Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gael has rejected God as a guarantor of reality , but he is being used , despite himself , as an oracular figure through whom the knowledge of other characters may be conveyed . |
| 2 | The broker ( through whom the approach would normally be made ) must be kept informed at each stage of the process . |
| 3 | The Old Testament kings had been warriors and conquerors , smiting their enemies , but they had also been vehicles through whom the law of God was interpreted and enforced . |
| 4 | If you like , Jesus is the funnel through whom the Spirit becomes available to men . |
| 5 | Mention should also be made of the French theologian Auguste Sabatier ( 1839–1901 ) , through whom the movement also made some impact on the French Roman Catholic Modernists , notably A. F. Loisy ( 1857–1940 ) . |
| 6 | Of course , you will have to have a detective through whom the reader will watch this gradual revelation . |
| 7 | New incentives are needed , says Czechborn Mrs Debbie Welch , a lecturer at Longlands College in Middlesbrough , through whom the visit has been arranged . |
| 8 | If you have sold all of your ordinary shares in Dawson International PLC , you should pass this document and the enclosed form of proxy to the purchaser , or to the agent through whom the sale was effected for transmission to the purchaser . |
| 9 | If you wish to cancel your booking this must be done in writing from the person in whose name the booking is invoiced to the travel agent through whom the booking was made or to the Invoicing Dept , Redwing Holidays Limited , Groundstar House , London Road , Crawley , West Sussex , RH10 2TB , and sent by Recorded Delivery if you have booked with us direct . |
| 10 | Your booking is taken to be confirmed and accepted in respect of all persons travelling when we despatch our Confirmation and Account to the person signing the booking form or to the Travel Agent through whom the booking was made . |
| 11 | A cancellation can only be accepted in writing from the person who signed the booking form or in writing from the Travel Agent through whom the booking was made . |
| 12 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 13 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 14 | to provide meetings which have about them a sense of mental , spiritual and emotional homecoming to them . |
| 15 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 16 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 17 | And , road accidents , we talk about them a lot , and we 've discussed about charging for them , or whether we should n't and all the rest of it , they are n't about bits of squashed metal , they 're about people . |
| 18 | We always had books and newspapers in the house , and I talked to the children about them every day . |
| 19 | At least Linfield are still above us in the championship race so you can keep on writing about them every day . |
| 20 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 21 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 22 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 23 | About them the world seemed to stand still , the silence broken only by the gentle rustling of the leaves in the branches above their heads . |
| 24 | On the other hand , there are those on both sides whom I would label ‘ meaning ’ theists and ‘ meaning ’ atheists , between whom a dialogue about God 's existence can take place . |
| 25 | I 'm discreetly handcuffed to Detective Sergeant Flavell — McDunn has the key — and we have a couple of burly plain-clothes men with us I strongly suspect are tooled up , but the pressure seems to be off me a bit . |
| 26 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 27 | Especially when his teacher explained that Jesus was born again for everyone every Christmas and Bethlehem was never far away . |
| 28 | There has been a recognition of the constraints within which the Trust can plan its long-term management and for everyone a jolting out of the cosy belief that man is master . |
| 29 | Calvinists , for whom no event could be fortuitous , were especially prone to make judgments that divine providence was supposed to bring to fruition before their eyes . |
| 30 | The huge majority of humanity are earthy clods for whom no hope may be entertained . |