Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Tories have identified 73 constituencies , 11 of them marginals , where where 100 or more overseas residents have registered to cast proxy votes on April 9 . |
| 32 | ‘ I come twice a week at a pound a time , so that 's thirteen , say , and then there 's all the times I 've come with me cans . |
| 33 | All of these guidelines , many of them well-intentioned and prepared with care , have been aimed at making primary schools fulfil a predetermined function — to prepare young children for the secondary stage and to give them enthusiasm for learning . |
| 34 | ‘ And them Druids were disgusting with their tatty beards and dirty finger-nails — ‘ |
| 35 | ‘ Even at fifty-five , not a soul with sense in his head will go near me Da' . ’ |
| 36 | Next to him his wife , a tall rangy woman whom Sven Hjerson somehow saw even here as being astride a hunter , was leaning forward tapping the tips of the fingers of each hand one against the other . |
| 37 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 38 | Allen pulled one back for West Ham to give them hope of at least a point . |
| 39 | This government is doing nothing to give them hope and their pride back . |
| 40 | Seven hundred boys , almost a third of them sons of the clergy , lived their ‘ ultra-Spartan ’ lives in an institution which combined frequently brutal discipline with a consistently meagre diet . |
| 41 | , John James ( 1811–1883 ) , physicist and physical chemist , was born in 1811 in Edinburgh , the sixth of nine children , at least five of them sons , of George Waterston , a manufacturer of sealing-wax and stationery requisites , of Edinburgh , and his wife Jane Blair of Dunkeld . |
| 42 | , Richard Austin ( 1862–1943 ) , detective-story writer , was born 11 April 1862 at 27 Thayer Street , in Marylebone , London , the youngest of five children ( four of them sons ) of Richard Freeman , a journeyman tailor who rose to become the manager of a bespoke tailoring business , and his wife Ann Maria Dunn . |
| 43 | Instead , holdings and dealings would be recorded electronically in an account , corresponding to a bank account , with one of a number of ‘ account operators , ’ linked to TAURUS , from whom shareholders would be able to obtain at any time documentary evidence of the state of their accounts . |
| 44 | It is planned to establish close links between the new Institute and universities , particularly in the north , with whom discussions have already taken place . |
| 45 | Some researchers with whom discussions have been held admit to copying theses obtained on inter-library loan , and justify such behaviour by saying that ‘ it 'll be all right as long as I do n't publish ’ . |
| 46 | Many of the prisoners to whom ITN spoke were too scared to talk in front of the TV cameras . |
| 47 | We see history produced in history departments , philosophy in philosophy departments , sociology in sociology departments , and so on , by academics for whom teaching and research are two aspects of a unified activity . |
| 48 | But there are erm others who , for whom teaching is the major aspect and the major important role that they perceive for themselves erm but there is always a balance and on balance , taken over the whole system , I should think that most people spend fifty or sixty per cent of their time on research . |
| 49 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 50 | said a ‘ broad principle , ’ requires an inquiry to be made as to the person with respect to whom Parliament is presumed , in the particular case , to be legislating . |
| 51 | From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit . |
| 52 | The persons in respect of whom Parliament was legislating |
| 53 | So I cast around to see whether there is some other limitation implicit in the legislation : is there some other class with respect to whom Parliament is to be presumed to have been legislating ? |
| 54 | The Conservative local associations are turning increasingly to young men of professional or business backgrounds for whom Parliament is a career . |
| 55 | This protected what Lord Bridge called the safeguards built into the judicial review procedure which protected from ‘ harassment ’ public authorities on whom Parliament imposed a duty . |
| 56 | The nursing and medical libraries can be made accessible to you , as can the skills of the librarian , for whom finding that elusive reference you have searched for can become a personal crusade . |
| 57 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 58 | Di did you show them Popsey ? |
| 59 | He called them seductions , interestingly enough , rather than child sex abuse , as we would perhaps now call it . |
| 60 | In an Oxford pub on the last day of the season we got the song ‘ Who 's the champions now , scum , who 's the champions now ? ’ chanted at us ( tune Tie me kangeroo down ) . |