Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing has the shift remained a timeless classic . |
| 2 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 3 | Around the simple plot of the search for Lata 's husband , Seth unfolds the story of four families , the Mehras , Kapoors , Chatterjis and Khans , and through them reveals a panorama of modern India . |
| 4 | Controlling for them tests the original relationship between X and Y , and checks that it holds up . |
| 5 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 6 | This is not only because of the harmful effects they can have on the physical self but also because the need for them indicates a severe deficiency in the emotional self — a deficiency which needs to be helped and treated rather than disguised . |
| 7 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 8 | The thrust of their work points away from the particularities of individuality to engage in different ways with the significance of the Incarnation which for them provides the ultimate pattern of meaning for all men . |
| 9 | There are two child narrators who work in tandem , but distinguishing between them poses no problem , and their identity is never overtly threatened . |
| 10 | Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom . |
| 11 | In terms of their greenbelt function , the the the the boundary between them has no effect on the greenbelt purposes . |
| 12 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 13 | And through his britches the blue winds blow . |
| 14 | Caring for Someone provides a wealth of information on the range of benefits available for the person being cared for , and the carer . |
| 15 | This memorandum , issued by the physician superintendent of Neasden Hospital , London , to all his medical officers over 25 years ago , attracted widespread opprobrium from the UK national press and the chronologically correct if sexist response from the British Medical Journal that ‘ every patient whatever his age or his disease should be resuscitated unless the doctor looking after him has no doubt at all that he should be allowed to rest in peace ’ . |
| 16 | When young children have to be looked after it reduces the opportunities that parents have to take part in the social round . |
| 17 | Then , when the mean electron energy reaches about 1 MeV , it is possible for electrons to initiate neutronization reactions such as which requires a threshold energy of 3.7 MeV . |
| 18 | More secure dating to 22–10/9 BC , between which dates the entire city was founded and built , has only recently been possible . |
| 19 | When fully developed ( Figs. and 48 ) they consist essentially of a pair of claspers which help to grip the female during copulation and between which lies the aedeagus . |
| 20 | The zinc sulphide is then transferred to a vessel through which passes an inert gas , such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide . |
| 21 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 22 | These gentle domestic works have much in common with paintings by Winifred Nicholson , Christopher Wood and Frances Hodgkins , through which runs the thread of nature mediated by the imagination . |
| 23 | There 's an astoundingly dark deep gorge dividing Ben Alder and Aonach Beag called the Bealach Dubh , through which runs an eerie stalkers ' path . |
| 24 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 25 | They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples . |
| 26 | The rental of each office is on a month 's licence the fee for which includes the cost of a receptionist , rates , water and electricity , heating , lighting , insurance , cleaning maintenance , security , 24-hour access and secure parking . |
| 27 | The man opposite me yanks the communication cord , and we lurch to a halt . |
| 28 | How would we answer a modern philosopher , a Freudian psychologist , a follower of Guru Maharaj Ji , each of whom denies the truth of Christianity in a different way ? |
| 29 | In pride of place was one of Rembrandt 's great representations of the Holy Family , the two women by the cradle , one of whom reads a Holy book by the frail light of a candle . |
| 30 | The interest in policy outcomes is influenced by a model of pluralistic evaluation which identifies the major constituent groups of a policy initiative , each of whom attaches a different notion of criteria for success to an operation , plus different strategies for pursuing objectives . |