Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are indeed vital , but overconcern about them obscures wider issues . |
| 2 | Second-hand pipe organs are sometimes worth considering when they are fine instruments and when the total cost of their purchase , removal and rebuilding in a place suitable for them makes economic sense . |
| 3 | To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay . |
| 4 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 5 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 6 | McCallen 's next outing will be the Isle of Man TT , practice for which begins next week . |
| 7 | All our pension fund assets are managed by independent , professional fund managers , each of whom has specific instructions that no asset may be invested in or loaned to Tomkins , in any way , ’ Mr Duncan explains . |
| 8 | Just a quick word about this lot , each of whom has special characteristics . |
| 9 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 10 | The largest of them have lion mouths and a lion face on the base of the barrel ; these were cast in 1599 in Munich for Duke Maximilian I. Each of them weighs 7,225 lbs . |
| 11 | The consequence has been to diminish the credibility of both ; for nobody can have any confidence that what either of them says one week will still be government policy the next . |
| 12 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
| 13 | None of them commands much loyalty amongst the other provinces and each effectively rules an independent state . |
| 14 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 15 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 16 | None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way . |
| 17 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 18 | In short , if any of them reaches this standard it should be acceptable Community-wide |
| 19 | Three rivers rise in these uplands , the Nene , Welland and Avon , but none of them carries much water before they drain eastward and westward off the plateau , and the total water supply available for canal development in the area was never adequate . |
| 20 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 21 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |
| 22 | However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general . |
| 23 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
| 24 | A comprehensive trouble-shooting guide is given opposite which summarises most problems that arise . |
| 25 | Then there are n stages , each of which generates one quotient bit and a new partial remainder . |
| 26 | The aims of sexual activity may focus on any of the erotogenic zones , that is , those parts of the skin , or those organs of the body , the stimulation of which produces sensual pleasure . |
| 27 | It 's not like opposing nuclear reactors or toxic waste dumps , each one of which poses new risks to new areas . |
| 28 | This may seem simple but , as I shall try to show , it involves a series of steps , each of which poses difficult problems . |
| 29 | .. ’ . The second is completed by specifying a position or role the occupier of which possesses certain rights and duties , and which the consent purports to allow Y to occupy . |
| 30 | There is one elementary truth , the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans ; and the moment one definitely commits oneself , then Providence moves too . |