Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the simple plot of the search for Lata 's husband , Seth unfolds the story of four families , the Mehras , Kapoors , Chatterjis and Khans , and through them reveals a panorama of modern India . |
| 2 | There are two child narrators who work in tandem , but distinguishing between them poses no problem , and their identity is never overtly threatened . |
| 3 | In terms of their greenbelt function , the the the the boundary between them has no effect on the greenbelt purposes . |
| 4 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 5 | This memorandum , issued by the physician superintendent of Neasden Hospital , London , to all his medical officers over 25 years ago , attracted widespread opprobrium from the UK national press and the chronologically correct if sexist response from the British Medical Journal that ‘ every patient whatever his age or his disease should be resuscitated unless the doctor looking after him has no doubt at all that he should be allowed to rest in peace ’ . |
| 6 | The man opposite me yanks the communication cord , and we lurch to a halt . |
| 7 | Surely one of thee needs a drudge ? |
| 8 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 9 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 10 | But they can not be alike , since one of them requires a sentient being for its existence while the other does not . |
| 11 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |
| 12 | Now what they do is each of them takes a piece of fruit each time they go |
| 13 | One of them takes the form of an almost completely restored mining village , complete with a stream-driven miners ' cage , ironworks , a bakery selling delicious break baked on the spot , as well as other ships and an ‘ antique ’ house suitably equipped — i.e. with a black-leaded range and |
| 14 | ‘ One of them plays the piano most beautifully . |
| 15 | And these six can now be further reduced by asking which of them meets a number of desirable but not essential wants : Which of them has a garden ? |
| 16 | Ninety-nine per cent is a majority , just as 51 per cent is , but the word ‘ majority ’ applied to both of them obscures a world of difference . |
| 17 | Once long ago , Otto Werner 's father had danced with Esther Breuer 's mother , on New Year 's Eve , in Vienna , in 1925 : but neither of them remembers the incident , and therefore , perhaps , it does not exist ? |
| 18 | One of them concerns the possibility of a distinction between numerical and species identity , i.e. the problem of individuation of ontological particulars . |
| 19 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |
| 20 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 21 | Not one of them has a day 's experience of working in British industry . |
| 22 | And these six can now be further reduced by asking which of them meets a number of desirable but not essential wants : Which of them has a garden ? |
| 23 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 24 | Each of them has a value and a part to play but they should serve us ; we should not be their slaves . |
| 25 | ‘ One of them has no brain at all , the other is all brain . ’ |
| 26 | And I can promise you that more than one of them has no right to be there . |
| 27 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 28 | But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other . |
| 29 | Each of them has the power to decide immediately to stop purchasing tuna caught by fishing on dolphins . |
| 30 | You feel quite confident in interviewing both of them , but as it turns out only one of them has the imagination to emphasise with your ideas and within three weeks he is in situ . |