Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [subord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fronting an object is less marked in Chinese than in English . |
| 2 | Factional hostility was so great in 1921 as to produce full-scale conflict between the Irkutsk faction and its opponents ; Russian forces intervened to support the Irkutsk group and hundreds of Koreans were killed or wounded . |
| 3 | Has shorter bill than White Stork ( p. 43 ) , and shows no black at all when at rest . |
| 4 | The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring . |
| 5 | got the nine oh who said they were less worried about dying than about sex after death ? |
| 6 | King ( 1990 ) similarly suggests that topicalization , as evident in the use of expressions such as os pros , oson afora , and oso ya ( all of which mean something like ‘ as for ’ or ‘ with regards to ’ ) , is more common in Greek than in English and that Greek learners of English tend to overuse this structure . |