Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 2 | Danger , from the Piaroa point of view , is from the predatory activities of beings from other worlds , and the responsibility for protection from them is in the hands of the shamanic ruwatu . |
| 3 | Such pedagogies appear to meet the crude , externally visible criteria for professional success , and the lack of collegial reflection or criticism provides no impetus for change in them either . |
| 4 | They have worked for change within it by , for example , the formation of feminist groups of health workers and professionals , campaigns for more woman-centred services , promoting equal opportunity policies for employees and campaigns to protect abortion rights . |
| 5 | Women are more likely than men both not to be members of such schemes and to work for employers without them . |
| 6 | Individual questions about behavioural development have however been answered , and we can look for patterns in them . |
| 7 | My mother had a Chinese education , returning to China for part of it . |
| 8 | DEW intends to oppose the cross town route even though planning approval has already been granted for part of it . |
| 9 | THE PRINCESS of Wales last night spoke out for the first time about the ‘ untrue and hurtful ’ allegations about friction between her , and the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Not for want of me trying . |
| 11 | ‘ I seem to expect the whole happiness and sweetness to come from you ’ , he wrote as he warned Helen that she should find a real need for patience with him . |
| 12 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 13 | Wanderers chairman Geoff Wyatt issued the following statement : ‘ By amicable agreement the three coaches have parted company with the club and we wish to thank them for their committment and efforts during their time as coaches with us . ’ |
| 14 | Charlie never talked about money to me . |
| 15 | ‘ My dear girl , you 'd have thought him very ill-bred if he 'd talked about money to you , and even if he had , you would n't have understood the relevance of what he was saying , any more than he understands how well off we are . |
| 16 | As you can imagine , I talked knitting for hours with her and the other knitters who were kind enough to look after me . |
| 17 | And they 'll sit and they 'll play for hours with them ! |
| 18 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 19 | Papers like the NME and the Guardian ca n't ignore these masculine genres , but find it hard to understand or reinterpret them : instead they 've devised several strategies for skirting round them . |
| 20 | But if God had meant such shrines and grottoes to be the proof for faith in Him , surely He would have taken away our brains . |
| 21 | For example , Paul concludes his description of his calling as an evangelist with a great insight about the gospel : ‘ In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence . ’ |
| 22 | Knock off part of them , they 're set apart are n't they ? |
| 23 | What about think of it . |
| 24 | But what about attitudes to you as a woman ? |
| 25 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 27 | The prosecution was allowed to sum up its evidence in secret hearing as part of it had been given in camera . |
| 28 | In the Cox Report we therefore set out our rationale for explicit knowledge about language in a separate section , and printed as part of it the statements of attainment about knowledge about language from the three profile components , bringing them together in order to show their coherence . |
| 29 | In the ignominious collapse of the grand scheme the two separated , each to accommodate itself to the developing capitalist system , each to find its own way forward within the system and as part of it . |
| 30 | Each teacher tends to have his own particular strategy and will wish to employ the computer program as part of it . |