Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controlling for them tests the original relationship between X and Y , and checks that it holds up . |
| 2 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 3 | The thrust of their work points away from the particularities of individuality to engage in different ways with the significance of the Incarnation which for them provides the ultimate pattern of meaning for all men . |
| 4 | Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom . |
| 5 | And through his britches the blue winds blow . |
| 6 | One of them extends the Fourth Directive to both partnerships ( whether limited or unlimited ) and unlimited companies , in either case where the partners or shareholders themselves have limited liability . |
| 7 | And behind all of them lies the archetypal opposition between good and evil , light and darkness , creation and destruction , God and the Devil . |
| 8 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 9 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 10 | The figures do afford some comparability between years , and even a brief examination of them shows the great shift from wool to cloth as England 's main export commodity . |
| 11 | Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form |
| 12 | It must pay to reach the point at which the marginal benefit to one of you equals the marginal cost to the other . |
| 13 | you can take a friend and whichever of you has the cheaper meal that 's what |
| 14 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 15 | AND still there are two nations in England , if only because part of it thinks the other part is somewhere else . |
| 16 | Victor 's face as the match flares in front of it has the rapt attention of a man lighting a fuse . |
| 17 | Surely the question is whether the land on each side of it has the same greenbelt function , or different greenbelt functions ? |
| 18 | It would seem amazingly out of step for east European countries to be finding their national indentities after 40 years of being forced into artificial political groupings while the rest of Europe was seeking to impose federalism and political union on its member states at the same moment when they are starting down the road to a single European market — perhaps the acid test of how much one of us wants the Common Market to succeed . |
| 19 | None of us welcomes the unpleasant responses it stimulates . |
| 20 | It depends which of us has the most patience . ’ |
| 21 | Behind them towers the 33,000 ton USS Pennsylvania , still flying the morning colours . |
| 22 | Beneath it lies the limbic system , seat of the strong emotions and intuitive responses which we share with birds and lower mammals . |
| 23 | But this business of the missing ship and what lies behind it puts the whole negotiation in jeopardy . |
| 24 | Above them hovers the white wool vapour of their breath , beneath them the fresh overnight snow is beaten to another layer of ice . |
| 25 | Above them towers the snow-capped Mount Illimani , symbol and guardian of La Paz . |
| 26 | According to the Unemployment Unit 's calculations including them takes the jobless total to more than three million . |
| 27 | Into it comes the shamanic figure of ‘ An Unidentified Guest ’ who is in control of potent and primitive forces , which the other characters do not seem to understand . |
| 28 | From me flows the dark stream of terror and destruction . ’ |
| 29 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 30 | Surely you can see that the very serious element in it puts the straightforward demonstration ‘ Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out' ’ protest song , in its place and makes it seem trite and a little bit cosy ? ’ |