Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were additional factors with this family which compounded their inevitable distress , not least the subsequent diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in an elder son , in whom signs of clinical abnormality had been recognised before the birth of his younger brother . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Allen pulled one back for West Ham to give them hope of at least a point . |
| 7 | Seven hundred boys , almost a third of them sons of the clergy , lived their ‘ ultra-Spartan ’ lives in an institution which combined frequently brutal discipline with a consistently meagre diet . |
| 8 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 9 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |
| 10 | , Current editions of the UK half-million ICAO Aeronautical Charts have scattered across them pairs of numbers printed in blue , one large figure followed by a smaller one , thus : for example . |
| 11 | It should acknowledge that there are conflicts between critical approaches , and should make the students ' confrontation of them part of the pedagogic process . |
| 12 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 13 | Jimmy Schmidt , the nationally renowned chef and owner of Detroit 's Rattlesnake Club , considers them part of ‘ a holy trinity … caviar , morel mushrooms and truffles . ’ |
| 14 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |
| 15 | Unscrupulous model agencies and sponsors claim she is under contract to them and owes them part of her winnings . |
| 16 | If you 've got points you 've been unable to answer you 've got to make them part of the report back which wastes yet more valuable practitioner time . ’ |
| 17 | More often , the Provisionals intimidated the owners of bombed buildings into sharing with them part of the compensation . |
| 18 | That the BIS was a mixture of unconventional religion and radical politics was further underlined by the support of Garrison and his emissaries from the United States ; British India development as a way of undermining British dependence on American cotton was equally for them part of a package , which included association with ‘ moral force ’ Chartists and hostility to evangelical ‘ sectarianism ’ in antislavery in the form of the BFASS , a view they held despite Sturge 's middle-class political radicalism . |
| 19 | If you have a sweet tooth , it is much better to make them part of a meal . |
| 20 | One day the farmer thought , " I could increase those rabbits : make them part of my farm — their meat , their skins . |
| 21 | If you begin to apply some of these techniques to your studies and make them part of your habits of thought , you 'll find it much easier to solve problems , to write better essays and to produce higher-scoring examination answers . |
| 22 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 23 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 24 | The purser gave them part of the ship where they could do " all sorts of things in the morning — singing , drawing , competitions " . |
| 25 | Given the tremendous wealth in the far eastern regions of the former USSR , should we not consider them part of Europe if we are to try to expand the European Community for the benefit of all mankind ? |
| 26 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 27 | Is she alright now without them or does she have to wear them part of the time ? |
| 28 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |
| 29 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 30 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |