Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class teachers are the main category of professionals involved in the education of children , and more detailed information about them is given in the next section . |
| 2 | The difference between them is to do with the starting point which they adopt and the nature and scope of the changes that are envisaged . |
| 3 | In practice , the sleep/wake cycle seems to exert an important effect upon many of our daily rhythms and the timing of many of them is determined by the time of mid-sleep or the middle of our waking hours . |
| 4 | But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable . |
| 5 | Thus unreasonable or unusual terms may be held not to have been incorporated into the contract unless special notice of them is given in the contract ( Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 348 ) . |
| 6 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 7 | More sophisticated rules for smoothing these end values are available , but discussion of them is postponed for the present . |
| 8 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |
| 9 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 10 | This creeps across the shelf and down the continental slope , spreading along the sea-bed ; much of it is formed over the shelves of the Weddell and Ross bights , and from there it spreads far northward into the northern hemisphere . |
| 11 | When the sun 's rays hit the Earth a lot of the heat is reflected back into space but some of it is kept within the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 12 | The insert procedure itself varies somewhat from model to model , but the essence of it is to arrange for the over-recording to end at a pre-determined out point . |
| 13 | If I said some of it is n't made from the words or the message some of it is made from the tone of your voice . |
| 14 | I make no attempt to define satisfactory ; for apart from the truism that it must not be so large that the individual member of it is lost in the crowd and hence in his own view and in that of those who lead , instruct or represent him , reduced to an impersonal average , what makes a satisfactory constituency will vary from case to case . |
| 15 | The most dominant structural factor in the work is that much of it is cast in the form of canticles . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes . |
| 17 | The trustee 's resignation is effective from the date the notice of it is filed by the official receiver at court ( r 6.127(7) ) . |
| 18 | In Madeira the local branch of it is dominated by the charismatic figure of Dr Alberto João Jardim and at any election , national or local , the party can count on between sixty-five and seventy per cent of the votes cast in the island . |
| 19 | Ostland lies on the far side of the Middle Mountains and a great part of it is occupied by the Forest of Shadows . |
| 20 | The region near the zenith looks rather dull , because much of it is occupied by the vast , dim Hydra . |
| 21 | Less bone is ingested by diurnal raptors , because some of it is left with the uneaten carcase after soft parts have been stripped off , whereas more of the bone is eaten by owls . |
| 22 | Much of it is preserved in the former DDR and now , thanks to German re-unification and to a renewed appreciation of grandiose kitsch , this great self-styled ‘ Universalkünstler ’ of the German fin-de-siècle can now be rediscovered at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut . |
| 23 | Levi-Strauss ( 1969 ) noted that such taboos certainly exist and a notorious modern example of it is found in the immorality laws of South Africa which forbid sexual relations between blacks and whites . |
| 24 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 25 | One of the best forms of supplement is haemoglobin iron which is derived from beef blood and is completely natural ( virtually 100% of it is used by the body compared to very low utilisation by the body of synthetic iron-ferrous salts ) . |
| 26 | That house of hers is crammed to the rafters with mothers and sisters-in-law and groupies like your dear Aunt Goldie . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , I 'm not er sure that there are n't still members of both our organizations who believe that right now each of us is supping with the devil . |
| 28 | My respect for you is increasing by the hour . ’ |
| 29 | C. The way in which an everyday object , like a tin of Heinz baked beans , is made and provided for you is shown in the drawings . |
| 30 | Any individual initiative against them is doomed from the start . |