Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right where your twelve comes from . |
| 2 | All the communication was by telephone , and the finding child was instructed to look only where her partner told her to look and to make use of the telephone to discover the exact location of the object . |
| 3 | [ 1979 ] A.C. 440 , Lord Diplock stated the key principle to be that the general rule may be departed from only where its application would ‘ frustrate or render impracticable the administration of justice . ’ |
| 4 | As this was rather uncomfortable , a year later we were allocated a council house , this house was in where our old house had been and my nana 's house was in the neighbouring village of , so luckily in all our moves my brother and I never had to move schools . |
| 5 | Lucy contemplated her future , which seemed to stretch before her in a pattern of bleakness , especially where her social life was concerned . |
| 6 | She really was n't any good at this game of deception — especially where her friend was concerned . |
| 7 | However , direct coercive sanctions require continuous effort , and may in fact be a rather brittle form of social control , so we should not expect dominant groups in different societies to rely wholly and simply on such crude means of retaining their power and privilege , especially where their position has long been entrenched . |
| 8 | Coleridge 's other drug-induced efforts are sheer doggerel by comparison and like many drug addicts he was famous for frequently taking great liberties with the exact truth — especially where his drug habit was involved . |
| 9 | On the official side it was a great help to be able to speak with one voice , especially where our specialized knowledge of equipment and operational needs of the boats were concerned . |
| 10 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 11 | There had been a month or so where her face had been seen almost daily on TV : they had not yet quite forgotten . |
| 12 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 13 | Rust , iron oxide , is weak mechanically although its chemical bonds are strong . |
| 14 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 15 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |
| 16 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 17 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 18 | When it comes to Guinness , can UK prosecutors do better than their American counterparts in putting Boesky 's tipoffs to good use ? |
| 19 | They are confident of doing better than their 6–1 failure against Old Salopians in 1952 . |
| 20 | Even in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Joyce 's semi-autobiographical hero wonders whether he may not love ‘ words better than their associations ’ ( Joyce 1916 and 1973 : 167 ) . |
| 21 | They seemed well in control after 20 minutes , having taken an early lead and looked a class better than their mid-table opponents . |
| 22 | Oldies like ‘ Heaven ’ and ‘ Red Light ’ rattle and hum in grand style , far better than their recorded versions , while their latest single , ‘ Burns My Skin ’ , proves to be a glorious , bloodcurdling emotional release . |
| 23 | Children after the age of 2 are often so keen to prove their own independence and ability that they feel they know much better than their parents and so argue or ignore parents ' normal requests . |
| 24 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 25 | Each smaller work group attempts to perform better than their rival groups in both quality control and in the number of suggestions they offer to improve productivity . |
| 26 | This volume does indeed contain many of Boulestin 's best recipes , but not one single one of the delicious menus in the composition of which he excelled ; and it was a mistake for the editors to suppose that they understood French syntax better than their author . |
| 27 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 28 | The durability of the red metal had been recognized centuries before and copper and brass domestic ware was , as the 16th Century copper smelters were at pains to point out , far better than their brittle cast-iron counterparts . |
| 29 | KMT mavericks ( the so-called " non-mainstream " faction ) contested seats without official party endorsement and generally performed better than their " mainstream " counterparts , attacking alleged corruption within the " mainstream " ranks . |
| 30 | While there are some differences between these various studies , the broad conclusion which emerges is that while in the areas of arts , social sciences , education and business studies mature students perform better than their younger counterparts , in areas such as science , engineering , health related studies and medicine there is some evidence that they are less likely to perform as well . |