Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Gorbachev is as uncertain as everyone about what the future of the two — perhaps one — German states will be , but there is no doubt that the Gorbachev vision of a new Europe had to encompass the Wall 's disappearance . |
| 2 | Easy — someone for whom the composer 's name does not always come after the words ‘ Gilbert and ’ . |
| 3 | To someone like myself the sum you mentioned is an enormous amount of money . ’ |
| 4 | The demand must also specify someone with whom the debtor can communicate with a view to securing or compounding for the debt to the creditor 's satisfaction or , as the case may be , establishing to the creditor 's satisfaction that there is a reasonable prospect that the debt will be paid when it falls due . |
| 5 | If she were a Lady , she would still be referred to as Mrs. X. If the person were a member of the nobility or someone in whom the press had an interest , rumour would start to circulate , and damage could not be avoided . |
| 6 | In the last two years , Hanson has been seen as a provider of last resort , as someone to whom the Government can turn for relief , especially its privatization programme runs into problems . |
| 7 | When secondhand goods are sold on the " as is " basis of Precedent 4 , the question arises as to the extent to which the seller can disclaim responsibility for their condition if they are to be used at work either by the buyer , or by someone to whom the buyer sells them . |
| 8 | Here is how one observer describes this peculiar meaning of have : In the have causative the causer assumes the causee 's " readiness to serve " ; the causee is treated as a cooperative performer of the causee 's will , as someone to whom the causer 's will can be communicated ( either directly or by an intermediary ) and who will be neither unable to understand it nor unwilling to perform it . |
| 9 | Hopefully , this will prove to be a posthumous tribute to someone to whom the Trust have cause to be grateful , and are much saddened by his death . |
| 10 | Then the best clothes were chosen , none of them the height of fashion nor even necessarily a good fit , but neat , tidy and clean . |
| 11 | s12 Every partner is liable jointly with his co-partners and also severally for everything for which the firm while he is a partner therein becomes liable under either of the two last preceding sections . |
| 12 | The polished Mr Baker , in defence of Mr Lawson 's interest rates , even brought himself to shout , something for which the conference handbook , in its Suggestions to Speakers on page 46 , says there is no need . |
| 13 | This intimacy also is something for which the world still waits . |
| 14 | Land could be sold or leased to public or private bodies for any purpose , even if the purpose was different from the one for which the land was purchased . |
| 15 | A beneficial health care activity is one that generates a positive number of QALYs , and an efficient health care activity is one for which the cost per QALY is low . |
| 16 | Of the three variables discussed by G. Sankoff ( 1980b ) , only syntactic constraints on variation are reported for the bai and que variables , the on variable being the only one for which the influence of a speaker variable ( age , in this case ) is reported . |
| 17 | To this effect , it suggested that as a general rule the police should be able to arrest an individual without a warrant if the crime which was suspected was one for which the individual could be jailed rather than simply fined . |
| 18 | The position is more complicated where one of the classes of liability concerned is one for which the UCTA forbids exclusion or restriction . |
| 19 | It 's a measure of their commitment to the cause of good design that their paramount concern is to make a page whose information can be readily absorbed , rather than to devise one for which the reader might need sunglasses . |
| 20 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 21 | Ken was the one for whom the word ‘ camp ’ could have been coined . |
| 22 | I wish done something about my the way I speak . |
| 23 | On no account should it be regarded as something through which the traveller passes quickly while hurrying on to the next destination . |
| 24 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 25 | That is something of which the Government are enormously proud . |
| 26 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's very exciting and something of which the region can be proud , ’ says CTC director Alasdair Ramsay . |
| 28 | Since the equilibrium level of income ( Y e ) ( the one towards which the economy tends ) is below the full employment level of income ( Y f ) , the economy will be suffering from demand-deficient unemployment . |
| 29 | Whether the risk is one against which the occupier may reasonably be expected to offer some protection will depend upon factors which are more usually taken into account when assessing the standard of care , e.g. the nature and extent of the risk , practicability of precautions and , possibly , the type of entrant . |
| 30 | An agreement which is described as a lease or a rental is essentially a contract of hire and a hire agreement is one under which the possession of the goods passes to the other party but the property in the goods ( the ownership ) remains with the supplier . |