Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Jesus is the prophet ( Luke 7 : 16 A t 3:22 , 7:37 ) the long-awaited prophet of the end-time , Through whom the prophetic Spirit so active in the Old Testament , gave full and final revelation . |
2 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
3 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
4 | Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) . |
5 | Patients who feel vaguely unwell but for whom no specific diagnosis can be made and who therefore are difficult or impossible to patch or repair tend to be regarded either as malingerers or psychosomatic problems — with the term psychosomatic being equated with unreal or imaginary . |
6 | Their skinhead followers are horrid but , in the French elections , the majority of 18-24 year olds voted Green , and Le Pen 's support came from an older and jobless proletariat — the 10 per cent of Europe 's have-nothings for whom no mainstream party offers more than kind words and strict membership of the European Monetary System . |
7 | Priority is being given to children with physical disabilities for whom no other respite care service exists in the borough . |
8 | However , even after excluding these infective causes and any anatomical reasons ( it has been suggested , for instance , that a ‘ pouting ’ urethral meatus in women can give rise to recurrent urethral symptoms , and a urethral caruncle , a tiny button of sensitive flesh at the urethral opening , can certainly cause a similar discomfort ) , there remain a few women for whom no predisposing factor can be elicited . |
9 | This term is used to indicate the non-arrival of a guest , and for whom no formal cancellation has been received . |
10 | Without the incentive to employ workers for whom no national insurance contributions are payable , employers may more rationally decide on whether new job opportunities warrant full- or part-time status . |
11 | The " yes " vote was recorded as 77.3 per cent of the 10,948,468 votes cast ( a turnout of about two-thirds of all eligible voters ) , but with a large majority voting " no " in the Transylvanian counties of Harghita and Covasna , the main centres of ethnic Hungarian population , for whom no special minority or language rights were guaranteed . |
12 | For housewives trying to do their best for their families , for whom every mid-Victorian penny counted , of course the dividend was what mattered . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The MEC discusses only those students for whom a changed recommendation has been made . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Unlike many carnivores , for whom a single meal a day is often sufficient , herbivores have to spend much of their time eating . |
18 | ‘ That 's the crucial difference in keeping the flavour , ’ says Jermey , for whom an important concern has been authenticity . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
21 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
22 | It probably only includes counterparties and not a client for whom the firm acts in a transaction with another firm ( eg , an IMRO member who is a client of an SFA broker ) . |
23 | The SFA listed categories test includes advisory clients and clients for whom the firm acts , in addition to counterparties ; it excludes many more clients or counterparties from being customers than does the SIB transactional test and is thus very helpful . |
24 | The Good Book has taught us their image , they must be outcasts with the mark of Cain upon them , Ishmaels for whom the savage wilderness is home till they come to know the wisdom of the Lord . |
25 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
26 | However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups . |
27 | One might speculate that an impending solution to the Northern Ireland problem would split off from the clerical leadership those groups for whom the present position is only accepted on pragmatic grounds . |
28 | The second group may be further divided into two segments : those for whom the present unemployment is a single episode and those who are intermittently unemployed . |
29 | Not far behind this overall vision of justice came his anxious consideration that the particular saints of each church , for whom the present community was only the trustee , would demand from their trustees a full account of their stewardship down to the most minute particulars . |
30 | This notice does not apply to members who have joined since Christmas for whom the current membership lasts until March 1991 . |