Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In New Zealand , it formerly applied only where husband and wife lived in the same residence at the time of the rape . |
| 2 | The increase was not uniformly distributed over the whole country ; the population grew most rapidly in the North and West , especially where coal and iron were to be found , and supplied a convenient labour force for the manufacturing industries . |
| 3 | Whilst a detailed discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of such classifications is beyond the scope of this book , their widespread use shows that : * they give a generally reliable picture of the relationship between occupation and income ; * they do indicate differences in purchase and consumption patterns , although the total disposable income as between any two categories may be similar ( especially where husband and wife are both working ) ; * those categories are stable and enduring . |
| 4 | Introduce all the fish into the tank in one go , especially where sub-adult or fully-grown specimens are concerned . |
| 5 | Unix is , and will be , indispensable in meeting these kinds of scalable requirements , especially where databases and transaction processing systems are concerned . |
| 6 | The bank had ‘ provided earlier and more prudently than others and slimmed down quicker ’ , Mr Thomas added . |
| 7 | Similarly for example 3 , the words people and arc are less likely to occur together than people and are . |
| 8 | He became the fourth of the afternoon to be caught behind off one which left him , this time off Watson , who did the stock-bowler 's job much better than Pringle and in Christchurch . |
| 9 | Some forms of intellectual property rights fare better than others when it comes to their subsistence and enforcement in other countries . |
| 10 | Many people see one particular colour far better than others and , if this is so in your case , this is the colour to paint your pod . |
| 11 | It is not quite a handicap system either but the point is that some sufferers can , for instance , swim better than others and may therefore go up a classification . |
| 12 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 13 | Ironically , better than actors and playwrights , they understand Johnson 's words , written at the conclusion of a prologue to a play by Garrick at Drury Lane : The stage but echoes back the public voice/The drama 's laws the drama 's patrons give/For we that live to please must please to live . |
| 14 | An increase in output current from the popular DAC 08 D-to-A converter is obtainable by means of this circuit , the current accuracy being better than 1% and offset current less than 0.1% . |
| 15 | Daylight and ordinary tungsten light do not mix together very well photographically ; on the other hand , fluorescent light is often used in kitchens and this mixes with daylight better than tungsten if ‘ daylight ’ tubes are in use , in which case set the camcorder white balance to the ‘ daylight ’ preset if you have the choice . |
| 16 | Æthelred can be known little better than Cnut or most other early medieval kings . |
| 17 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 18 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |
| 19 | But even that was inferior to Eisenhower , Kennedy and Johnson and hardly better than Nixon and Carter at the comparable stage in their presidencies . |
| 20 | I I like cats better than dogs because |
| 21 | In any one round , the strategy D is unbeatable ( being better than C whether the opponent chooses C or D ) . |
| 22 | If we assume that bleomycin cuts best in regions of alternating purine and pyrimidine by virtue of their structure , then this explains why GpT and GpC are cut better than GpA and GpG , and also explains why a 5'-pyrimidine increases the rate of cleavage at these sites . |
| 23 | As it happens , he paces himself much better than Corbett and other stand-up comics , and in his own sober way milks the material ruthlessly . |
| 24 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |
| 25 | Encouraged by the vision thus conjured up , Nutty watched the opposition with narrowed eyes , and was pleased to see that , yes , Colin Constable , for all his smart appearance , was certainly not up to Nails 's standard and not even up to Jazz 's , although better than Hoomey and herself . |
| 26 | That is at least better than Nigeria or Turkey where despite much fanfare and expensive feasibility studies , nothing at all has happened . |
| 27 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 28 | ‘ People may think there 's something sardonic about Leeds United fans walking round with words like ‘ peace ’ and ‘ love ’ on their backs , ’ says T-shirt designer Moose , ‘ It might not solve football 's hooligan problem , but at least they look a lot better than wax-coats and ski-hats . |
| 29 | The country had the highest sulphur dioxide emission per head of population in Europe [ see p. 36792 ] and according to the Financial Times of Feb. 21 , 1990 , one power station burning brown coal in Cottbus produced more pollution annually than Norway and Denmark together . |
| 30 | Among the professions , recognition and autonomy will be ranked more highly than power or relationships . |