Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friedan psychopathologizes women 's frustration with domesticity , and proposes the male-identified tactics of better education and paid work outside the home as ways for them to reach the male-associated goals of high self-esteem and strong identity . |
| 2 | It was appreciated that , being obese , it was not easy for them to climb the three sets of stairs leading to our house . |
| 3 | It is hard for them to convince the rich countries to make sacrifices on their behalf . |
| 4 | Moreover , advancing west and northwest respectively , as the two armies were , produced a potentially calamitous separation of the two forces , for between them lay the Masurian Lakes , a complex of waters stretching some 80km/50mls north to south . |
| 5 | They were in a minority but were expected between them to meet the sexual needs of the men . |
| 6 | There was nothing for it but for me to drive the ten miles there and back and pick it up , because the doctors would need to examine him and sign the certificate at 6.30 . |
| 7 | In those circumstances it is unnecessary for me to discuss the rival contentions of fact or to reach any conclusion upon whether , if Winchester had been enabled to make representations before 30 October , those representations would have made any difference . |
| 8 | And through his britches the blue winds blow . |
| 9 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 10 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 11 | Anyone opening a computer magazine will find themselves confronted with a bewildering array of advertisements , all of them promising the greatest deals known to mankind . |
| 12 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 13 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 14 | Many of them wore the chequered scarves of the Palestinian fedayeen , the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 15 | The best of them learned the basic principles from AlB and subsequently broadened their knowledge as their experience expanded . |
| 16 | What 's funny about it is , they actually do like each other ; they just do n't realise that both of them have the same views in everything . |
| 17 | Yanto brought the overloaded bike to a skidding halt just short of the sharply rising earth bank , the other side of which lay the muddy banks of the river . |
| 18 | The most complex of the risings was the Pilgrimage of Grace , the problems of which have been covered in two important papers , both of which stress the varying motives of the participants ( 68 ; 69 ) . |
| 19 | The high prison population is held responsible for overcrowding and understaffing in prisons , both of which exacerbate the bad conditions in England 's ageing prisons . |
| 20 | The retina consists of the inner lining at the back of the eye and is a delicate membrane , constructed of ten different layers , one of which contains the two types of light-sensitive cells , the rods and cones . |
| 21 | As proof of his sanctity , the latter describes various miracles after the saint 's death , one of which concerns the Danish leaders who were among his murderers . |
| 22 | All of which beg the following questions . |
| 23 | get a question on water , which is very common , you get sort of you get the full marks to it . |
| 24 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 25 | The third ‘ sacred myth ’ of literacy is that transferring a set of technical skills to illiterates will of itself create the necessary conditions for economic growth and prosperity . |
| 26 | Again , they operate with similar typifications of who constitute the troublesome clients , based partly on experience but also heavily influenced by stereotypes of the educationally subnormal , one-parent families , families in whom historically crime runs , and so on . |
| 27 | If only you were aware of we did the other things |
| 28 | Then he moved , and the hard strength of him dissolved the very bones within her as she lay dazzled beneath the forest sky . |
| 29 | The trick of combining lower marginal tax rates with a higher average tax take comes from the stepped progression of the tax system : as incomes rise people 's taxable income rises proportionately faster and larger slices of it attract the higher rates . |
| 30 | Yet it is an objective standard which the directors themselves define , and not one that is imposed upon them by the courts , who regard it as illegitimate to substitute their own view of what constitutes the best interests of the company or the shareholders for that of the directors of the company . |