Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . |
| 2 | But so many once-wealthy children are leaving the private sector that there is no room for them all at the most popular schools . |
| 3 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 4 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |
| 5 | The first 3 of them were the most important , supplying between them 61 of the mayors and 105 of the aldermen ( 128 , pp.107 , 109 ) . |
| 6 | I once spent a whole rehearsal on the Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffmann , which is for me one of the most tragic things in opera . |
| 7 | The Sixth is for me one of the greatest symphonies — and so seldom played in the past ! |
| 8 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 9 | We have had our ups and downs , but I have a very great regard for the organization and great affection for the head of the Accident Investigation and prevention Section , Olof Fritsch , who , notwithstanding all the times I twisted his tail , remains for me one of the great professionals totally devoted to improving safety in the air , and a true friend . |
| 10 | My little mistress went from her father 's bedroom to mine , and back again , and looked after us both with the greatest care . |
| 11 | They 'd stopped on their way across the marble floor , both of them blue-white in the lights and the fog . |
| 12 | Clark demonstrates that older people tried , where possible , to set up contractually based arrangements ( some of them enforceable through the courts ) to secure their livelihood and care in old age , through a system whereby they surrendered some of their rights to their land to a specified individual , in return for agreed services — ‘ individually arranged pension benefits ’ ( ibid . |
| 13 | So now he had in all 10,025.07 votes , 1,118.07 of them surplus to the quota . |
| 14 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 15 | Now , meantime , until this happy state of affairs has been reached and we can devolve these responsibilities , we continue to support individual artists directly ourselves , through a variety of schemes , all of which I like to think relate to making more of them accessible to the public . |
| 16 | about five of them all with the same name ? |
| 17 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 18 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 19 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 20 | Three other qualities , less obvious , emerge when we look deeper ; all of them relevant to the principal theme of this book . |
| 21 | The fist techniques of taekwondo involve lunge punches , reverse punches , back fists and hammer fists — all of them similar to the basic karate punches described in the previous chapter . |
| 22 | The members of each set are distinguished one from another by what are fairly well known , the different theories of the nature of probability , all of them consistent with the Probability Calculus . |
| 23 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 24 | The ritual , mysticism , animal blood-letting and involvement in unnecessary political and financial dealings , are merely additional undesirable activities , and are none of them essential to the needs of the god-hungry masses . |
| 25 | The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own . |
| 26 | Wales have made five changes one of them positional from the side which beat Namibia 38–23 at the weekend . |
| 27 | Official human rights sources in the country reported 228 " extrajudicial executions " and 45 disappearances in 1991 , two-thirds of them attributable to the security forces and civil patrols . |
| 28 | Are none of them aware of the dangers ? |
| 29 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 30 | However , these occasional tensions had been kept private until Robert and Samuel Wilberforce chose to make some of them public in the life of their father they published in 1838 . |