Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it finally ratified the Protocol in 1975 the USA further expressed its ‘ understanding ’ that the Protocol does not cover control agents and herbicides , although for itself the USA agreed to limit their use . |
| 2 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 3 | This conflict of interest may undermine our patients ' trust that our decisions on whether or not to treat , investigate , or refer are based solely on their needs rather than on what the fund can afford . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if for her the impossible was not merely possible , not merely probable but certain , she destroyed the route to wonder that might have enhanced her living days . |
| 5 | If for you the disadvantages outweigh the advantages , an open class is one way of showing the work , particularly if you are part of an Evening Institute . |
| 6 | It was female sexuality that constituted the social problem , because through it the race was perpetuated . |
| 7 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 8 | Because of what the news-reader was saying . |
| 9 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 10 | Endill was a little suspicious of Mould , not because of what the Headmaster had said , but because his eyes glowed with a life of their own , as if there was something burning inside his head . |
| 11 | But , the report took three years to publish because of what the unit calls ‘ political discussions ’ . |
| 12 | We have already discussed this in relation to the acute anxiety spiral but it is well worth repeating that avoidance , prior to encountering the full experience of the feared situation , occurs because of what the person believes is going to happen . |
| 13 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 14 | The exaction in this case was accordingly unlawful not because of what the corporation did but because of what the plaintiff did not do . |
| 15 | The exaction in this case was accordingly unlawful not because of what the corporation did but because of what the plaintiff did not do . |
| 16 | Do I want to teach after all ? ’ and this is because of what the others say to you , the more experienced teachers . |
| 17 | Those who may at some stage look at VSEL 's order books may care to consider that , even if the fourth submarine is constructed , the consequences for employment in such constituencies will remain severe because of what the Government have done in relation to naval and submarine construction . |
| 18 | In Bangkok , where he had served as governor , Chamlong was deeply respected because of what the Financial Times of May 8 described as " his uncompromising piety and idealism " . |
| 19 | Because of what the er effect is in the calculations and again we we could go into that in some detail if wanted to . |
| 20 | Oh Sarah is suggesting disapproval because because of what the baby in the photo if you like would be subjected to like a photograph album . |
| 21 | This domination eventually came more because of what the forwards were doing when they had not won possession as when they had . |
| 22 | Any true democracy of the sort that you might have in a university , if you do , is really impossible in schools and that one reason because of what the law says , the other reason of course is the age of the people you 're dealing with . |
| 23 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 24 | Because of you the cause for which the men of the Eighth Air Force paid the elemental price shall live eternally and may we all pray that may our kinship ever be preserved between these two great nations . |
| 25 | It means rather that he ‘ has the value of God for us ’ because in him the love of God towards us is made known . |
| 26 | The Bill is a confession because in it the Government say , ’ We have done wrong by you , consumer . ’ |
| 27 | But we do not believe that the pursuit of national efficiency can be ranked much lower — not least because without it the human rights themselves will not be secure . |
| 28 | Her father saw in a vulgar simulacrum of coloured lights and trilling music a true portrayal of a great maritime tragedy ; whereas for her the reality was best conveyed by a simple , static canvas adorned with pigment . |
| 29 | Whereas for me the rigours of the Second World War meant two ounces of butter a week and five inches of bath-water , for Jean-Claude they had involved near-starvation on a diet of turnips — and the dangers of being on the run . |
| 30 | And since for him the market implied commodity production , and value as a mediating form in social economic relations , the idea of ‘ market socialism ’ would have been anathema . |