Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus is the prophet ( Luke 7 : 16 A t 3:22 , 7:37 ) the long-awaited prophet of the end-time , Through whom the prophetic Spirit so active in the Old Testament , gave full and final revelation . |
| 2 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
| 3 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 4 | Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) . |
| 5 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 6 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 7 | It probably only includes counterparties and not a client for whom the firm acts in a transaction with another firm ( eg , an IMRO member who is a client of an SFA broker ) . |
| 8 | The SFA listed categories test includes advisory clients and clients for whom the firm acts , in addition to counterparties ; it excludes many more clients or counterparties from being customers than does the SIB transactional test and is thus very helpful . |
| 9 | The Good Book has taught us their image , they must be outcasts with the mark of Cain upon them , Ishmaels for whom the savage wilderness is home till they come to know the wisdom of the Lord . |
| 10 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 11 | However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups . |
| 12 | One might speculate that an impending solution to the Northern Ireland problem would split off from the clerical leadership those groups for whom the present position is only accepted on pragmatic grounds . |
| 13 | The second group may be further divided into two segments : those for whom the present unemployment is a single episode and those who are intermittently unemployed . |
| 14 | Not far behind this overall vision of justice came his anxious consideration that the particular saints of each church , for whom the present community was only the trustee , would demand from their trustees a full account of their stewardship down to the most minute particulars . |
| 15 | This notice does not apply to members who have joined since Christmas for whom the current membership lasts until March 1991 . |
| 16 | A service development programme is needed to provide non-standard services to groups for whom the traditional model of primary care , based on serving a family of fixed abode , is inappropriate . |
| 17 | It is more likely that she was a schizophrenic , for whom the religious beliefs of her day provided a means of escape from the daily life with which her inadequate personality could not cope . |
| 18 | Most fellows would have dined in college on most nights , whether they were married or not ; and the huge majority were still bachelors for whom the celibate life was the norm . |
| 19 | There are groups in hospitals and prisons for whom the regular CAB is inaccessible at any time . |
| 20 | In the end , even gentle Jane Taylor , author of ‘ Twinkle , twinkle little star … ’ was not exempted from the criticism of those for whom the sharp outlines of heaven and hell had become blurred , and who regarded Evangelicals and Nonconformists as purveyors of needless gloom . |
| 21 | The potential gain if one was ‘ exceptional ’ , however , and qualified for an early release is so powerful that few men are prepared to forego it The result is a shabby , futile process that Probation Officers feel makes subsequent work with inmates more difficult , that exasperates prison officers who see the time and energy in compiling reports as wasted , and infuriates prisoners for whom the probable refusal of parole , with its tiny element of uncertainty , makes prison life even harder to bear . |
| 22 | The reader for whom the new novelist is writing , in other words , is not the traditionally passive figure who is content to accept and , indeed , expects a straightforward narrative expounding a clear-cut view of the world , but an accomplice who will collaborate with the author in the search for a deeper understanding of a complex and confusing world . |
| 23 | If the person who does the interviewing is not the person for whom the new employee will be working then it is essential that that person should at least be allowed to sit in on interviews and have an agreed say in the final decision . |
| 24 | For each change , can you specify receivers with particular knowledge or lack of it for whom the new use would be correct ? |
| 25 | Maps do not portray the existence and aspirations of Palestinians , Armenians , Druze , Souryanis , Assyrians , Bedouin , Kurds and many others for whom the real map of the Middle East is written on the heart , where identity and hope are nurtured generation after generation . |
| 26 | The refusal of Erastus to derive the forms of bodies from the stars , or from anything within nature , pointed toward the empiricism of Bacon , for whom the only guides to knowledge were experience and the bible . |
| 27 | Some of the most accomplished yelling was conducted by men for whom the only college worth getting in a strop over was of the electoral variety . |
| 28 | Scott 's reply last month did not reassure : ‘ The highest priority for independent living must be given to that group of people for whom the usual pattern is to live and work in the community . |
| 29 | Then come the children for whom the nightly forage produces not only improvised toys but anything which can conceivably be sold to raise a bit of cash . |
| 30 | for whom the sexual act , through a whim of nature 's , |