Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus is the prophet ( Luke 7 : 16 A t 3:22 , 7:37 ) the long-awaited prophet of the end-time , Through whom the prophetic Spirit so active in the Old Testament , gave full and final revelation . |
| 2 | Jesus is the prism through whom the diffused and fitful light of the Spirit is concentrated . |
| 3 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
| 4 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 5 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 6 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 7 | Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) . |
| 8 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 9 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 10 | For just a moment before the Elbow , it seemed possible that Llewellyn and Party Politics might join the sad company of might-have-beens , for whom the 494 yards of the Aintree run-in have turned dreams into nightmares . |
| 11 | It probably only includes counterparties and not a client for whom the firm acts in a transaction with another firm ( eg , an IMRO member who is a client of an SFA broker ) . |
| 12 | The SFA listed categories test includes advisory clients and clients for whom the firm acts , in addition to counterparties ; it excludes many more clients or counterparties from being customers than does the SIB transactional test and is thus very helpful . |
| 13 | The Good Book has taught us their image , they must be outcasts with the mark of Cain upon them , Ishmaels for whom the savage wilderness is home till they come to know the wisdom of the Lord . |
| 14 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 15 | However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups . |
| 16 | One might speculate that an impending solution to the Northern Ireland problem would split off from the clerical leadership those groups for whom the present position is only accepted on pragmatic grounds . |
| 17 | Not far behind this overall vision of justice came his anxious consideration that the particular saints of each church , for whom the present community was only the trustee , would demand from their trustees a full account of their stewardship down to the most minute particulars . |
| 18 | The second group may be further divided into two segments : those for whom the present unemployment is a single episode and those who are intermittently unemployed . |
| 19 | This notice does not apply to members who have joined since Christmas for whom the current membership lasts until March 1991 . |
| 20 | Most notably these have included , first , a concern with income distribution and the need to combat ‘ absolute ’ poverty , triggered by McNamara in 1973 ; and second , the need to finance the trade deficits , and consequent ‘ adjustment ’ , of the many African countries for whom the second oil price rise of 1979 was a near fatal blow . |
| 21 | A service development programme is needed to provide non-standard services to groups for whom the traditional model of primary care , based on serving a family of fixed abode , is inappropriate . |
| 22 | It is more likely that she was a schizophrenic , for whom the religious beliefs of her day provided a means of escape from the daily life with which her inadequate personality could not cope . |
| 23 | These latter results exclude data from 34 patients with index ulcers less than 5 mm in diameter who had cumulative two , four , and eight week healing rates of 41.2% , 73.5% , and 97.1% respectively and 54 patients suffering from their first ulcer for whom the equivalent healing rates were 50% , 74.1% , and 94.4% . |
| 24 | Most fellows would have dined in college on most nights , whether they were married or not ; and the huge majority were still bachelors for whom the celibate life was the norm . |
| 25 | The position is now much more complex for individual employees , for whom the best choice may be one of several options . |
| 26 | But the conclusion to be drawn from this may be less acceptable to those for whom the democratic and pluralist nature of local government is one of its key defining characteristics , since local government ( both elected and unelected ) seems increasingly to be drawn into ‘ corporatism at local level ’ . |
| 27 | There are groups in hospitals and prisons for whom the regular CAB is inaccessible at any time . |
| 28 | In the end , even gentle Jane Taylor , author of ‘ Twinkle , twinkle little star … ’ was not exempted from the criticism of those for whom the sharp outlines of heaven and hell had become blurred , and who regarded Evangelicals and Nonconformists as purveyors of needless gloom . |
| 29 | The potential gain if one was ‘ exceptional ’ , however , and qualified for an early release is so powerful that few men are prepared to forego it The result is a shabby , futile process that Probation Officers feel makes subsequent work with inmates more difficult , that exasperates prison officers who see the time and energy in compiling reports as wasted , and infuriates prisoners for whom the probable refusal of parole , with its tiny element of uncertainty , makes prison life even harder to bear . |
| 30 | Pat Bavester was another person for whom the low fat diet worked where others had failed . |