Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like mantises that eat their mates , or are eaten by them during intimate congress — even knowing that such a fate must occur — they were fraternally drawn to one another , obeying a bizarre tropism . |
| 2 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 3 | She was involved in some of the student protests against them during that period ; but at the end of the day she still felt that an English education was a necessary tool for survival for her children . |
| 4 | What we ha If we do n't support them during that period , how on earth do we get them to be two years old ? |
| 5 | It came to him as a Revelation , descending upon his mind in all its complex glory , that there was a man in the City in need of his help , and that the man — his name did n't matter-would free everyone as this awakening had freed him . |
| 6 | Caving , of course , does nothing for pristine clothing , but the bedraggled and apparent roughnecks seen in the streets of Ingleton after a hard day can afford to ignore the caustic comments of observers : they know a wonderful world their critics will never see . |
| 7 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 8 | After 1911 , women whose husbands were in insured employment received a maternity benefit of 30/ rising to £2 after World War I , which was completely absorbed by the cost of an attendant , leaving nothing for extra food and necessities for the mother and baby . |
| 9 | " I can do nothing for that boy . " |
| 10 | Julia felt nothing for that child , she did n't like her , she did n't hate her , I mean she , she did n't she just felt nothing cos that 's precisely what she told me , that 's her words , not mine , you know and I find then , that , she should n't be a childminder |
| 11 | Unless we care nothing for human freedom and are impervious to human suffering , denunciation seems an implausible general justification for a system which deliberately inflicts punishment on people . |
| 12 | We have a single-minded policy for British industrial success , but the Opposition have a feeble-minded policy which would achieve nothing for British industry . |
| 13 | Shareholders , who received a total dividend payout for 1991 of 3.75p per share , will receive nothing for last year . |
| 14 | In despair , I did nothing for another week . |
| 15 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 16 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 17 | The words of the Principal , , to the graduates of 1992 , and the fundamental reasoning behind the launch two years ago of the University 's Environmental Initiative to imbue staff and students with an awareness of environmental problems and the resolve to confront them through integrated teaching , research and institutional behaviour . |
| 18 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
| 19 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 20 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 21 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 22 | The newspaper group plans to shed 33 jobs , about 25 of them through compulsory redundancy , leaving it with 400 staff to service the Daily and Sunday Telegraph . |
| 23 | and push them through that loop , it looks |
| 24 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 25 | The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction . |
| 26 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |
| 27 | They take some of Britain 's toughest and most notorious criminals and put them through intense therapy ; forcing them to confront what they did and why . |
| 28 | It was a delight to travel on them through exciting scenery that would otherwise have been out of reach . |
| 29 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 30 | Progressives , and radicals supporting reorganization of the schools and the introduction of non-streaming , are carrying their attack upon the grammar schools ' élitism into the curriculum , dismantling the traditional subjects by rearranging them through interdisciplinary work , projects and themes . |