Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 3 | It also gives them protection as they venture across the open plains of sand , where there are no hiding places . |
| 4 | Thus it could be alleged that we are all vulnerable to this power , individuals having little control over their lives , in the shadow of a powerful and looming state which offers them protection and a set of civil/political rights , the main being to elect representatives in return for their acquiescence . |
| 5 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 6 | I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but |
| 7 | yeah we 'll have one of them mum |
| 8 | ( ‘ I tried to join the army when I got out of Borstal ’ , said Kev , an 18 year old skin , ‘ Do me bit and see the world and that . |
| 9 | ‘ Do me bit ? ’ said Dolly . |
| 10 | Since the manufacturers of ‘ Summer 's Eve ’ have complained to you about my comments on their product , I thought I 'd copy to you this letter sent to their PR representative when she sent me literature and samples . |
| 11 | Give everyone champagne . ’ |
| 12 | By not confronting its opponents ' lies when and wherever uttered , it gave them credence . |
| 13 | Although not implausible , these suggestions were not substantiated by any solid evidence , and we had therefore been reluctant to accord them credence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Allen pulled one back for West Ham to give them hope of at least a point . |
| 16 | This government is doing nothing to give them hope and their pride back . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The persons in respect of whom Parliament was legislating |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | The Conservative local associations are turning increasingly to young men of professional or business backgrounds for whom Parliament is a career . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | A likely story , retorted many letter writers , some of them whisky fanciers . |
| 30 | In the parlour you go , me lad , or I 'll crown yer with me kitchen poker . ’ |