Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 2 | This was in constant use for emaciated patients who were just skin and bones and for whom a normal bed provided no comfort at all . |
| 3 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 4 | The MEC discusses only those students for whom a changed recommendation has been made . |
| 5 | Those observations were applicable to the present case : the appellant was at the present time a dangerous young man for whom a determinate sentence was not appropriate . |
| 6 | Unlike many carnivores , for whom a single meal a day is often sufficient , herbivores have to spend much of their time eating . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the crucial difference in keeping the flavour , ’ says Jermey , for whom an important concern has been authenticity . |
| 8 | Before him sat Queen Elizabeth II , the Queen Mother and every member of the British Royal family ; and most of the crowned heads of Europe , innumerable monarchs from Africa , the Middle East and Asia , including the 25-stone King of Tonga , for whom an extra-large chair had been specially made . |
| 9 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 10 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 11 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 12 | For them a central reason for concentrating on civil society lies in the social and emotional significance of the home . |
| 13 | For them a systematic process is more plausible and most human resource departments in firms have systematized procedures ( application forms , interview schedules , psychological tests ) to extract theme data at the time a person joins the firm . |
| 14 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 15 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 16 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
| 17 | Of course , this makes fishing for them a challenging business and it is one that absorbs a great many specialist anglers . |
| 18 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 19 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 20 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 21 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 22 | Most of them were refugees from East Africa living in substandard conditions and paying exorbitant rents ; for them a second income was desperately needed , and going on strike seemed a dangerous business . |
| 23 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 24 | Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone . |
| 25 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 26 | Lloyd has ‘ discovered ’ for them a magnificent location in the shape of the old ‘ boat-houses ’ along the Embankment . |
| 27 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 28 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 29 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 30 | The background of one was recognizably Santa de Nogueira , and she was locked in struggle with an ordinary-looking man about whom a dark cloud was gathering . |