Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 2 | These days the word ‘ tourist ’ is generally associated with the package holiday-maker who follows a known itinerary and for whom all the arrangements are made by a travel company . |
| 3 | Social racism , which is a form of chauvinistic nationalism or tribalism , exists quite independently of the geneticists and biologists for whom alone the term race has some residual scientific validity . |
| 4 | Which took me straight back to my young friend on the terrace , for whom only the numbers count . |
| 5 | But I do believe that women experience another , relentless denial of their powers , which begins as soon as they can speak , if not before , and makes the act of writing for them primarily an act of rebellion . |
| 6 | He finds , in talking to Candice 's friends , that collaboration during the war has become for them either a means of attacking the government or a subject of high-minded discussion . |
| 7 | For them maybe the experience is cathartic , but for us , ready-made perfection equals staticity . |
| 8 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 9 | For them too the trick is to find a balance between proportionality and the faults voters feel in their form of PR . |
| 10 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
| 11 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 12 | And naturally , because for me hitherto the world had held no woman . |
| 13 | I used to go to him and say , ‘ Bill , please try and get them to do this ’ , and he did fight for me quite a lot , but it was an uphill struggle all the way . |
| 14 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 15 | When he called off his fast a week later , a pro-government newspaper headlined its story ‘ Maquio ends his diet ’ . |
| 16 | I thought that it was very polite that we should go there in the evening and assess for ourselves exactly the harm th the possible harm that it could do to their gardens at the back and and that 's why we did that . |
| 17 | If our county councillors do n't look after us then the future is bleak . |
| 18 | These can be used to sharpen skills of inference and to focus on underlying attitudes , prejudices and entrenched beliefs , about which even the subject himself may not have been fully conscious . |
| 19 | Either search affords to the purchaser a priority period during which either the transfer of registered land must be completed and an application made to HM Land Registry for its registration or the conveyance of unregistered land must be completed . |
| 20 | The column stopped abruptly and when the noise of aircraft climbing away from the raid faded into the distance there was a short silence during which only the chug-chug of many stationary vehicles could be heard . |
| 21 | In many places the wild greenery formed a natural barrier through which even the dogs were unable to pass . |
| 22 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 23 | My country is full of distinctions of this kind , and in the congenial climate of Oxford they flourish to form a semantic jungle through which only the natives can make their way . |
| 24 | Not that many came on any sort of regular basis , much preferring the excitement of the streets to the acquisition of learning for which even the teacher herself , who had known far better days , considered they would have little use . |
| 25 | Here is a job for which virtually no candidate ever seems to be properly qualified . |
| 26 | The work is based on a highly successful biology textbook for first examinations , for which only a braille transcription exists . |
| 27 | Mrs. Sturgess was the hard working cleaner/caretaker of St. Martin 's Boys ' School whilst her husband worked in one of the many mineral water factories , unfortunately he had lost one eye in an industrial accident for which apparently no compensation was paid . |
| 28 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 29 | In an Amazonomachy by Mikon in the Stoa Poikile at Athens was a notorious figure named Butes of whom only the helmet and one eye were to be seen , and there are less dramatic examples in some Amazons on the vase ( fig. 116 ) . |
| 30 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |