Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For where your treasure is , there will your heart be also . |
| 2 | She had her own weekends , here in London , staying with Veronica , whose flat she was now looking after while its owner worked a year 's exchange course at UCLA . |
| 3 | Mrs Sherwood relates the death of a boy of six , whom she and her husband had been asked to look after whilst his parents were in India : |
| 4 | Though perhaps not quite so avidly sought after as its Pirelli or even Ilford counterpart , these nonetheless prove to be extremely popular with local folk who send them to their far-flung nearest and dearest . |
| 5 | Since the good faith and honesty of the protesters were admitted by all concerned , this seemed to bring them within the statutory defence regardless of whether their beliefs were reasonable or whether they were universally held . |
| 6 | Senior house officers could also be assessed in terms of whether their performance in post is satisfactory . |
| 7 | The red menace is gone and Italians must face the question of whether their country can hold together ; whether it can be governed efficiently and whether a new administration will have the courage to beat public debt , the Mafia and corruption . |
| 8 | Given the confusing and contradictory messages that women may be getting on their social role , it is worth exploring the question of whether their experiences of higher education are similarly confusing and contradictory . |
| 9 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 10 | Parents may be faced with the question of whether their child will be considered to be ‘ special ’ in an ordinary school , or ‘ ordinary ’ in a special school . |
| 11 | This may well have been the intention , but in fact the implications are clear : demolition rates are too low , compulsory purchase of homes for redevelopment is inevitable in the future ; owner-occupiers can not be trusted to be the final arbiters of whether their homes arc unfit' ; and some existing environments may be so drab as to be not worth preserving' . |
| 12 | Coun. Mrs Heather Scott ( C ) said it was unfair to impose a flat rise on tenants regardless of whether their homes had been repaired . |
| 13 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 14 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 15 | Now I I 'm we 're not here to argue whether that 's a good thing or a bad thing , erm but nonetheless parents were , if you like , an attempt was being made to con them into voting on that particular issue under the guise of whether their children 's education would be better or worse , and I think many parents realized that . |
| 16 | AIthough there are common concerns shared by the two theories , and indeed attempts to draw on both of them , there are also differences in terms of , for instance , the way in which they characterize society , or the part of it they are dealing with , the degree to which they focus on production and technology , whether their focus is on sectors or wider processes , and in relation to evidence ( both in terms of whether their balance is towards description or explanation and in terms of their interpretation of evidence ) . |
| 17 | Indeed , in the aftermath of the Scarman Report 's publication , police opinion was divided on the question of whether its proposals for reforming the police and the adoption of new methods of policing could be implemented , or whether such changes could insure against further violence and unrest . |
| 18 | The Exchange spotted that Barlow Clowes ' accounts were silent on the question of whether its investors ' funds were sufficient to cover what savers were entitled to . |
| 19 | Bull said it still continues to be part of ACE Consortium , but only as far as desktop Intel-based systems are concerned : it refused to be drawn over the question of whether its relationship with IBM would result in it favouring OS/2 over Windows 3 , saying only that ‘ Windows is what our customers are buying today ’ . |
| 20 | The experience itself was real enough , and I can retrospectively describe it and analyse it , irrespective of whether its object was real or fictional . |
| 21 | There is no record of whether his request was granted . |
| 22 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 23 | And that 's where you start to get your problems irrespective of whether your appliances are correctly fused you must make sure they are correctly fused but you must not exceed the thirteen amp otherwise you 've had it . |
| 24 | Regardless of whether your LIFESPAN is going to run across nodes , you will have to ensure DECNET is configured for the maximum number of links required . |
| 25 | Would it be sort of before your dad went ? |
| 26 | The legitimate purpose of a combination is sometimes spoken of as its justification ( and the expression is convenient ) but this does not mean that a combination to do an act harmful to the plaintiff is necessarily actionable unless the defendants prove that it was justified . |
| 27 | The person I like to think of as my friend |
| 28 | Er , mine died when I was nine and my mother has been my mother and a father to both myself my brother and sister and I feel she 's done just as good a job as I could of as my father could have done . |
| 29 | Mireille eventually met Rob Andrew , the Lions captain , and he too ended up with a bouquet , which he was still wondering how to dispose of as his players began to line up . |
| 30 | How about if your clothes and fall flat on your face ! |