Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A creature , therefore , can be taught nothing for which the inner , instinctive potential is not already present as a latent pattern in mind and muscle . |
| 2 | Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living . |
| 3 | There were no omelette episodes , no Socialist Workers and almost none of what the Prime Minister likes to call ‘ badinage ’ . |
| 4 | The first concerns the structure of the snowball sample itself in which the 60 interviewees were evenly distributed between four ‘ representative ’ townships , 15 from each . |
| 5 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 6 | Sophie had brought them with her the previous night . |
| 7 | Ideally , it is a major feature of this type of product , and one for which the advertised brand is actually superior : but it could be some general characteristic which , by getting in first and appropriating it to itself , the brand can make its own . |
| 8 | So the Christian is a follower of one for whom the Old Testament was the unquestionably authoritative word of God . |
| 9 | I am confident that these issues are something about which the hon. Gentleman knows absolutely nothing . |
| 10 | Not before time , the reader may think , we can find out something of what the central figures in this dispute thought about it . |
| 11 | It is quite sufficient to find something of which the individual concerned is proud — however small and seemingly insignificant that something may appear to be . |
| 12 | We have already looked at some aspects of what makes each one of us the distinctive , uniquely individual people that we are . |
| 13 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
| 14 | Sex is something with which the vast majority of any audience will be intimately familiar in one form or another , and this places the performances of the actors under unusually close scrutiny . |
| 15 | Given that ‘ ideas ’ are things which , like sensations and feelings , are essentially mind-dependent , the third premiss is something with which the philosophically sophisticated would agree ; it is , too , something with which the vulgar , if persuaded to consider the matter , could easily be brought to agree . |
| 16 | Informal spoken discourse is something in which the modern foreign language learner , with opportunities for travel and social contact , is most likely to wish to succeed , but also the discourse type he or she is likely to find hardest , precisely because it is so informal and unpredictable . |
| 17 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 18 | Yeah actually that 's that 's a good point because I 'm , I had something from you the other day your erm , you know the magazine that you sent |
| 19 | Of all the members of the party he was the one from whom the most endurance was called , but of all the members of the party he was perhaps the only one unused to sustained walking or manual labour , and he was also the smallest . |
| 20 | The answer was ‘ no ’ , roughly speaking , unless one knew not only the machine code but , most importantly , what the highest level language in question was , and the one from which the binary code had been obtained when the program ran . |
| 21 | Does he agree that in choosing the alternative route the Secretary of State for Transport was second guessing and ignoring the possibility that an environmental assessment would conclude that the general route that he has selected was as inappropriate as the one from which the hon. Gentleman thinks his constituents would suffer ? |
| 22 | The calls , which were in an exceptionally rough and harsh voice , came from an eagle in the cage beyond the one from which the old female had spoken in the night . |
| 23 | However , if the above criticism of the partial equilibrium model is put to one side , the implication of Roll 's work is that the only valid test is one in which the various market indices , which are used as proxies for the market portfolio , are examined to see if they are mean variance efficient . |
| 24 | Stock buffo characters Marcellina and Bartolo ( Ann Howard and David Gwynne ) added lightness and comedy to what could be described as a serious interpretation of The Marriage of Figaro , not as effervescent as some would have liked but thoroughly convincing just the same — and one in which the complex ensemble were particularly memorable . |
| 25 | Here the system is one in which the front-line units support each other . |
| 26 | A suspended second ( or ‘ sus 2 ’ ) chord is one in which the major or minor 3rd is replaced by the second to create a more unfinished , open , suspended feel . |
| 27 | It is one in which the traditional distinction between politics and administration is most easily made . |
| 28 | For at least some Western observers Soviet action was not simply a violation of international agreements but an attempt to establish a greater degree of influence in the Persian Gulf , an area of enormous significance for Western oil supplies and one in which the Western position had already been weakened by the overthrow of the Shah of Iran . |
| 29 | A progressive tax structure is one in which the average tax rate rises with an individual 's income level . |
| 30 | A regressive tax structure is one in which the average tax rate falls as income level rises . |