Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I talked to them during rehearsals in 1985 . |
| 2 | Costs of this magnitude and doubts about the ability to recoup them through improvements in efficiency or other gains are likely to be a significant disincentive to attempting a take-over and their scale suggests that they constitute a barrier behind which sub-optimally performing boards can find a substantial measure of protection . |
| 3 | So I would n't necessarily talk to them about conditions in the flats . |
| 4 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 5 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 6 | More important , as armies became more highly organized , more permanent and more self-conscious , the temptation to use them as moulds in which civilian societies might be recast became stronger , at least in the relatively poor and backward States of Eastern and Northern Europe . |
| 7 | Many librarians , especially in Hertfordshire , remedied their lack by attending Garnett College for a one-year course preparing them as teachers in further education . |
| 8 | Shortly after leaving Aix he published them as Exercises in the Form of Paradoxes against the Aristotelians ( 1624 ) . |
| 9 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 10 | They calculated these standardized mortality rates for each cause of death , and then used them as weights in the allocation formula : areas with higher death rates from a particular disease got more money to treat that disease . |
| 11 | Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world . |
| 12 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 13 | I say ‘ modified ’ because you have to use them as attacks in themselves . |
| 14 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 15 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 16 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
| 17 | The geologists took the nodules back to the laboratory and soaked them for months in acetic acid . |
| 18 | Mrs Sargent was kind ; she took them for drives in the car . |
| 19 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |
| 20 | He talked with them in his study or took them for walks in the park . |
| 21 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 22 | Course content has been selected to give graduates the necessary knowledge , skills and experience to equip them for careers in software development , application systems development , and in using computer systems to further organizational goals . |
| 23 | That does n't make her schizophrenic , of course , but it 's the little things , her paranoia , her unkempt appearance … and yesterday she was whispering to me about microphones in the lecture room . |
| 24 | Little specific attention was paid to older people in the White Paper , Working for Patients , nor to the effect on them of changes in the GP contract , but the implications of the changes for the care of older patients may be significant . |
| 25 | Nor is there any power for them either to require details from people in order to keep a register or to require people to continue to notify them of changes in any register . |
| 26 | Either way , the westward move of Odo and Robert and the distribution to them of lands in the Rheims area , can be linked with Charles 's marriage to Ermentrude . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal stated that the Board did have a duty to act fairly which entailed granting B and K the opportunity to satisfy them of matters in the statute , and to let B and K know the impressions of the Board so that they might be dispelled ; but the Board did not have to quote ‘ chapter and verse , ’ nor did it have to disclose the source of its information if it would be contrary to the public interest , nor did the reasons for the refusal have to be given . |
| 28 | More violent crimes than that performed by the jealous woman did not occur among the Chewong while I was with them , nor could anyone tell me of others in the past . |
| 29 | It reminds me of days in the Wolf Cubs when we sat around Akela and heard about Mowgli . |
| 30 | The jukebox is playing ‘ Ricky Do n't Lose that Number ’ , and it reminds me of carpools in the seventh grade . |