Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them the MacSharry treatment is grim : slashed prices , grants that taper away with increasing size of farm , and good land forced to lie fallow . |
| 2 | For them the twin notions of ‘ education ’ and ‘ schooling ’ , which are still locked together in everyday parlance , are beginning to tear apart , and there is an uncomfortable sense that the latter may no longer be the best vehicle for the delivery of the former . |
| 3 | For them the Phillips curve was a statistical mirage , a trompe l'oeil . |
| 4 | Whereas for the Head of Department , evidence concerning professional competence was additionally available from two other sources ( examination results , curriculum management ) , for them the lesson visits constituted the only source of ‘ objective ’ evidence . |
| 5 | They were still prisoners of the attraction which , under the guise of antipathy , had arced between them the moment Nathan had entered the Customs office . |
| 6 | Between them the force curtain rippled and parted . |
| 7 | And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance . |
| 8 | So many conductors — and I must say Furtwängler was sometimes one of these — create enormous crescendi ; and after them the music collapses . |
| 9 | Not only , she was thinking , did n't Arnie look after her the way Guido did , but , far more alarming , there was something else he 'd never done . |
| 10 | They were passing over North Gate Bridge , and below them the River Lee flowed on to Cork harbour and the open sea . |
| 11 | The reverse of both tiles was damaged , and on only one of them the letters NDS END could just be made out , but Martha could not be mistaken . |
| 12 | She said one of them the sex offender made her and the woman get into a bath of cold water fully-clothed . |
| 13 | Until the kuriltai most of the Altun had entertained no notion of the problems presented by the campaign To the majority of them the Alan country was just another part of the continent . |
| 14 | and erm then some of the people like er er in London started out erm making shades or er fittings which were erm quite at home in the house er or in the office and erm these were , well that is one design of them the wall back is to match you see , er but you could equally er , put those into erm hotel bedroom or something or er hotel lounge somewhere there , erm or you can get them large with more lamps in them I think and all sorts of new designs were coming out mainly in , in plastic er and erm |
| 15 | To all of them the story pattern of Mary 's assent to God 's will at the Annunciation , enabling the birth of his Son who was involved with suffering , death , but also with resurrection and ascension in time , discloses a means of re-ordering ( literally transforming ) their own experience . |
| 16 | The hall is surrounded by 30,000 people and for most of them the state housing and welfare system is a failure . |
| 17 | However , for many of them the £1,500-£2,000 cost per head of attending courses can no longer be recovered by using the hours saved to boost fees . |
| 18 | And it is significant that for many of them the beacon light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . ’ |
| 19 | The president vainly suggested Courtney , then Partridge , though like all three of them the record holder is from the North-East . |
| 20 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 21 | When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ . |
| 22 | For the recording of his The Manson Family , Moran decided to take on the role of Charlie himself , his unsettling experience with the Psychological Club being , perhaps , influential to his chilling performance . |
| 23 | While that argument would beg an important question , on the face of it the marriage laws do seem to promote the function of optimal outbreeding . |
| 24 | West of the Brandenburg Gate is the Deutsche Oper , east of it the Deutsche Staatsoper and the Komische Oper . |
| 25 | At the bottom of it the Cheney Longville road can be seen crossing the double track of the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , as it still does , by an overbridge . |
| 26 | I 've got a copy of it the dustbin game . |
| 27 | For you the tape measure did n't shrink — it just followed the wonkyness of the two-dimensional surface as it hollowed out into the third dimension . |
| 28 | During the 1890s he attended dinners in Paris , moved in informed circles and had many friends in influential positions , amongst them the statesman Clemenceau ; he read newspapers , subscribed to journals and amassed a huge library ; he also kept abreast of political and cultural matters , having pronounced views on the Dreyfus Affair and initiating a subscription to acquire Monet 's Olympia for the nation . |
| 29 | Other powerful allies emerged , amongst them the Child Poverty Action Group and the Trade Union Congress ( House of Commons ( HOC ) , 1973 , Vol . |
| 30 | Beneath them the coal seams are buried and preserved for our miners today . |