Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny 's mother seemed excited about seeing the new outfit herself . |
| 2 | To the administrators concerned with the welfare of the Masai , however , it seemed that they had a very good case for keeping the enormous area which had been assigned to them . |
| 3 | For example , Nigel Lawson chaired the Sub-Committee that dealt with Lord Mackay 's proposals for reforming the legal system which were later embodied in the Courts and Legal Services Bill . |
| 4 | The responsibility for challenging the conventional wisdom which surrounds the concept of needs rests heavily on the shoulders of those teachers aware of the injustice in the present system . |
| 5 | From our own experience we know that sociology , psychology , political science and anthropology have proved much richer sources of theoretical models and general concepts with which to equip students for understanding the social environment they inhabit . |
| 6 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 7 | After climbing the ancient fence which bordered the pub 's premises , he leaned back against the fence for another breather . |
| 8 | After surveying the general scene it is useful to look at existing differences between educators about each of the four main activities . |
| 9 | After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better . |
| 10 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 11 | ‘ I played pretty well for so early in the tournament , ’ said Seles after handing the French girl her third successive first round defeat here . |
| 12 | After studying the small lake he knew instinctively that if there was a fish it was in this pool . |
| 13 | After murdering the resulting child he was hanged in London in January 1679 . |
| 14 | This was assumed to mean that before the British Parliament was asked to ratify , there would need to be a clear plan for addressing the Danish veto which was likely to be acceptable to the Danish people . |
| 15 | There is nothing which conflicts with the integrity of the United Kingdom in securing to Scotsmen in that or some other way an effective means of shaping the special legislation which affects them and only them . |
| 16 | Without high social standards throughout the Community , the Single Market will encourage companies to continue trying to compete by cutting costs — moving to the areas with low wages , low environmental protection and low skills — instead of pursuing the only strategy which offers success in the global economy , that of high-skill , high-wage , high-quality production . |
| 17 | Yet what really were the chances of seeing the very car you 'd been asked to look out for ? |
| 18 | This procedure creates the variable , but instead of returning the created variable itself , it returns a pointer to it . |
| 19 | The decision was opposed by many , including some who were pro-choice ( in favour of women deciding for themselves ) , on the grounds that the court 's decision was apparently based more on a balancing of policy interests than on specifically legal argument , and it had the effect of stimulating the anti-abortion movement which in turn became a major part of the New Right . |
| 20 | But , in principle , there are ways of understanding the social world which dispense with individuals , at least as prime movers , and ways of explaining it which rely on them . |
| 21 | Antonio was positively bouncing with the honour of serving the big man himself . |
| 22 | This has the effect of diverting our attention away from previous cases where the method has failed and hence of escaping the sceptical argument which takes its start from those cases . |
| 23 | And so behaviourist weight loss programmes offer both women and men the possibility of replacing the feminine body which excess weight represents , with a more masculine , in-control one , which will also provide women with some female-specific gains ( e.g. Rachlin 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Quite distinct from the implications for increased efficiency , where managers are seen as holding positions of power for the purpose of furthering the public interest it is appropriate that there should be public participation in the formulation of appropriate performance standards and that those who have culpably fallen below them should be held to account in a public forum . |
| 25 | As Laurence Martin has said : ‘ It is impossible to refute entirely the criticism that the various strategies of limitation may appear to make the world safe for nuclear warfare and thereby hasten its onset ’ ; but he concluded : ‘ The proper question may therefore be not , should we contemplate limited nuclear war , but , should we consider the ways of limiting the nuclear war which is henceforth always a possibility ’ ( Howard , 1979 , pp. 119 and 120 ) . |
| 26 | Certainly simulation by shifting to other viewpoints is a kind of analogizing the active kind which makes myself like instead of recognizing as alike . |
| 27 | In the first place , he believed that Marx had bequeathed a method of analysing the social process which was scientific , which went to the very roots of reality . |
| 28 | The notion of ‘ topic ’ is clearly an intuitively satisfactory way of describing the unifying principle which makes one stretch of discourse ‘ about ’ something and the next stretch ‘ about ’ something else , for it is appealed to very frequently in the discourse analysis literature . |
| 29 | Mr d'Ancona recalls : ‘ OSO started with the simple remit of cutting the umbilical cord which linked US oil companies with their established suppliers in the Gulf of Mexico , who were for the most part American . ’ |
| 30 | Equally , it could avail itself of the insights of ‘ systems analysis ’ , a mode of examining the penal system which we explain in Chapter 9 . |