Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where you off to and we 'll give you a lift ? ’ |
| 2 | For instance , using wa rather than something closer to English however ( third sentence in the English text ) , reads smoothly in Arabic but sacrifices some of the precision of the English conjunction . |
| 3 | It is more likely that a letter to ‘ Anna Payne ’ will get a response than one simply to ‘ the personnel manager ’ . |
| 4 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 5 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 6 | There is no substance in the assumption that because people are mentally handicapped they are less likely than anyone else to be happy . |
| 7 | The Leeming airfield can get busy at times , so anything up to a dozen Tornados a day can visit us for refuelling . |
| 8 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 9 | He should never be regarded as someone only to be approached when a prescription is required or when some serious breakdown in health occurs . |
| 10 | It 's the same size as yours up to the wardrobe and up to the door . |
| 11 | This subject needs a great deal of careful study and thought but , with this outline , let us move on to look at the experience a bereaved person might have of the church when someone close to them has died . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's important when someone close to you gets cancer that you have as much help around you as possible . |
| 13 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 14 | when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar |
| 15 | We also learnt quite a lot as to how we should do it next time , so when we now to it for senior managers erm come April May time er and hopefully that er training will be improved on the benefit going through . |
| 16 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 17 | The school is the type that has not adapted itself to alternative , non-academic needs and which , in general , is not sensitive to the fact that pupils are people with as much right as anyone else to be respected . |
| 18 | In addition education is as subject as anything else to changes in intellectual or political fashion . |