Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controlling for them tests the original relationship between X and Y , and checks that it holds up . |
| 2 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 3 | The thrust of their work points away from the particularities of individuality to engage in different ways with the significance of the Incarnation which for them provides the ultimate pattern of meaning for all men . |
| 4 | Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom . |
| 5 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 6 | And through his britches the blue winds blow . |
| 7 | When young children have to be looked after it reduces the opportunities that parents have to take part in the social round . |
| 8 | The man opposite me yanks the communication cord , and we lurch to a halt . |
| 9 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 10 | and they all , one week one of them does the |
| 11 | When two crabs meet in a rock pool , one of them grasps the other and ‘ raps ’ vigorously and noisily at the other 's shell . |
| 12 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 13 | One of them takes the form of an almost completely restored mining village , complete with a stream-driven miners ' cage , ironworks , a bakery selling delicious break baked on the spot , as well as other ships and an ‘ antique ’ house suitably equipped — i.e. with a black-leaded range and |
| 14 | ‘ One of them plays the piano most beautifully . |
| 15 | One of them extends the Fourth Directive to both partnerships ( whether limited or unlimited ) and unlimited companies , in either case where the partners or shareholders themselves have limited liability . |
| 16 | Once long ago , Otto Werner 's father had danced with Esther Breuer 's mother , on New Year 's Eve , in Vienna , in 1925 : but neither of them remembers the incident , and therefore , perhaps , it does not exist ? |
| 17 | One of them concerns the possibility of a distinction between numerical and species identity , i.e. the problem of individuation of ontological particulars . |
| 18 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |
| 19 | And behind all of them lies the archetypal opposition between good and evil , light and darkness , creation and destruction , God and the Devil . |
| 20 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 21 | Each of them has the power to decide immediately to stop purchasing tuna caught by fishing on dolphins . |
| 22 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 23 | But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other . |
| 24 | You feel quite confident in interviewing both of them , but as it turns out only one of them has the imagination to emphasise with your ideas and within three weeks he is in situ . |
| 25 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 26 | The odds are that at least one of them carries the virus . |
| 27 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 28 | Twiddling any one of them makes the colour worse ; but if all three , or perhaps just two , were adjusted simultaneously then the colour of the picture would improve . |
| 29 | The figures do afford some comparability between years , and even a brief examination of them shows the great shift from wool to cloth as England 's main export commodity . |
| 30 | Good looking women gather in such large numbers that the mere sight of them appeases the appetite , although [ of course ] for the lecherous this does not suffice . |