Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not , therefore , been able to satisfy ourselves as to the amounts included in respect of these subsidiaries , or the effects , if any , that the proceedings may have upon the consolidated financial statements . ’ |
| 2 | I am astonished that the author did not consult ourselves as to the allegations made prior to publication . |
| 3 | We paid her my first big visit in Brooklyn , she had n't met me except on the phone . |
| 4 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 5 | Since they were provided to enable the binder to collect the various gatherings or sections in the right order before putting the covers round , much more care was exercised with them than with the page numbering . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and their cats will be looked after too — one only hopes Daisy wo n't put in more food for them than for the humans . ’ |
| 7 | When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 8 | The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs . |
| 9 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 10 | Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’ |
| 11 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 12 | Maintenance of the driver and command files for the process is very much the LIFESPAN Manager 's responsibility , and what better way to keep track of them than inside the process to which they refer . |
| 13 | More Welsh homes — 72 per cent — are owned by those who live in them than in the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 14 | Doubtless some protestant paramilitaries — though there have been fewer religious persons among them than in the case of the provisionals — hold to similar religious understandings of the necessity of violence under certain circumstances . |
| 15 | Pain and suffering — what did suffering mean to them except as a path to purity ? ’ |
| 16 | The individuals most concerned on these three occasions do not usually instigate them except in the case of the marriage . |
| 17 | It is the spiritual end for which the Commonwealth exists , and material order is nothing except as a means to it . ’ |
| 18 | Obviously this may tell you more about me than about the works themselves . |
| 19 | His old friend Barfield ruefully suggested that ‘ at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual animus taking stock of his moral faults … |
| 20 | All the same , despite his intelligence and charm , Diderot is perhaps less interesting in himself than as a symptom and influence . |
| 21 | ‘ Probably using a VT detonator to give an air burst over the target , ’ he murmured , more to himself than to the Staff Sergeant . |
| 22 | ACTOR Patrick Swayze has slashed £200,000 off the wooden mansion he built himself because of the US property slump . |
| 23 | Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff . |
| 24 | ‘ Good , ’ said the Count , who was in London himself because of the importance of the venture and the advisability of maintaining direct contact with his operatives . |
| 25 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 26 | This generates a number of economic changes which because of the overlap of social , economic , political and religious systems in rural communities , have extensive social repercussions . |
| 27 | The second main type of lending occurs when libraries borrow from one major centre , which because of the size of its collections can provide an effective service on a large scale . |
| 28 | In order that the Crystal Palace service could be strengthened , to the 15 cars available ( 36–51s , less 47s ) were added three ex-Croydon Corporation cars , Nos. 11 , 21 and 31 , which because of the reversal of numbers of the single truck cars at the 1927 renumbering , they were the newest . |
| 29 | The remaining two B. & C.D.R. carriage bodies , which because of the terms of the Trust Deed we are not permitted to sell , are still at Mr McBriar 's , and a home for these is urgently being sought . |
| 30 | Fine golden hairs , which but for the sunlight on them would have been invisible , shone against the soft brown skin of her thigh . |