Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late . |
| 2 | Khotan sat down heavily on the bench beside Burun , and Rostov realised suddenly that the Kha-Khan 's son was drunk . |
| 3 | One might assume that this would mean necessarily that the C. and A.G. audited all the Health Authorities . |
| 4 | When English merchants moved out into the world beyond Europe , it was natural enough that the Spice Islands became their ultimate objective . |
| 5 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 6 | Thereafter , print quality was as good as any inkjet I 've seen — right up with the BJ-200 and slightly better than the DeskJet 500 . |
| 7 | His brilliant shot-making erased the Hope Classic record by four strokes and his total was also four shots better than the US Tour record for bettering par . |
| 8 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 9 | But the province fared better than the UK as a whole where building society mortgage lending fell by 20pc in 1992 . |
| 10 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 11 | Italy could also perform better than the EC average of 3% as could Spain — with the admitted advantage of starting from a smaller base . |
| 12 | Phil said : ‘ Recent monitoring shows that a further gradual improvement is taking place , with the level for 1990 recorded at 0.2 ppm — substantially better than the EC standard of 0.3 . |
| 13 | Did I really think I knew better than the FO , full of clever people who were experts on British foreign policy ? |
| 14 | But being steeped , like them , in the philosophy that if one did a job at all one might as well do it splendidly — or at least a good deal better than the Braithwaites — he had built a very decent stone school with a walled yard and a tiny house attached for the use of the teacher , where anyone who paid him rent for his mill-cottages or any of his other employees who resided elsewhere might send their children — to suit the convenience of the teacher — free of charge . |
| 15 | Indeed , this variation in size very closely matches their performance : those larger than average tend to do better than the GCD , and those smaller tend to do worse . |
| 16 | And this is why takes to get all this down and get get a location better than the Carlton for the , I mean , alright , we are n't gon na be able to do the three or four hundred , but then we |
| 17 | Dad , I like the cheese better than the Marmite . |
| 18 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 19 | But even other relatively poor , developing countries fare better than the PRC . |
| 20 | For desserts and digestifs where better than the Christ Church Picture Gallery , Canterbury Gate & Oriel Square where a selection of the College 's renowned collection of Old Master drawings will be on view . |
| 21 | Chapman hopes Leeds do better than the Arsenal team he played for in his last European appearance 10 years ago . |
| 22 | The Vauxhall 's ventilation system offers a plentiful supply of air — better than the Corrado 's — provided the fan is switched on . |
| 23 | The most important is the culture clause which lays down that the EC shall : |
| 24 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 25 | In October 1990 the WEU had come out strongly against a proposal by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers that the EC 's Treaty of Rome should be amended to incorporate Article 5 of the Brussels Treaty establishing the WEU , so that the EC should effectively control the WEU . |
| 26 | February 1945 , and Stalin then agreed to allow free elections in Poland so that the London Poles would have a chance to form a new Polish government , but that agreement was never implemented . |
| 27 | Its frank , American sexiness became , itself , a world-wide fashion , emulated in London , Paris , Tokyo — and filtering through society rapidly , so that the Weber look was not only in evidence in Bond Street or Knightsbridge but at supermarket checkouts and filling stations . |
| 28 | The portraits were hung outside the hospital on all feast days so that the Milanese could admire their benefactors and those portrayed could bask in the glory of it all . |
| 29 | So that the Hendon ‘ nobs ’ can get the ‘ cushy ’ jobs . |
| 30 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that he will do all in his power to ensure that the Government are returned so that the Dover ferry industry can continue to benefit from high levels of exports ? |