Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | A precursor of this line of reasoning is Max Weber , for whom the shared ideal and material interests of groups are primary analytical components . |
| 62 | One consists of those for whom the expansionary repercussions on domestic liquidity of balance of payments surpluses , resulting from dollar inflows , did not exceed the degree of stimulus felt desirable . |
| 63 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 64 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 65 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 66 | The Elves , who will never leave the material universe and do not know what happens to Men when they die , are embodiments of language-users for whom the breath-wind-spirit distinction would be meaningless . |
| 67 | Many parents , for whom the basic school fees already represent a considerable personal investment in the future , would welcome this contribution . |
| 68 | Those for whom the whole self is at stake , he wrote . |
| 69 | Among experienced readers , including those most passionately concerned with modernism , there are some for whom Joyce occupies nothing like so central a position , some for whom the whole drift of the later work is radically misconceived , even a colossal mistake . |
| 70 | The name of the user for whom the special link is to be granted or cancelled . |
| 71 | Infinitely too sensitive to be shared , even in the most vague terms , with the general public , for whom the nuclear shield remains the ultimate defence . |
| 72 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 73 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 74 | Housman pays strict attention to these prosodic and structural emphases , conveying through them the Horatian sense of addressing the imagined bystander . |
| 75 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 76 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 77 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 78 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 79 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 80 | For them the Imperial Sun shines on undiminished ! |
| 81 | For them the critical starting date in human history was the one in 1896 when British law was changed to allow motor-cars to be driven without a man preceding them on foot carrying a red flag . |
| 82 | For them the skilful use of mass media may be important , and key contacts in positions of power will be a great help . |
| 83 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 84 | Five year students , they gave a party for them the other evening about fifty of them must have turned up . |
| 85 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
| 86 | For them the Social Charter and its accompanying action programme offer the way forward . |
| 87 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 88 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 89 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 90 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |