Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that Iran badly needed TOW anti-tank missiles and in return for them would get the American hostages being held in Beirut released . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if archaeological finds are sandwiched between two volcanic rock layers , then the dates for them will bracket the date of the archaeology . |
| 3 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly in this sprawling rural district the tories are the second largest grouping on the council and a couple of gains for them could deny the independents overall control . |
| 5 | A family member who is addicted to " fixing " others and being a caretaker for them can hinder the chances or primary sufferers finding progress or recovery for themselves . |
| 6 | That children who experience a level of difficulty in learning significant enough for a Record of Needs to have been opened up for them can learn a foreign language within a special school setting . |
| 7 | There are a number of University Scholarships as well and those interested in applying for them should inform the Faculty and write to the Secretary to the University . |
| 8 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 9 | The distance between them would indicate a gate with at least two portals . |
| 10 | France has shown some sympathy ; an independent nuclear power , it has never accepted the notion that Russians and Americans between them should run the nuclear affairs of the world , let alone the post-Soviet world . |
| 11 | CONGRATULATIONS to the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , for proving the law that if one department is capable of one stupid press release , two between them can raise the stupidity by an order of magnitude . |
| 12 | The Executive Committee shall meet not less than twice a year in every calendar year : decide its own procedure : elect its own Chairman and Vice-Chairman , each of whom may hold the office for a maximum period of four consecutive years . |
| 13 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 14 | Although there is no animosity between the players , most of whom can see the benefits of joining forces , there remains a strong rivalry between those few people in either camp who have resisted amalgamation . |
| 15 | There is a captive audience , most of whom can understand the relevance of the message , and many are prepared to participate as they await their flight . |
| 16 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 17 | Looking back at these different sets of theories ( outlined in sections 5.3.2 , 5.3.3 and 5.3.4 ) , consider how each of them might explain the restructuring of local government ( discussed in Chapter 4 and referred to at the start of section 5.3 ) which took place in the 1980s ? |
| 18 | The typical economic variables used in empirical studies , variables such as output , prices and interest rates , are such that it is usually possible to think of some reason why any one of them might exert an independent influence on another . |
| 19 | And if the pirates sleep on shore tonight , one of them might have an unpleasant surprise ! ’ |
| 20 | We , however , are required to crouch in the heather , and so the attention is drawn through necessity to the things sharing that heather with you , in case any of them might take a fancy to your bottom and jump into your pants . |
| 21 | Daisy had once said that the three of them might spend a holiday together next year in San Gimignano . |
| 22 | Together or separately , the two of them may hold the key to power after the election . |
| 23 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 24 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 25 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 26 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 27 | Then , unerringly , he found his way to Modigliani , wherever he was , and the two of them would drink the night away until they were unconscious , taken to the police station and beaten up . |
| 28 | If the business is subsequently hived up to Newco at less than both cost and market value , this will depress the value of Target 's shares , so that a subsequent disposal of them would realise a loss . |
| 29 | Anyway , neither of them would inform the police about him . |
| 30 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |