Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
| 10 | None of them commands much loyalty amongst the other provinces and each effectively rules an independent state . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 13 | None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way . |
| 14 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 15 | In short , if any of them reaches this standard it should be acceptable Community-wide |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 18 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
| 21 | Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job . |
| 22 | But none of you has any choice because you all have reserved seats . |
| 23 | Neither of you has any business bringing an unwanted " out of time " baby into the world . |
| 24 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 25 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 26 | A bachelor friend of mine takes great pride in culinary art which leaves him never short of admiring girlfriends . |
| 27 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 28 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 29 | Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous . |
| 30 | I 'm a free man , and all that you hold dear , you rich men — and beggars too — none of it has any power over me . ’ |