Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 These were either portraits of the young queen or of her in a group with , for example , her knights of the Garter or on progress .
2 At present hospitals and community services often use the translation services of a relative who is bilingual , or of a kitchen porter or nurse who may know nothing of mental health problems , or of anyone in the vicinity who happens to speak the language .
3 As the delusion begins to work ( Ind. ii.1–67 ) , Sly gradually levitates up to verse , as if hypnotized , or like someone in an early painting by Chagall , just taking off : Yet , when confronted with his supposed wife , desires of the flesh begin to reassert themselves , and he relapses into prose and bawdy ( 125ff . ) .
4 Then out on to an assignment or with somebody in the field for a couple of days whichever company you go into .
5 ‘ You were n't particularly impressed either with racing or with me as a driver , were you ? ’
6 Considerable care should be exercised when extrapolating the results of cost effectiveness from one country to another or including them in the same league table .
7 If so , was she bigger than him or above him in the pecking order ?
8 Other options include using kerb stones to form the steps ( which will then be of a narrower depth than usual ) ; placing the bricks which form the risers on top of the paver which forms the tread , or alongside them at the back of each tread ( this alters the height of the risers , and the depth of the tread ) ; and using bricks or paviours for treads as well as risers , which will give a slightly more ‘ rustic ’ look .
9 2.3 " Adjoining Property " means any neighbouring or adjoining land or premises ( excluding the remainder of the Centre ) in which the Landlord or a Group Company has a freehold or leasehold interest or in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired a freehold or leasehold interest There is no objection to this provided that the existence of any adjoining property does not have an adverse effect on the tenant 's contribution towards service charges or other costs referred to in the lease and the tenant should therefore be vigilant in this regard when amending the lease .
10 Messages indicate whether the card is correctly placed , or in which of the four principal direction(s) it is out of position .
11 If the victim is in an adjoining house , or in one across the street , no offence is committed .
12 ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers ,
13 A Parisian-born chef of the early nineteenth century brings to perfection — or to what at the time is considered perfection — a grandiose dish of sole in a white wine and cream sauce with a ceremonial garnish of freshwater crayfish , fried gudgeons , oysters , mushrooms and prawns impaled on ornamental skewers .
14 To standards of conduct attained in other countries , metropolitan standards , or to something on the island ?
15 The alternatives were either to make a massive quarry or to mine into the fell .
16 9.7 Accidents The Landlord shall not be responsible to the Tenant or to anyone at the Premises or the Centre expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority for any accident happening or injury suffered or for any damage or to or loss of any chattel sustained in the Premises or the Centre There is a question mark attached to the effectiveness of this provision on the basis that a party can not exclude its liability for death or personal injuries caused by its negligence .
17 7.2 Landlord to insure The Landlord covenants with the Tenant to insure the Premises and the Retained Parts [ subject to the Tenant paying the Insurance Rent ] unless such insurance shall be vitiated by any act of the Tenant or by anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority [ and under the Tenant 's control ] While it would be preferable for the insurance to be in the joint names of the landlord and the tenant in order to give the tenant more control over the insurance and to avoid the problem of subrogation referred to below , landlords tend to resist this , presumably on the basis that they wish to retain absolute control and not rely on the tenant in any way as regards the insurance cover .
18 They go and off it with the doctor .
19 Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion .
20 I have not described a tenacious battle to secure compensation for a number of distinguished urologists who contracted hepatitis , believedly at a medical banquet , and for whom at the end of the day a moderate degree of compensation was — against considerable odds — secured .
21 Under communism there would be no exploitation , and society would be run by and for everyone on the basis of equality and community .
22 Nothing , blessed state for the hard-working Crispin , and for myself after the turmoil of exams and end of term .
23 The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party .
24 And for her at the most , third sight .
25 Erm , but Greater Manchester West is the first erm constituency to select , and for us as a regional party , er the procedures which you have adopted erm have been a model if you like , and the way John and his team have conducted the election , er deserve our praise and thanks ,
26 I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime .
27 What he lacks , though , is White 's flayed Christian moral sense : hs profound , compassionate identification with his characters ' sufferings , and through them with the world 's .
28 Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 .
29 As he warmed to his theme , George forgot he was talking to one individual , and through him to a huge lay audience .
30 : The state under ‘ crown privilege ’ would have the right to withhold crown documents such as the RUC report to the Director of Public Prosecutions and through him to the Attorney General .
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