Example sentences of "[subord] any of them " in BNC.
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| 1 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 2 | The story of the golden calf is not quite a complaint story , though it is more terrible than any of them , and as it proceeds shares many of their features , particularly those of the one in Numbers 14 . |
| 3 | Libya had a wealthier , more urbanized , more stably employed population than any of them and , by every canon of development science , Libyans ought to have been less influenced by atavism than other North Africans . |
| 4 | That is , the common ancestor of these phyla was much simpler in its anatomy than any of them , and the anatomical complexities ( e.g. segmented body plan , skeletal structures , image-forming eyes ) evolved independently in the different phyla , although it is impossible to be sure of this in the absence of an adequate fossil record before about 600 million years ago . |
| 5 | Not particularly good-looking but by God she was more of a man than any of them . |
| 6 | Modigliani felt the pain of these visits more than any of them , and was horrified to see his old friend in dingy and sinister surroundings , humiliated and frightened . |
| 7 | Mama Cass had done better than any of them with her solo career , but then tragically died so soon afterwards . |
| 8 | Ten times larger than any of them , he descended on to the deck of the warring vessel like the giant from the top of the beanstalk , like Captain Bligh , like Neptune , like her love . |
| 9 | But , with the Great War looming , the future will be harsher than any of them could ever expect … |
| 10 | Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan . |
| 11 | Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did . |
| 12 | Heseltine is currently in a stronger position than any of them . |
| 13 | However he went extra wide , and ended up getting in more business than any of them . |
| 14 | " Hazel could not help noticing , with reluctant admiration , that although Bigwig had lost his temper , he was apparently in no hurry on his own account and seemed less frightened than any of them . |
| 15 | She looked more out of place in the shabby pub than any of them . |
| 16 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 17 | This is to be a longer and harder fight than any of them have ever witnessed at Sinatra 's or the Rainbow or any one of dozens of warehouses and car parks . |
| 18 | But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’ |
| 19 | He knew , as well , that Tree Spirits cling tenaciously to their homes until those homes become untenable because of the Tree dying and drying and he thought that Miach 's spell must have been stronger than any of them had thought for it to draw the Spirits so filly and so firmly into the open . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's no more than any of them deserve . ’ |
| 21 | These people never realize that I can stand a row better than any of them , he thought . |
| 22 | More , perhaps , than any of them . |
| 23 | So Tess was more of a d'Urberville than any of them , but did not know it . |
| 24 | My school vied with eight grammar schools and produced results better than any of them — and for many more children . |
| 25 | Yet in a curious way it was John who did more to restore Sam than any of them . |
| 26 | I think all religions stink , actually , but Christianity stinks worse than any of them . ’ |
| 27 | His loss distressed Tallis more than any of them . |
| 28 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 29 | I am bigger than any of them , but I think the reason they let me through is because I am older : they assume I am crew . |
| 30 | I remember , twenty years ago , thinking you were greater than any of them ! ’ |