Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 2 | Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels . |
| 3 | Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels . |
| 4 | Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity . |
| 5 | Moreover , individuals in a population will change in unison , with very little genetic variation between them during the period of change . |
| 6 | do nothing for a fortnight of course . |
| 7 | It does absolutely nothing for the child with potential . ’ |
| 8 | It does absolutely nothing for the child with potential . |
| 9 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 10 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 11 | It has also produced the Green Partnership , a 12-step programme implemented by the hotels , which guides them through a series of initiatives to make the properties more environmentally friendly . |
| 12 | The nuns led them through a series of exercises which encouraged them to think about the good in themselves , and to know that God , in His love for them , has forgiven their sins . |
| 13 | Their migration route to the Alaskan feeding grounds takes them through an area of ocean which is cluttered with drift-nets . |
| 14 | The dogs were mostly strays who had befriended American troops and accompanied them through the horrors of war . |
| 15 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 16 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 17 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 18 | Frequently , all that they will have to guide them through the recommendations of officials will be their own political common sense ; this may well be adequate for a strong minister , but others may find it hard to change the bureaucracy 's course . |
| 19 | The course is designed to give you a grasp of the basic rules and how to apply them through the means of classroom teaching , practical activities , brainstormers , puzzles and the use of the microcomputer . |
| 20 | Yet God still speaks by his Spirit to throw fresh light on his word so that we might see its relevance to the contemporary world , and he speaks to his servants to guide them through the perplexities of life . |
| 21 | She took two pills from a bottle by the bed on which she had thrown herself and crushed them between the pages of Mansfield Park . |
| 22 | ‘ The King apportioned them between the monastery at Kinrimund and the priory at St Serf 's until the heirs grew from childhood . |
| 23 | Throw them off the board on purpose and , you know you lose all your money ! |
| 24 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 25 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 26 | WHEN Mrs Norma Major first came to our attention , she was reported to either make her own clothes or buy them off the peg from John Lewis . |
| 27 | The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts , as though punishing them for bad behaviour . |
| 28 | But , supposing we look at the same material from the standpoint of , say the authors of the Upanishads , with whom as a matter of fact I happen to agree . |
| 29 | Pembridge said last night : ‘ I do n't know what the background is — all I know is he elbowed me for no reason at Highbury . |
| 30 | My father 's passion for Tracey Childs prepared me for a life of drama |