Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The distance between them would indicate a gate with at least two portals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And if the pirates sleep on shore tonight , one of them might have an unpleasant surprise ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Daisy had once said that the three of them might spend a holiday together next year in San Gimignano . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy . |
| 15 | But most of them would have a neck that was quite high ; modesty was getting to be a really important factor , so we 're covered from head to toe . |
| 16 | They were known as ‘ bee grenades ’ , and just one of them could disperse a big group of enemies , who would flee leaving their modern weapons behind . |
| 17 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 18 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 19 | Not only were the chronologically old ( i.e. those over 60/65 ) capable of remaining within the community until biological old age was reached , but even then , given appropriate community support , many of them could enjoy a full personal and community life . |
| 20 | One of the teachers was saying that you give children pieces of paper to draw anything and most of them will draw a soldier carrying a gun or Caspers , or helicopters , something to do with war . |
| 21 | The basic purpose of the ranking is to equalize the workload among tutors and to determine which one of them will make a decision on each applicant . |
| 22 | Some smoke alarms can be linked together so that if one of them senses smoke , all of them will sound an alarm . |
| 23 | However , contrary to popular belief other predators , such as lions and cheetahs , never take wind direction into account when stalking , and the faintest whiff of them will cause a herd to become alert . |
| 24 | He knows that neither of them will utter a word till they 're hanging by their balls from Tower Bridge . |
| 25 | The crackling of a fire , the dawn chorus of the birds , the sound of waves upon the shore ; most of these go unnoticed and yet each of them can give a great deal of pleasure if we could only learn to become aware of them . |
| 26 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 27 | Similarly , there are a number of actors who specialize in doing the commentary or ‘ voice over ’ on commercials : some of them can do a variety of voices and accents very convincingly , but others become extremely recognizable and , in effect , boringly over-exposed . |
| 28 | Any one of these subsidiary factors may be sufficiently important to render a farm unsuitable , but no combination of them can make a viable farm if the land has insufficient potential . |
| 29 | Spiders are close relatives of scorpions and many of them can deliver a painful bite . |
| 30 | Jasper Carrott and Phil Cool : Middlesbrough Town Hall It is always good to see big-name comedy acts reaching the North-East other than in Newcastle , more especially when there are two such acts and both of them can keep a crowd laughing all evening . |