Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pray for those known to us who are poor , homeless , in prison , those who are hungry , those who are sick , those who we name in our thoughts at this time ; O God , be with those for whom we pray at this time ; comfort and deliver them from their suffering ; strengthen them and be with them ; |
| 2 | The breach of duty consists not of allowing the conflict of interest to arise because that is often outside the control of the director , but of the director 's preferring his own personal interests to those of persons for whom he acts as fiduciary , or of taking advantage of such a position . |
| 3 | Asclepiodatus can , therefore , be seen as beginning his career in the service of Guntram , for whom he acted as referendary , transferring to Childebert in 593 , and then becoming patricius of Provence under Childebert 's sons . |
| 4 | But for them it feels like such a disaster after the first phase , that they do n't know what to do about it . |
| 5 | And at the end of the reform agenda would be the electoral question : how does John Smith persuade the two-thirds of the British population who are , as he says , ‘ doing all right ’ to pay more in taxes in order to support the under-privileged one third about whom he speaks with such genuine passion ? |
| 6 | We can witness all these in Worsley 's book in which he demonstrates that architectural draughtsmanship reached a point of perfection by 1837 , after which it degenerated into mere technical proficiency , when even bodies such as the Institute of British Architects condemned the use of colour and supplementary foreground activities that had previously made competition perspectives more attractive . |
| 7 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 8 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 9 | But he treated the democracy about which he boasted to foreign journalists with near contempt when it stood in the way of his domestic ambitions . |
| 10 | Each evening , the child was given a piece of chalk and shown how to cross the days off which he did with great satisfaction . |
| 11 | A decent interval elapsed , during which we looked at each other rather anxiously . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly one of the most important milestones in the Nicol career was his selection for the Scottish tour to North American in May 1991 , during which he played in three of the six games and scored a try in each one : ‘ That really was the start of things . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister , Marian Calfa , paid an official visit to South Africa on May 4-6 , during which he stressed in particular the advantage to both countries of closer economic co-operation . |
| 14 | Paul Parker , the vice-captain , amassed 297 runs in his first three first-class innings , during which he batted for 14 hours . |
| 15 | It was the beginning of a lifelong association , during which he rose through successive levels of the organization to become director-general in 1970 . |
| 16 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 17 | Marxism 's claim to the status of a science proper thus functions as a device to avoid the historicity through which it accounts for other phenomena . |
| 18 | Land acquisition , site assembly , land reclamation , infrastructural improvement and environmental enhancement are the means through which it engages with local authorities , the Department of Environment and most importantly , the private sector to lever investment that will lead to economic growth . |
| 19 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 20 | By the time she reached the shorter flight of stairs on the half-landing , Frankie had retreated all the way to his room and closed the door behind him , leaving only the smallest gap through which he peered with one eye . |
| 21 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 23 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 24 | Stoker then volunteered as unpaid dramatic critic of the Dublin Mail , for which he wrote for five years while retaining his clerkship . |
| 25 | But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law . |
| 26 | Well we went to one of them they went to one of them there . |
| 27 | And in Britain the proportions of them who depend on social assistance seem to be higher than anywhere else . |
| 28 | The only one of them who appeared in public from time to time was the Conte 's daughter , who was already past what was considered a marriageable age . |
| 29 | Some , Allen guessed , had been several weeks unused ; others , not since the winter rains ; of one of them he said with more certainty that it had been used recently , perhaps yesterday . |
| 30 | Well , some of them you greet with more affection than others , it must be said . |