Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young centre cut inside where Lyn Jones was at his elbow and the open-side flanker galloped 30 yards to score near the posts , Stephens converting . |
| 2 | Apart from Fulk le Réchin , the other counts of Anjou are portrayed ( albeit less colourfully than Geoffrey Grisegonelle ) as pious and valiant defenders of their inheritance . |
| 3 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
| 4 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |
| 6 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 7 | Better than Sarella Vila ! ’ |
| 8 | Nobody is better placed to understand the pain and loneliness of the stand-up comic better than Steve Martin . |
| 9 | Perhaps no one sees this point better than St. Francis . |
| 10 | Better than Alex O'Neal 's offering , but that 's not saying much . |
| 11 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 12 | Perhaps Daaé can sing better than La Carlotta . |
| 13 | Still , better than Patrick Leigh Fermor , endless garbage about local customs , ravishing scenery , enchanting cranky locals . |
| 14 | Dr Smithson told me it was perfect , much better than Herr Speich 's or even poor Mr MacKenzie 's . ’ |
| 15 | But I can think areas er like on Europe , I do n't there 's been anybody who 's been in terms of projecting the issue erm , er better than George Robertson has dode done in terms of the European er issue . |
| 16 | He had read many of the books in the library , and knew exactly where every one was , much better than Mr Crangle . |
| 17 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 18 | Roland Holder , the current Barbados captain , who fared better than Jimmy Adams in the preceding England ‘ A ’ tour , was not even mentioned in dispatches . |
| 19 | Fewer than one in 100 patients wait over a year for treatment 25 times better than Northern Ireland , where the figure is one in five . |
| 20 | No-one gritted or jutted better than Hanif Mohammad . |
| 21 | Johnny Blunt could say ‘ Yes ; no ; door ; window ’ , but he did better than Harold Waterman ( Hans Wasserman ) who knew a complete sentence : ‘ The gardener 's in the garden . ’ |
| 22 | Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Sugar show rather better than Prince Charles , Ben Elton or Mick Jagger . |
| 23 | Few recognised the importance of campaigning on issues relevant to the quotidian experience of women better than Margaret Llewellyn Davies . |
| 24 | Alfonso XIII 's complicity in the dictatorship and undermining of the monarchy 's own constitution tarnished the very principle of monarchy and gave republicanism a tremendous boost , especially once Primo de Rivera 's early popularity had deserted him . |
| 25 | Though Clinton may have clinched most of the Jewish vote with his down-the-line promise to treat Israel more gently than President Bush does , the irony is that , for Jews and gentiles alike , his blatant Big Apple vote-seeking has done nothing to make him look principled or even presidential . |
| 26 | The reasons for this relative success certainly run deeper than Leopold Senghor 's personality . |
| 27 | Whatever his standing with Catholics ( and for a short time it was high ) , he was set on a collision course with the representatives of traditional unionism and with no representative more so than Ian R. K. Paisley . |
| 28 | The leaders , men-at-arms and levies of the lords and knights chafed sorely at this delay , none more so than Will Douglas . |
| 29 | Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical . |
| 30 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |