Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of what we in our omniscience now know of Falkenhayn 's intentions , and of the hideous tragedy that was to ensue at Verdun , we may say that France should not have decided to hold the city at all costs . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't envisage any circumstances in which we as church leaders would talk . ’ |
| 3 | Sorry ; etcetera ) as well as the slightly perverse habit of calling all young girls ‘ madam ’ and all old women ‘ girls , ’ it was a charm to which I at least was quite prophylactically immune . |
| 4 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 5 | Like any prudent business the UK bank will wish to keep a record of what it in turn has on deposit in its account with the US bank . |
| 6 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 7 | This is the point at which I as a mathematical physicist begin to splutter and go red in the face . |
| 8 | Harclay 's motives were entirely understandable , but his action was technically treasonable for he was ‘ a private person to whom it in no wise pertained to ordain such things ’ . |
| 9 | Others complain he provides a moronic stereotype of black people for which they in turn must suffer . |
| 10 | could , could you tell us about the ways in which you as a child used to try and get some money for yourself and the family ? |
| 11 | ( 1 ) that as between two competing holders of equitable interests , if their equities are equal the first in time prevails and ( 2 ) that a bona fide purchaser for value of a legal interest takes free of earlier equitable interests of which he as no notice at the time of purchase . |
| 12 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
| 13 | least periods of months and hopefully , well rather more than that , they would work things out in a way in which they in fact helped each other very considerably . |
| 14 | Has any is there way in which you from your observation there , you the erm there 's been a in in the relationship between the men and the and the women involved involved as a consequence of er this kind of activity ? |
| 15 | That is the price the Chancellor and the Prime Minister think is worth paying — the price of decline and despair for families , the price of the dissolution of industries upon which we in this country depend for our future . |
| 16 | She had even bought him a hunting dog as a present , a sleek , golden , sweet-tempered animal from which he at once became inseparable . |
| 17 | The wide variety of scenarios should , we argue throughout this book , be treated as a series of options over which we as a society ought to be able to exercise some choice . |
| 18 | That finding effectively determines the agreed figures on which damages relating to the provision of suitable accommodation in turn , it is agreed that if two carers are to live in the household , that suitable new accommodation for the plaintiff can be acquired for two hundred and seventeen thousand , five hundred pounds , the house in which he at present lives will fe fetch eighty two thousand , five hundred pounds , a difference of a hundred and thirty five thousand pounds . |
| 19 | Young children will often , for instance , feel a sense of responsibility for adverse events in which they in fact had no role at all , and hence experience a good deal of anxiety . |