Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like mantises that eat their mates , or are eaten by them during intimate congress — even knowing that such a fate must occur — they were fraternally drawn to one another , obeying a bizarre tropism . |
| 2 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 3 | She was involved in some of the student protests against them during that period ; but at the end of the day she still felt that an English education was a necessary tool for survival for her children . |
| 4 | What we ha If we do n't support them during that period , how on earth do we get them to be two years old ? |
| 5 | Great attention was paid to the pollution which resulted from contact with them during these periods , with vital purification rituals being prescribed to avert the danger to both individuals and community ( in particular , the male religious community , see below ) and restrictions imposed on their movement , particularly with regard access to the cult , during their times of uncleanness . |
| 6 | And the previous level of frankness in communication between the spouses about these matters can narrow or widen the possibility of stress between them during these communications in a hospital ward . |
| 7 | Ruined churches still stand as testaments to the women and children burnt alive in them during those years . |
| 8 | The words of the Principal , , to the graduates of 1992 , and the fundamental reasoning behind the launch two years ago of the University 's Environmental Initiative to imbue staff and students with an awareness of environmental problems and the resolve to confront them through integrated teaching , research and institutional behaviour . |
| 9 | It is in these circumstances that there occurs , according to Merton , a situation of anomie , with people striving for goals of material success , but not having the opportunities to reach them through legitimate means . |
| 10 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
| 11 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 12 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 13 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 14 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 15 | The newspaper group plans to shed 33 jobs , about 25 of them through compulsory redundancy , leaving it with 400 staff to service the Daily and Sunday Telegraph . |
| 16 | But Thomas Kuhn has argued that even the concepts and laws become intelligible in practice only as components of a disciplinary matrix which he calls the ‘ paradigm ’ , in which the scientist learns to apply them through concrete instances of problem-solving which serve as models in approaching new puzzles . |
| 17 | Five management personnel brought in a local French teacher , Eileen Hutchinson through Pontefract company ‘ Communication 92 ’ to lead them through two hours of French instruction each week using a text book and cassette tape course . |
| 18 | In tests at Linkoping University the paint removed around 80 per cent of smelly chemicals — absorbing them through tiny pores . |
| 19 | Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards . |
| 20 | learning to express feelings rather than suppress them through addictive processes . |
| 21 | It gives readers that necessary tug which will take them through all sorts of possibly wearisome matters to the final page . |
| 22 | and push them through that loop , it looks |
| 23 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 24 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 25 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 26 | Wherever we turn we have woods , smooth downs , and valleys with small brooks running down them through green meadows … |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the only people making money' out of BBC programmes are the pirates , who are busily taping programmes ‘ off-air ’ , duplicating and selling them through shady shops and Middle Eastern outlets . |
| 28 | The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction . |
| 29 | He argues that the traditional forms of representative government , which effectively excluded the popular masses or isolated and controlled them through local notables , is ‘ no longer an adequate instrument ’ . |
| 30 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |