Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A willingness to stand up and promote his trade with gusto typifies Mr Smythe 's approach to his job as chairman his Association . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress he has made in making available a pool of British-registered merchant ships for emergency defence use . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made by his Department to prevent bullying in the services ; and how much money has been spent in dealing with this matter since June 1988 . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress he is making towards restoring a flying role for squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information he has on the number of jobs in the north-west region of England which are related to defence requirements . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what offer of assistance he has given to the member states of the former Soviet Union to assist in establishing defence hot-lines . |
| 7 | However , if the PRO is arranging feature coverage or if it is known that they will be available for photography their PR lives will be extended . |
| 8 | Ford is also now rating its suppliers on other things , for instance their R&D ability . |
| 9 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 10 | Aspectual differences have to do with the temporal distribution of an event , for instance its completion or non-completion , continuation , or momentariness . |
| 11 | Take for instance our approach to transport . |
| 12 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 13 | These Directives could have a profound effect upon the value for money which insurance companies and pension providers can offer their customers , throughout Europe , in the years ahead . |
| 14 | DM stressed the need for future-proofing whatever network development work is to be carried out . |
| 15 | For Liesl whose mother had been able to escape to this country , a battle royal developed between her parent and her foster parent . |
| 16 | The user may then request details of the tuple for employee whose employee number is 756 . |
| 17 | The young men entered into the wedding , therefore , desperate for enjoyment , for fear they sicken of each other 's company before spring . |
| 18 | Kathleen turned away from the window , hastily , for fear her sister should see her watching and began to get out the mixing bowl and pastry board , the flour and the milk . |
| 19 | Although puzzled , he hesitated to investigate more closely for fear his driver should imagine his interest to be prurient . |
| 20 | One o'clock — after lunch my mother shows me how to make a cake so that I can have it for tea . |
| 21 | After supper my father went to see the doctor and they went for a walk together to kill time up until the appointed hour . |
| 22 | Soon after birth your baby 's eyes are checked by a paediatrician . |
| 23 | The chairman of the Northern Ireland Association of British Travel Agents , Ailbe McMurray , defended the record of local firms after Holiday Which magazine attacked some British agents ' performance . |
| 24 | The chairman of the Northern Ireland Association of British Travel Agents , Ailbe McMurray , defended the record of local firms after Holiday Which magazine attacked some British agents ' performance . |
| 25 | After school my father used to accompany him on his rounds in the car , and during these journeys they had ample time to exchange ideas without being overheard . |
| 26 | Suppose , on the other hand , that he is guided by law as integrity , which does not limit law to what convention finds in past decisions but directs him also to regard as law what morality would suggest to be the best justification of these past decisions . |
| 27 | On the other hand , he has a great deal of confidence in Noorda 's intellectual prowess and innate capitalism to deliver for Sun what Sun needs from USL as USL 's ‘ largest customer ’ : low royalties , available source , open interfaces , technological innovation and resolution of any channel conflict with SunSoft . |
| 28 | They were not ones for put-ring their hand to the plough then looking back . |
| 29 | It also controls gradual water loss , retaining just the right amount of moisture your skin needs . |
| 30 | And if modernism is the result of a stage of differentiation whose onset is proper to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , then modernity is the product of a much earlier stage of this differentiation process . |