Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately their crude tactics , due to a very low educational level , made them better counter-agents than agents for the Bolsheviks . |
| 2 | " Well , I 'd say they 've copied a good idea from the squirrels and that makes them better rabbits . " |
| 3 | The rivets of personal weapons were capped with silver in order to make them better symbols of the superior power and prestige of their owners , not to render them more effective in actual warfare ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I had three kids , Australia seemed to offer them better prospects than England and I was proved right , ’ he says . |
| 5 | All we dare claim is that we are making them better readers ’ ( p. 56 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 7 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 8 | What tipped the balance was a decision by some 3,000 Protestant electors to desert the Ulster Unionist candidate — for whom all nationalists were the same — and vote tactically in favour of the non-violent nationalism of the Social Democratic and Labour party victor , Joe Hendron . |
| 9 | Almighty God , unto whom all hearts be open , all desires known , and from whom no secrets are hid . |
| 10 | Is the Nat Sec the person through whom all dealings with the nation 's Churches at central level are to be conducted ( eg Synods , Assemblies , central women 's organisations , youth offices etc ) ? |
| 11 | Is Nat Sec the person through whom all dealings with government departments are to be channelled ( eg Dept of Education , Dept of Environment who are responsible for house to house collections in N.I ) ? |
| 12 | This was the man to whom all things were known ; this was the king who knew the countries of the world . |
| 13 | Jesus Christ , through whom all things were created , |
| 14 | there is only one Lord , Jesus Christ , through whom all things were created and through whom we live |
| 15 | In any event , do not descend to the clichés of politician and journalist for whom all changes are ‘ dramatic ’ , all majorities are ‘ vast ’ and all proportions are ‘ mammoth ’ . |
| 16 | Each day ( or weekend ) there is a co-ordinator , who is either the Deputy Chief , one of the Principals or the Assistant Principal , to whom all accidents are reported . |
| 17 | In that respect , he envied them ; he worked with human beings , on whom all studies have to be done in the wild . |
| 18 | He strode ahead of Karlinsky , upon whom all eyes were fastened , and a few steps behind Karlinsky came Mrs Klein . |
| 19 | I am the person on whom all hopes are pinned , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ We shall now sing one chorus of ‘ Praise God , from Whom all Blessings Flow ’ , Lambert announced . |
| 21 | ‘ The horrible nature of this attack only underlines that these are the sort of people whom all democrats oppose . ’ |
| 22 | The horrible nature of the attack only underlines the fact that those are the sort of people whom all democrats oppose . |
| 23 | Five minutes later we were sailing through rafts of them only feet from the boat . |
| 24 | A BRITON was shot dead protecting his fiancee when muggers ambushed them only hours after they arrived in Florida . |
| 25 | But what use are visions if you ca n't transcribe them so others can make some sense of them ? |
| 26 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 27 | Yet ne'ertheless , My spritely brethren , I propend to you In resolution to keep Helen still ; For t is a cause that has no mean dependence Upon our joint and several dignities . |
| 28 | That is one thing I , I , I do n't know why I just lovebites out . |
| 29 | I always times , the thing I forgotten to think about was that lock , I really ought to do that |
| 30 | Well we put pressure on , but I mean I 'm so I still governments tend to feel that the normal family is is the nuclear family and as , as Susan said earlier one parent families are seen as a burden on the state rather than a valid new family in society . |