Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb base] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other jurists between them reach a grand total of eleven cases ( none of which may be attributed to petitioners ) . |
| 2 | Because complementary medicine is a highly diverse category , the research will focus on and compare three complementary therapies — homeopaths , chiropractors and reflexologists — which between them illustrate a good selection of the issues faced by complementary practitioners and of the different ways in which these issues have been dealt with . |
| 3 | It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years . |
| 4 | Those who are looking after her have a difficult task and it should not be made more difficult by being harassed by requests for information . |
| 5 | That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice . |
| 6 | In addition the information society substitutes brain for brawn : 70 per cent of its jobs require intellectual skills and at least half of them require a professional qualification or education to degree standard . |
| 7 | Nearly all of them use a formulaic phrase : ‘ I dug him downstairs and his belly rolled over to there . ’ |
| 8 | He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail . |
| 9 | Many of them maintain a fixed parity between their own currencies and the French franc . |
| 10 | Some of them give a great deal of importance to using weak forms , but do not stress the importance of also knowing when to use the strong forms , something which I feel is very important . |
| 11 | The journalist sees new products coming through all the time , and though some of them represent a real breakthrough in their field most are not really very exciting . |
| 12 | Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products . |
| 13 | Visitors are catered for by hotels , guest houses and a large caravan park and many of them have a regular clientele . |
| 14 | Several of them have a vague impression of a coin-like disc near the base . |
| 15 | Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose . |
| 16 | However most of them have a strong sense that in this celebration of the Church , Christ himself is present and feeds with Word and Sacrament those who come to him through faith . |
| 17 | It is important that United Kingdom companies keep themselves informed of developments in these proposals , as many of them have a real effect on the day-to-day functioning of a UK company and its cost structure . |
| 18 | Yes , these are for the in-service B Ed. and various other courses like that , yes , and some of them have a scientific aspect to them and we 're involved in those as well . |
| 19 | All of them feature a private suite with a family bedroom with dressing rooms , WC and usually a bathroom ( with a shower ! ) on the main floor level and , depending on the size of the house , often a private sitting room , a boudoir , and even a breakfast room . |
| 20 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
| 21 | ( e ) Be sure students on your right and on your left as well as those in front of you have a good chance to see the flashcard and understand it . |
| 22 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 23 | " the true excellence of the English constitution [ is ] that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other . |
| 24 | As Christmas draws near , many of us cherish a cosy vision of spending it around a traditional open fire , toasting crumpets in its dancing flames . |
| 25 | There was a plain white card inside as well , saying , ‘ Only the artist realizes that some of us exert a Homeric effort simply to behave ordinarily , ’ but she had translated her declaration to him into Latin in a self-defeating impulse to disown it , and he never troubled to puzzle it out . |
| 26 | Obviously no academic course in Britain is geared towards working class Blackwomen 's experience across the board , but so many of us have a vast appetite for knowledge — for a herstory . |
| 27 | Some of us have a lower threshold of boredom ; some have a better physical metabolism ; others have a lower resistance to cold ; and so on . |
| 28 | Most of us have a certain elation after a successful ‘ performance ’ which relaxes inhibition and stimulates perception . |
| 29 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 30 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |