Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Most people have experienced directly or through reading about it the business of opinion research .
2 Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ?
3 They 're afraid of their fears and they feel that by talking about it the children will actually have more problems , so children , being very aware of the adults ' fears , will not talk .
4 It aims at winning over a man by the power of love and gentle persuasion and by arousing in him a sense of justice rather than forcing him to submit out of fear and embarrassment .
5 It aims , as we have shown , at winning a man over by the power of love and gentle persuasion and by arousing in him a sense of justice rather than by forcing him to submit out of fear and embarrassment .
6 Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes .
7 She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child .
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