Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On or around them the chief bookshops are to be found .
2 Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected .
3 Alec said that for him the daily instruction from the word of God in one 's quiet time was the place where , over a period of weeks , we should receive guidance from God .
4 I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much .
5 Bourgeois democracy was seen as a facade , concealing the fact that behind it the capitalist class continued to rule and dominate bourgeois society .
6 In the epistle to the Hebrews ( by an unknown Christian of learning and sophistication ) there is equal emphasis both upon the spontaneity and fullness of Jesus ' humanity and upon the faith that in him the eternal Son of the Father has come to unite believers to himself ; he is the pioneer of our salvation , our representative bringing to the Father and to the heavenly company those who put their trust in him .
7 This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life .
8 They could have easily made that to us the local planners who have to determine what kind of jobs go where and we could have discussed it with them .
9 Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances .
10 In the foreground are the old bogies , in the background the old top-cover , and between them the newly-constructed sides .
11 C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used .
12 Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ .
13 A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment .
14 On landings above and below them the same routine was in practice .
15 A Mercedes and a Zim , bumper to bumper , blocking both lanes of the carriageway and behind them the menacing silhouette of a T-77 tank , its barrel aimed directly at the oncoming van .
16 Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands .
17 I could hear the talk at the next table , the staccato clatter of Mexican , and behind me the piercing voice of an American woman .
18 Or to take a comparison from fishing , she was bait : soft , swirling gracefully , juicy , to be gobbled in a mouthful , sucked in and with her the impaling point of the hard property deal also known as marriage .
19 The conditions of the farm worker , and with them the everyday life of the village community , could vary considerably across the country according to the distribution of landholding , the nature of agricultural production and the pattern of settlement .
20 It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films .
21 Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 .
22 Wars became ever more expensive , and with them the national debt rose to heights that to contemporaries seemed awesome ( see Table 9.2 ) .
23 Some people worry that this argument , along with cheating by Iraq , North Korea and others , could fatally undermine the NPT , and with it the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons .
24 And with it the unbelievable fact that she had survived .
25 In Franco they possessed a leader who , notwithstanding German and Italian annoyance at his lack of dynamism and broad vision , was a first-rate field commander , devoted to the gradual but irreversible conquest of territory and with it the total subjection of the Spanish population .
26 The definition also removes the present reference to expectation and with it the possible argument that goods which are generally of low quality generate low expectations .
27 Britain still has the highest debt to income ratio in Europe and the appetite for credit may not be blunted until the review date comes and with it the monetary day of doom .
28 Ludger Beerbaum won the final showjumping World Cup qualifier , and with it the European League , in a two-horse jump-off on Saturday .
29 In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited .
30 Rosen is not alone in fearing the return of the work sheet , the fixed course of study , and with it the empty library , and the elimination of support for those splendid creatures , teachers with a mission to find the book that suits the child .
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