Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In tests at Linkoping University the paint removed around 80 per cent of smelly chemicals — absorbing them through tiny pores . |
| 12 | Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards . |
| 13 | learning to express feelings rather than suppress them through addictive processes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The brutality with which Charlemagne 's armies brought the Saxons to enforced Christianity and extracted tithes from them through new ecclesiastical foundations stands clearly revealed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wherever we turn we have woods , smooth downs , and valleys with small brooks running down them through green meadows … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | They take some of Britain 's toughest and most notorious criminals and put them through intense therapy ; forcing them to confront what they did and why . |
| 24 | Big firms have long ago weaned themselves off their dependence on the banks who , in the 1960s and 1970s , supported them through thin times and thick . |
| 25 | It was a delight to travel on them through exciting scenery that would otherwise have been out of reach . |
| 26 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 27 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 28 | Progressives , and radicals supporting reorganization of the schools and the introduction of non-streaming , are carrying their attack upon the grammar schools ' élitism into the curriculum , dismantling the traditional subjects by rearranging them through interdisciplinary work , projects and themes . |
| 29 | Fen was leaving the well-worn path now to fight a way for them through giant cow parsley and into a beechwood offering shelter from prying eyes . |
| 30 | In focusing on concrete outcomes of social activity , and explaining them through natural causal models , geographers have disguised the social origins of these outcomes and the political assumptions and implications of their theories . |