Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they men who had been quarry men ? |
| 2 | Basically , it 's another one , is n't it , where whatever money we put towards it , and the end of the day what they get left with comes back into the community . |
| 3 | However , as one speechreader said to me , ‘ By using my eyes , I often find my way around large terminals and airports much more easily than my friends who can hear and who are automatically inclined to rely on announcements . ’ |
| 4 | These wider mills were thus squarer than their predecessors which had tended to be long and narrow . |
| 5 | Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) . |
| 6 | Shareholders are right to wonder whether , if business is going to be that good , it should be they rather than their managers who make the killing . |
| 7 | There is reason to believe that young children admitted to care have greater medical needs than their peers who are not in care ; and that a greater proportion are handicapped . |
| 8 | They must keep within the budget , but if they spend less than their limit they can reallocate it to other purposes within the practice . |
| 9 | If all referees would make sure that the shoulders of the two front rows are higher than their hips there would be no collapsed scrums ’ , he said . |
| 10 | If all referees would make sure that the shoulders of the two front rows are higher than their hips there would be no collapsed scrums ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Ayre said a national report earlier in the week showed grant maintained schools were faring better than their counterparts which had not yet opted out . |
| 12 | Other things being equal it appears that those remanded in custody are more likely to plead guilty , substantially less likely to be acquitted and very much more likely to receive a custodial sentence on conviction than their counterparts who are remanded on bail ( see , eg , Bottomley , 1970 ; Davies , 1971 ; and also Home Office , 1990f , Tables 9.6 and 9.9 ) . |
| 13 | Since the social class assessment is based on husband 's occupation , it may also be that the ‘ deviants ’ are more ‘ working class ’ or ‘ middle class ’ on several important dimensions than their class-categorization itself indicates . |
| 14 | A year or two younger than her brother she had refused every match offered her , maintaining instead a state of determined independence . |
| 15 | If a woman brewed a better beer than her neighbours her house became the favoured one in the locality — the local . |
| 16 | Whether or not post-war social science was more conservative than its predecessors it is difficult to say : the character of social science is strongly influenced by its social , political and economic context . |
| 17 | The circumstances of the battle are less important than its result which discredited the king and restored support for the earl of Lancaster and the advocates of the Ordinances . |
| 18 | The School Magazine , The Stopfordian , soon celebrated its fifth birthday , thereby enduring longer than its predecessor which had lasted only from 1898 to 1902 . |
| 19 | And then that one fell through because they had n't done the repairs on , so they gen us this flat . |
| 20 | In the picture Stuart held , his father was grinning self-consciously in his formal dress , at least a head taller than his wife who hung on his arm , looking up and laughing at her husband . |
| 21 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Politically he was constitutionally blue but emotionally pink , but as his politics required even less observance than his religion there was no real dichotomy in this . |
| 23 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 24 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 25 | ( Wilkie had left the Academy only eight years previously , so his reputation there was still high ) . |
| 26 | Over raters are usually rather immature and may not be able to take criticism so whatever approach you adopt you might well antagonize them . |
| 27 | ‘ I honestly think that pies followed pipemaking , so whatever date you put on a beehive kiln to bake pipes , I think the big pies would follow that . ’ |
| 28 | A third , but much cruder version in the Wisbech Museum , shows the smith working at his bench although what task he is actually performing is not clear ( fig. 14.25 ) . |
| 29 | Although what business it is of yours … ! ’ |
| 30 | Norman Lamont told MPs : ‘ These measures build on the principle that tax relief for charity should focus on what individuals themselves give rather than what charities themselves see . ’ |