Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 2 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 3 | In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings , through which nothing but the ragwort would grow . |
| 4 | In the distance the curving edge of it ; everywhere else below her nothing but the flat expanse of mottled brown and grey . |
| 5 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember ; I was n't aware of it myself in the beginning . ’ |
| 7 | And that 's Unicyle Hockey for you What about the plumbers piping , the garden netting and safety pins ? |
| 8 | Sections 34–43 give the Director power to act against someone who in the course of business persistently breaks the law ( civil or criminal ) in a way detrimental to the interests of consumers . |
| 9 | It 's like our one in the bedroom . |
| 10 | These people bring with them something of the evangelist 's zeal . |
| 11 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 12 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 13 | We shall meet copies in which something of the original beauty seems to live through these disadvantages . |
| 14 | A further offence is to be found in the Mail Order Transactions ( Information ) Order 1976 , whereby written advertisements in which someone in the course of a business invites from consumers mail orders for goods , with payment in advance , must include a legible description of the name and address of the person inviting the orders . |
| 15 | The most remarkable thing is the way in which someone from the most privileged home in the land should strike a chord with those from the most deprived backgrounds . |
| 16 | One man was whimpering in the corner and two others were playing a bizarre version of dominoes , in which none of the numbers matched . |
| 17 | Even worse , there are ILPs in which none of the rounded solutions is feasible ( Exercise 1 ) . |
| 18 | It will also be the first since 1979 in which none of the parties is expected to gain an outright majority . |
| 19 | We remember in particular from that section that there are conditions in which none of the steady state solutions is stable ; we left open the question of what happens then . |
| 20 | We do not wish to commit Spain to entering the war merely in order to frighten England into a peace from which nothing but the independence of the Americans would be obtained … |
| 21 | In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' : |
| 22 | North Africa had brought out in him something of the stern Roman . |
| 23 | Perhaps I see in him something of the son I would like to have had , but never did . |
| 24 | The still joy of the mind in its state of non thought has in it something beyond the rational and it defies explanation . |
| 25 | Vision has in it something of the ‘ himma ’ of the sufis . |
| 26 | His adaptation of Twomey 's words and manner had in it something like the meticulous grace of his dancing to his mother 's music . |
| 27 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 28 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 29 | ‘ To me everyone in the pop has an image of being stoned and drunk every night . |
| 30 | It had to me something of the effect that arises from the turning up of the fresh soil , or of the first welcome breath of Spring . |