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

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1 People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict .
2 Food is the basic necessity of life and without it economic progress is impossible .
3 The choreographer can make an overall rhythm fur a long phrase of music and within it shorter phrases .
4 On 10 April 1982 , after Basrah crude had been regularly loading at Tripoli ( Lebanon ) and Banias for some while , the Syrian government — in a gesture of solidarity with Iran — closed the line and with it both ports .
5 There is great dryness and with it great thirst for cold water .
6 In the first place , the mass media are ‘ so deeply embedded in the [ political ] system that without them political activity in its contemporary forms could hardly carry on at all ’ .
7 It did not but the lowing herd wound its way to and from the milking sheds , and left the world to darkness and to us each night .
8 Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today .
9 The continuous recording of electrocardiogram and from it instantaneous heart rate was particularly valuable during events .
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