 | However , nearly all the studies deal with the structure of the system of storing meaning or of the language itself and not with the dynamic processes of thinking and remembering . |
| 27 | Some scholars believe that the allegories or allegorical interpretation of the parables were the creation either of the early Christians , or of the Evangelists themselves , reflecting the belief of the churches for whom they were writing . |
| 28 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 29 | Henceforth the Justices of the Forest were for the most part great barons , who often held extensive estates in or near the forests they administered . |
| 30 | Or like the Vicar they keep to the straight path because vice is more arduous than virtue . |