Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the reading parent there is now plenty of help . |
| 2 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 3 | No sign of nerves , but Moby was definitely still in that highly excitable stage where everything in life is fun and needs exploring . |
| 4 | The more restricted arena of the Chamber itself was divided into the Presence Chamber , where anyone with access to court might go , and beyond it the Privy Chamber and the most private apartments , to which entree was restricted . |
| 5 | The Latin pauper means a person of modest means rather than someone without food , roof , or clothing ; Ovid defined him as ‘ a man who knows how many sheep he owns ’ . |
| 6 | longer than someone in love . |
| 7 | What I 've got there there are three scenarios , one from each group , so someone from Group A — Who 's in Group B ? |
| 8 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 9 | The corpse/cadaver brasses sport shrouds of a type seen on the skeleton examples , though the presence of flesh allowed the cutter to render a more accurate portrayal of human features — often producing a successfully recognizable human being , albeit one in want of a good meal . |
| 10 | However , nothing can be crueller and more oppressive than one without love . |
| 11 | A Rover-engine Stag may well be a better car than one with Triumph power , but as a hybrid it will never be so valuable . |
| 12 | This is usually alongside a lawyer from the children 's panel , rather than one with experience in criminal cases . |
| 13 | Okay so , income elasticities are less than one for agriculture , whereas they 're greater than one for manufacturing er , much less scope to differentiate in agricultural products , much more scope to differentiate in manufactured goods . |
| 14 | The provisions below apply to cases where a claim other than one for money is made ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) and since unliquidated damages can not be the " whole sum " to which Ord 11 , r 2 ( above ) applies they appear to apply as well where unliquidated damages are claimed . |
| 15 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 16 | No ! ’ , looked more like a presenter in search of a Day-like persona than one in control of the show . |
| 17 | He , more than anybody in sport , personified cool : he boxed with the most consummate self-assurance , drifting around the ring almost somnambulistically , often dispensing with his guard and rapidly discharging clusters of punches . |
| 18 | He was certainly stronger than anyone at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 19 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 20 | The 33-year-old , who has more sacks than anyone in League history , had already announced this would be his last season . |
| 21 | Ask your Redken stylist about the possibility of using TRUST or Vector Plus on large perm rods to give volume and control rather than lots of curl . |
| 22 | Perhaps lack of guilt , rather than lots of wine and foie gras , accounts for most of the difference . |
| 23 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 24 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 25 | It 's easy with these roots — easier than anything except lettuce . |
| 26 | Gabriel would never understand nor Charley offer an explanation except to say , ‘ Better than sex , Gaby , better than anything except creation . |
| 27 | In the Old City men set up small roadside stalls around big red earthenware pots containing jal jeera , a dark , spicy , green liquid which burns the mouth but cools the body : a more primitive yet more effective coolant than anything on offer in the new town . |
| 28 | She wanted to do it more than anything in life . |
| 29 | Does n't it ever strike you as faintly ludicrous — the pursuit of happiness by a species that is less equipped for it than anything in nature ? ’ |
| 30 | If everyone in society outside had opportunities to be in touch with their feelings in work , education and creative living , fewer would end up in prison . |