Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales did find the net in the 32nd minute through Malcolm Allen , but it counted for nothing because Dean Saunders had fouled Hans van Breukelen . |
| 2 | But a summer of mistakes and ebbing confidence means that loyalty will count for nothing when Poland arrive at Wembley next Wednesday . |
| 3 | John Major has convinced the Scots that he cares far more about them than Mrs Thatcher did , but the real test in Scotland may be about to start , writes Toby Helm |
| 4 | No one hunted man-eating tigers more assiduously and successfully or knew more about them than Corbett . |
| 5 | The high drama of casting out devils would establish Timothy Gedge as a monster , which would be nice for everyone because monsters were a species on their own . |
| 6 | It is little wonder then that social research is equated with ‘ clap trap ’ in police magazines , for they aim to support the beliefs of those who have taken on this unconscious cosmology , and for whom as Bourdieu ( ibid. ) indicates , such challenges would defy ‘ the most natural manifestations of submission to the established order [ and abolish ] lateral possibilities ’ . |
| 7 | What this person meant was that they were more about me than Spain or Copenhagen . |
| 8 | What this person meant was that they were more about me than Spain or Copenhagen . |
| 9 | He knows or can guess , just as much about me as Mahoney , and yet I 'm not frightened . |
| 10 | She was the headmistress of a school in Bolton and read about me when Alec Donaldson wrote an article in the Yorkshire Post , which was the first time my name was brought to the attention of the public . |
| 11 | A sigh shivered through them as Léonie and Thérèse joined them and knelt down . |
| 12 | Yet Appendix II ( section 3 ) shows that many people feel that bank loans would be cheaper for them than HP or finance company loans , and better with the manager ‘ a real person ’ they could go to if there was some difficulty over repayments . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be so much healthier for them than city streets . ’ |
| 14 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 15 | Having identified staff with dependent relatives and small children , devise methods which will enable them to invite other nurses to substitute for them when crises arise . |
| 16 | It must be horrible for them when cars crash outside their homes . |
| 17 | For them as clergymen the obvious solution was to take on other duties to supplement the £10 , but administratively it was clearly better that they should be paid , adequately , for their work without being forced to divert their energies in other directions . |
| 18 | Dada , small and unapproachable in the breakfast silence , gave his absolute attention to the kedgeree that he was pushing tidily under his great moustache — little did they suspect the surprise in store for them as Nicandra advanced , speechless , down the length of the white-clothed table , solemn in her pinafore , carrying her now quivering treasure . |
| 19 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 20 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 21 | it would follow from these findings that the children currently being referred to clinics for anti-social behaviour are the group for whom successful intervention is the more urgently needed , to prevent personal misery for them as adults , for their spouses and children , and for the persons whom they will rob or swindle . |
| 22 | Indeed when times get bad things are often better for them as people turn back to the old faiths . |
| 23 | For example , most farmers are self-employed , many farmers now work part-time in other occupations but may still be classified as self-employed farmers , farmers ' wives often work for them as partners , professional people may often work from home preferring a rural to an urban base , and large estates still employ a number of private domestic staff . |
| 24 | Father Firmin is just as real a person for them as Charlie , though I 'm glad to say they like Charlie more . |
| 25 | At the same time many working people have had their belts tightened for them as factories closed and unions accepted cutbacks . |
| 26 | People may not remember whatever detailed analysis was developed for them as schoolchildren , but certain models or ‘ general sketches ’ … do remain , and they inform everyday thinking closely , especially as they are exercised over and again by politicians and the media seeking to make public sense of current events . |
| 27 | The news agency Interfax reported on July 5 that at a joint meeting the two opposition movements , Birlik and Erk , had decided on joint action , acknowledging that the differences in approach between them since Erk 's split from Birlik in late 1989 had played into the hands of the government . |
| 28 | If the fight goes the distance , there might hardly be the thickness of a stamp between them unless Chris ups his recent workrate . |
| 29 | Thailand and Malaysia already make more colour televisions between them than Japan does . |
| 30 | They looked at each other , then returning their gaze to the far distance there was a silence between them before Mick went on again , ‘ As I see it now , real education is what you get from life : not what life gives you , but what you give to it . |