Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , Huy was visiting the embalmer alone , barely repressing his fury at the delay , but for which a girl 's life might have been saved . |
| 2 | The remaining items tended to be of the titillating variety of which a teenagers ' Christmas party is fairly typical : ‘ 8-in-a bed ’ sex romp . |
| 3 | Benjamin remarked , tellingly , that it is less a question of what a man 's beliefs are than the kind of man those beliefs make of him . |
| 4 | There seemed to be no consideration given as to how a management strategy would serve the processes desired , little attempt to anticipate possible outcomes or to arrange for specific progress points when reviews could be undertaken , nor to establish criteria against which a programme 's effectiveness would ultimately be evaluated . |
| 5 | To make matters worse , in vitro fertilisation is an experimental procedure and so there are not clearly defined standards of care against which a doctor 's actions could be judged . |
| 6 | There will , for the first time , be a national standard against which a pupil 's performance may be measured . |
| 7 | You 're sick with love for him , but he 'd never give a plain Jane like you a second 's thought . " |
| 8 | By the 1930s Carlism had behind it a century 's experience of political and military struggle against Spanish liberalism . |
| 9 | Was it , were you there when erm , Steve was saying that he would leave behind with me a recorder 's programme . |
| 10 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 11 | We your Memorialists therefore pray that your Worshipful Company will reduce the number of scholars to such an amount as will ensure scholars with whom a tradesman 's son ought to associate , leaving others to go to the National Schools . " |
| 12 | The property of springiness is easy enough to detect : it is in direct relation to the speed with which a runner 's foot leaves the surface after contact with the ground . |
| 13 | Amendment No. 27 is concerned only with assessing the degree of efficiency with which a school 's financial resources are managed . |
| 14 | In particular , the speed with which a man 's face is recognised is related to the degree to which information about his appearance , personality and biographical details is available to the observer . |
| 15 | Multilateralism is the opposite of bilateralism under which a country 's trade and investment is arranged on a reciprocal basis with specific partners . |
| 16 | A point of greater relevance to the UK is that it also differs greatly from trading and investment blocs under which a country 's trade and investment flows to countries within the bloc are free but there are restrictions between the bloc as a whole and the rest of the world . |
| 17 | Various provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988 ( ERA ) , particularly those relating to LMS ( under which a school 's funding is based largely on the numbers and ages of its pupils ) and more open enrolment , are aimed at creating a climate of heightened competition between schools for pupils , and the present study will be conducted within this new context . |
| 18 | For the longer term , it is worth noting that a number of the member states have a more independent system of audit , under which a company 's accounts are audited , not by its own accountants , but by auditors who primarily owe a public interest duty . |
| 19 | Monboddo led them in , saying that since he was dressed like a farmer , they should have with him a farmer 's family dinner . |
| 20 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |
| 21 | ( 1 ) This subsection specifies the only grounds upon which a seamen 's canteen licence may be refused . |
| 22 | Mr Tipping , from Cobham , Surrey , died in February during a reconstruction for BBC Television 's 999 series of a real-life incident in which a skydiver 's parachute became entangled in a plane 's wheels . |
| 23 | ‘ In the same way in which a person 's job can say something about the way he values himself and sees himself as being valued , there was considerable talk [ in the group ] about assessment and much time was devoted to the problems of time and motion and job evaluation . |
| 24 | Stress-induced mental problems can be abrupt and dramatic ; they include suicide attempts , irrational or violent behaviour , and the full-blown ‘ nervous breakdown ’ in which a person 's thoughts and behaviour become sufficiently deranged to merit admission to a psychiatric hospital . |
| 25 | Nozick , for example , formulates an entitlement theory of justice , in which a person 's property holdings are just if they are acquired through some just act of original acquisition or by some just transfer . |
| 26 | The generality of application or the audi alteram partem maxim , and its flexibility in operation , were brought out by Lord Loreburn L.C. , who stated that the maxim applied to ‘ everyone who decides anything , ’ while recognising also that the manner in which a person 's case was heard did not necessarily have to be the same as an ordinary trial . |
| 27 | It is one of the only everyday activities in which a person 's mistake or misfortune can lead to immediate injury or death . |
| 28 | The proposal seems to be mainly aimed at situations in which a patient 's testamentary capacity is in doubt ; however , the generalisation of its interpretation with respect to medical emergencies may expose doctors to legal proceedings even if they had acted in good faith and in the patient 's best interests . |
| 29 | 2.29 The assessment of a husband 's claim is made in a not dissimilar fashion to the way in which a wife 's claim is approached . |
| 30 | From the evidence of a 10-country study , Gladstone ( 1984 ) notes that the activities , structure and functions of employers ' associations do show a good deal of inter country variation , often a reflection of distinctive historical experiences and a particular course of industrialisation with resultant differences in the environment in which a country 's industrial relations system has to operate . |