Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [noun] " 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 | If this was not so , why would it get funding ; you do n't get something for nothing these days … |
| 3 | Have your eyelashes dyed at a local beauty salon and then you can simply forget about them all summer . |
| 4 | What is it about them that dissatisfies you ? |
| 5 | They had about them enough cameras and guide books to assure us that they were tourists , and the lady 's sunglasses could only have been , in Anna 's words , " products of the New World " . |
| 6 | The picture is incomplete , however , if one thinks solely in terms of undifferentiated ‘ kin ’ , without asking between whom these services flowed . |
| 7 | That need to draw the boundaries of independence applies particularly to parents and adult children , between whom this safety net operates most predictably . |
| 8 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 9 | 1956 : after years of writing about nothing much happening 'cos everything is crap THE BEAST IS BORN … |
| 10 | ‘ For thee these Hands wind up the whirling Jack , |
| 11 | The game was more enjoyable for everyone that way . |
| 12 | Boro 's second team lost the final of the North Yorkshire Trophy 28–14 to Wharfedale , for whom former West Hartlepool and Sale centre Glyn Harrison scored four tries . |
| 13 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 14 | Although an advertisement is not the place in which to list all the snags of the job it should mention fundamental conditions like shift work or weekend working so you do not waste time seeing people for whom such conditions would be unacceptable . |
| 15 | Here it would be tempting to assume , whether modestly or angrily , that there is another group of readers — the sophisticated , the expert , the professional , for whom such problems simply do n't exist , or have long since been left behind . |
| 16 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
| 17 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , George Eliot shared in the Victorian enthusiasm for Dutch interior painting , which dwells in a similar way upon the potency of objects , eliciting from the contemplation of such things the expression of useful lives ( Fig. 81 ) , almost in the manner of medieval Flemish painters for whom such details are invariably symbolic of spiritual states . |
| 19 | While a large proportion of pupils manage to achieve multiple identities and to co-exist in a range of daily cultures , there are some pupils for whom such transitions are problematic , and for whom the inconsistencies in curriculum messages are too great . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For every Cardinal Newman there are hundreds for whom such words might be better described as egotism or pig-headedness . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is important to those involved with it , for whom that engagement is only part of a continuing career pattern . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I have already described above the group of patients for whom these units are intended , and the recommendations regarding location which , as I have already indicated , are drawn from the Timbury Report . |
| 28 | " The implementation of this Specification rests on the goodwill that is needed towards those passengers for whom these features cater " . |
| 29 | Children for whom this activity may have little meaning can compare their own height with towers of blocks , tops of cupboards and so on . |
| 30 | The landlords for whom this service was performed also had the wardship of under age tenants . |