Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My hands and feet a bit , but that 's usual for me in hot weather . ’ |
| 2 | The horse 's sense of smell is acute , and it is dependent upon it for adequate communication with other horses . |
| 3 | The argument that cheaper labour costs force manufacture abroad should not be acceptable to us as prospective purchasers . |
| 4 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 5 | The Dependency Ratio , refers to the ratio between those in employment and those dependent on them for financial support , — directly or indirectly eg children , the elderly and the unemployed . |
| 6 | They hinted to all the women dependent on them in various ways that their shrill cries rendered them boring , humourless , sexually unappetising ; they talked of castration by these same women and wept and offered themselves as small soft snails out of their snailshells to be cosseted back by mummy into strength and pleasure-giving . |
| 7 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 8 | However , the company 's real problem ( hardly unique to it in general publishing ) was not profitability , but cash flow . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd be rude to her about silly things . |
| 10 | He charges scientists and corporations involved in it with basic misrepresentation especially when they claim that the techniques are no more than sophisticated extensions of classical breeding skills . |
| 11 | Sir Arthur married a Florence Long in 1882 , a marriage that was useful to him in social circles as his brother-in-law was a powerful Member of Parliament , but Sir Arthur 's true love was reserved for British deaf people . |
| 12 | ‘ But even more so would be the benefit of their experiences which will be invaluable to me at national team level ’ . |
| 13 | Thus the overshadowing effect can be explained without recourse to the mechanisms usually supposed to be responsible for it in associative learning ( but see Pearce 1987 ) . |
| 14 | The territory was not densely settled and while emigrants to America might be loyal subjects of Charles II , in Virginia , or might be deeply distrustful of him on religious grounds , as in New England , they were not certainly united with one another . |
| 15 | There were men and women there who looked narrowly at Adam when they clapped eyes on him , and being alone with him in quiet places called him tentatively by name . |
| 16 | He was angry with it for existing , and terrified by the reminder that one day he might catch it himself . |
| 17 | Fibre is important to us in healthy eating because it provides filling food without being fattening . |
| 18 | Therapists should be interviewed and their views on issues important to you in other areas of your life examined . |
| 19 | And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ? |
| 20 | I am grateful to him for gentle handling . |
| 21 | Behind him he left , according to a contemporary chronicler , the Bannock Burn so dammed by the dead ‘ that men might pass dry over it upon drowned horses and men ’ . |
| 22 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 23 | On the picket lines themselves , the police made uncompromising use of the discretion available to them under public-order law . |
| 24 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 25 | Operational planners viewed L Detachment as a parachute force pure and simple , which should be available to them for short-term aims . |
| 26 | Oxford Molecular exists to ensure that the latest research software is made available to them at acceptable prices . |
| 27 | But in any case a lower proportion of men were employed in Scottish textiles than in English mills , partly because better-paid jobs were available to them in heavy industry . |
| 28 | As for the second factor , the January 1959 revolution in Cuba irreversibly changed the perceptions of Soviet policy-makers concerning the opportunities available to them in Latin America . |
| 29 | It can give moral support and advice on numerous problems connected with your and your parent 's rights to various types of State benefits and services , the support that may be available to you from voluntary bodies , and help in planning ahead for accommodation if this proves necessary when your parent dies . |
| 30 | Non-intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation techniques acting as ‘ bridges to transplantation ’ were not available to us for clinical purposes in 1985–6 , but various recent studies have suggested that well selected patients undergoing such mechanical interventions ( ventricular assist device , B ventricular assist device , total artificial heart ) have a similar short term outlook to those undergoing ‘ elective ’ transplantation . |