Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've won every game since losing at Swindon , who of course are right behind them in the table . |
| 2 | For most of my time in the House , I have been dissatisfied with them in the same way as I was dissatisfied with private Bills . |
| 3 | But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner . |
| 4 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 5 | The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time . |
| 6 | I am grateful to you for the information . |
| 7 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 8 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 9 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 10 | I I ca n't , I ca n't understand why we 're involved in it in the way we are . |
| 11 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 12 | Things had been tense between us throughout the two-year preparation period . |
| 13 | He 'd been conscious of her in the old days of course , although he kept quiet about that . |
| 14 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 15 | They come together regularly to discuss standards of recruitment and recruits in the area , as well as the standards of the management committee members who are involved with them in the interviewing process . |
| 16 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 17 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 18 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 19 | We are all of us at the mercy of our adrenaline , and there is a very fine dividing line between being justifiably keyed up and ready to do your best and being rendered helpless by panic . |
| 20 | ( Stimulus A of fig. 5.10 might be said to be enriched , if only a little , by virtue of its ability to evoke the image of X. ) The differentiation theory , in contrast , holds that ‘ percepts change over time by progressive elaboration of qualities , features and dimensions of variation ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) , that is , by an elaboration of aspects of the stimulus that are present in it from the outset . |
| 21 | While the evidence he cites shows that Y-cells may be capable of sustaining some form of pattern vision it does not show that they are responsible for it in the normal brain . |
| 22 | We too are called to exchange the things that are important to us for the sake of the transformation God wishes to work in us . |
| 23 | She said , " There are ten of us in the house now . |
| 24 | Any one network junction has topological neighbours , that is , junctions connected to it along a common chain , but it also possesses spatial neighbour junctions — junctions which may in fact be nearer to it in the continuum space but which belong to other chains . |
| 25 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
| 26 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 27 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 28 | He need not be interested in it at the time when the insurance is effected . |
| 29 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 30 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |