Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Trustees advance £20,000 to X who is the agent for the settlor and who is accountable to the settlor for the monies . |
2 | Now I see no evidence in the er proposals of the other two groups of those qualities , there I do not see coherent form of covering for the contingencies that we could face and I see a real unwillingness to indicate how they would tackle priorities . |
3 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
4 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
5 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
6 | Oh goodness , yes for the damage and you had to go in front of the Harbourmaster . |
7 | Will your household insurance pay for the damage if you spill a can of paint over your wall-to-wall carpet , put your foot through the bedroom ceiling , or demolish a load-bearing wall and bring half your home tumbling about your ears ? |
8 | The problem with this approach is that it does n't allow for the possibility that there are additional cellular mechanisms of plasticity in mammals , that have evolved to underpin our greater learning abilities . |
9 | However , in all these experiments only high imagery words varying in age of acquisition were used , which does not allow for the possibility that there is an interaction between visual field , imagery and age of acquisition . |
10 | Personal survival entailed preparing for the possibility that it could n't be stopped . |
11 | How can we allow for the possibility that someone might request an opinion antagonistically , by picking on someone who does not want to speak ? |
12 | Secondly , and allowing for the possibility that our global score might have detected minor increases in the mucosal neutrophils in some cases of mild active duodenitis , the number of patients with heavy neutrophilic infiltration ( severe active duodenitis ) was also greater in the absence of NSAIDs . |
13 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
14 | and sharpened up with typical 20th-century cynicism by the American lyricist Stephen Sondheim : I 've got those " God why do n't you love me , oh you do I 'll see you later " blues , That " long as you ignore me , you 're the only thing that matters " feeling , That " if I 'm good enough for you , you 're not good enough " And " thank you for the present but what 's wrong with it ? " stuff . |
15 | They 're responsible for the , for the present that they keep , they keep sending us this and that minister , and that . |
16 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
17 | Yet the irony was that there was no support in Cabinet for the proposals and they had almost reached the point of rejection when the leak took place . |
18 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
19 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
20 | I urge that there should be no such hasty reaction to what is not only a tragedy for the patient and his family but a tragedy for two medical practitioners , their families , and their peer group of forensic medical examiners . |
21 | . So the erm Woman 's Own rubber rhyme erm begins Aahs for the runs and I modestly blush , aahs for the runs in your girdle . |
22 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
23 | This series of squares is disquieting as it heads for the horizon unless it allows for the curvature of the Earth . |
24 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
25 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
26 | So we are looking for a new name that we shall use for the discs when they are eventually released . |
27 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |
28 | Thank you , Father , for the fellowship that you want us to enjoy in the church . |
29 | see , for the lights so you were n't allowed to put the lights on you see for the bombers . |
30 | I have used four stitches on each bed for the sample but you can vary this number to suit your button . |