Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to allow disabled people access to this equipment , if we are serious about them taking part in the planning and evaluation of services . |
| 2 | The chemical agent which they contain , making it possible for them to use water in the photosynthetic process , is chlorophyll , which is also possessed by true algae and the higher plants . |
| 3 | Consequently accountants are in a highly dependent position compared to most professions ; it is difficult for them to use professionalism as a market strategy . |
| 4 | Given full rein to run as far as they want , the plants are living very well and do n't feel in any particular danger , so there is no need for them to waste energy by perpetuating the species and going to the trouble of producing flower and setting seed . |
| 5 | The work of health visitors — traditionally and profitably with mothers and children — threatens to be ‘ undermined ’ by increasing requests from general practitioners for them to take part in the home care of the very old ( ibid. : 131 ) . |
| 6 | It may be that , for them , the attraction of SSE in general and of this scheme in particular lies in the opportunity it appears to offer for them to take part in decisions about school policy . |
| 7 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 8 | The Socialists had captured a large number of the Councils and Boards of Guardians throughout the country , and there was only one thing left for them to take charge of — the British Empire . |
| 9 | If anyone else lives there they 'll know what I mean ) My intense dislike for them grows day by day , just like my overdraught . |
| 10 | I mean it really does depend upon how secure they were and how much , how much support , ge genuine support they had of the , the masses as a whole , because if they did n't then there 's no way , and people were n't calling for them to establish socialism at that time were they ? |
| 11 | Later abolitionists exemplified in Buxton and Cropper , though it might have seemed easier for them to adopt antislavery as a routine , not only maintained vital feeling in their commitment but possessed sufficient accompanying serenity — ‘ we have more than human help ’ — to accommodate setbacks and ‘ to triumph over the storms which surround them ’ . |
| 12 | INDUSTRIALISTS in the US hope that a new research facility providing high-energy radiation will recover for them lost ground in areas as diverse as microcircuitry and metals processing . |
| 13 | He says in his affirmation , with the support of letters from his doctor , that he and his wife suffer from heart conditions and other ailments which make it undesirable for them to occupy accommodation above the level of the ground floor . |
| 14 | Since the 1981 Education Act requires that the wishes of the parents are fully taken into account when school placement is determined , it will be important for them to have access to consultation and discussion with a professional who is well informed about both the educational needs of visually handicapped children and the schools and support services available . |
| 15 | As computer whizzes , the twins ' main expertise is the logic of programming languages , so it is natural for them to discuss story-telling in terms of program-writing . |
| 16 | When their control is threatened it is possible for them to obtain relief by displacing a prominently misbehaving pupil . |
| 17 | Does the Minister agree that to resolve the problem it is very important to engage those countries in the United Nations and that as Byelorussia and Ukraine are already members of the United Nations it becomes imperative — in view of his earlier answer about Russia remaining a nuclear power — for them to obtain membership of the United Nations and of the Security Council in their own right ? |
| 18 | It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions . |
| 19 | It was concluded that mammalian carnivores produce greater degrees of breakage generally than do avian raptors , and there are sufficient differences between them to enable identification of the predator on breakage pattern alone at least to family level . |
| 20 | In our feasibility study , we found that these two types were both represented in the samples of social work offered to us as examples of secondary prevention , and a distinction between them made sense to the practitioners . |
| 21 | The centres are all currently Executive Agencies which between them generate business worth more than £100m a year . |
| 22 | As for service , it is not for me to give value to the two halves of my equation . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Then — do you think it would be possible for me to take Azor for a walk ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't possible for me to take time off work , ’ Ashley protested . |
| 26 | ‘ Why should it be so strange for me to find work with IMP ? |
| 27 | Which would be as good a way as any for me to get Rainbow off the premises , before those inhibitions of hers — which I 've left bound and gagged at the back of her wardrobe — work their knots out and come riding to the rescue . |
| 28 | I showed them how to build my mast , and soon everything was ready for me to start work on the woman monster . |
| 29 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 30 | I raised with counsel the question whether , on an appeal such as this , it was appropriate or permissible for me to have regard to those additional findings and reasons . |