Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EC Evans-Lombe QC , sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge , referred to the ‘ relevant ’ part of s 349(1) : ‘ … the person by or through whom any payment … is made shall , on making the payment , deduct out of it a sum representing the amount of income thereon ’ . |
| 2 | Have your eyelashes dyed at a local beauty salon and then you can simply forget about them all summer . |
| 3 | That need to draw the boundaries of independence applies particularly to parents and adult children , between whom this safety net operates most predictably . |
| 4 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 5 | 1956 : after years of writing about nothing much happening 'cos everything is crap THE BEAST IS BORN … |
| 6 | The game was more enjoyable for everyone that way . |
| 7 | By studying a group of people for whom such lifestyle advice is particularly relevant ( those with non-insulin dependent diabetes ) we intend to develop a better understanding of how such advice is received . |
| 8 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 9 | It would appear that differences between action and control samples are masked by the fact that the action samples contain people who need little or no input from the Home Support Project in order to remain at home , as well as a few for whom that input is crucial . |
| 10 | This is important to those involved with it , for whom that engagement is only part of a continuing career pattern . |
| 11 | By now he conceded that individual rights for Jews , as in the western democracies , would not meet the needs of the Jewish masses in eastern Europe , for whom some form of group ( though not ‘ national ’ ) rights would be essential . |
| 12 | The other unauthorised absentees were a mixture of small numbers of ‘ ghost ’ pupils , wrongly on the register , or pupils in trouble and out of school — but they were largely pupils for whom some authorisation was expected . |
| 13 | Children for whom this activity may have little meaning can compare their own height with towers of blocks , tops of cupboards and so on . |
| 14 | The landlords for whom this service was performed also had the wardship of under age tenants . |
| 15 | Curtis Price ingeniously suggests that the singing actress for whom this song was written might have left the company by 1693 ; but on the omission of the Plaint he does not comment . |
| 16 | This was particularly noticeable among the younger policemen , for whom this imagery seems to be a defining characteristic of their work . |
| 17 | Moving on loitering youths is a policing situation ripe for such amplification , as other research has shown ( Southgate and Ekblom 1986 : 35 , 37 ; Young 1971 ) , and there were several occasions when policemen for whom this imagery is very important over-reacted to the presence of young people on street corners and were aggressive in the way they moved them on . |
| 18 | Those for whom this idea is a novelty may be surprised to learn that it was the writings and political practice of a Marxist , and a communist militant at that , which were largely responsible for the present currency of this view among radical thinkers . |
| 19 | Through pressure and interest groups it could be claimed that the old democratic principle of participation was reinstated , but in a suitably modern form which accepted that it was not individuals but groups for whom this possibility existed . |
| 20 | But proper critical attention will be reserved for the museum 's major treatment of Käthe Kollwitz , for whom this exhibition celebrates the 125th anniversary of her birth . |
| 21 | The character of the Nun 's Priest is a complex of knowledge , attitude and sympathy : knowledge of learning , literature and the ars praedicandi ( " art of preaching " ) , attitudes of detachment from but understanding of the rarefied world of speculative learning , and of sympathy towards the commoner run of humanity for whom this learning is mystifying and in practical terms irrelevant . |
| 22 | It may be the approach of the atheist for whom the whole of life is meaningless ; it may be the approach of the over-spiritualizing theist for whom this world is irrelevant . |
| 23 | As with the other strategies , though , there will be some people for whom this advice is inappropriate : for example if they are unable to avoid feeling guilty , or if the risks involved feel just too great . |
| 24 | The working men for whom this institution was created had a thirst for education in a way we can scarcely any longer imagine today . |
| 25 | She said , ‘ Then tell me , my Lord , how many times you have thought about me this day . ’ |
| 26 | Having to find out about me this way . ’ |
| 27 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 28 | Not surprisingly they take the easy way out when food is put out for them each day . |
| 29 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 30 | A lot of mums , however , still lay out their twenty-year-old 's washed and ironed clothes on the bed for them each morning and continuously clean up after them , catering for their every need . |