Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | [ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She really was n't any good at this game of deception — especially where her friend was concerned . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 7 | There had been a month or so where her face had been seen almost daily on TV : they had not yet quite forgotten . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dundee United mastered the elements better than their opponents and had in Ferguson , Scott Crabbe and Paddy Connolly lively players who continue to give the impression that Jim McLean is not far off having a team capable of far better than has been seen from his club in recent seasons . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They seemed well in control after 20 minutes , having taken an early lead and looked a class better than their mid-table opponents . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | LUCKLESS St. Helens Town , better than their record of one win in 15 games suggests , had to thank a last-minute goal by nomadic striker Steve Cannon for a deserved point at Darwen in a 1-1 draw last week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her afternoon shoes , slightly better than her morning ones , were ranged neatly beneath them . |
| 19 | In a way , Aunt Alicia knew her father better than her mother ever had . |
| 20 | … the elderly woman adapts herself to her stage better than her husband . |
| 21 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 22 | Bayer fared slightly better than its rivals , turning in a 4 per cent drop in pre-tax profits during the first nine months of the year — from DM 2750m to DM 2640m . |
| 23 | Princey and Dukey , here are mum you 'll probably do it better than me Prince and Duke and pussy cats |
| 24 | As I 'm sure you probably know better than me Miss , the department blows hot and cold |
| 25 | ‘ They 'll be too big , Sergeant , but maybe better than your shoes ? |
| 26 | And in a sense , who knows you better than your ex-wives or lovers ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , you like your art better than your friends , ’ he said to Basil . |
| 28 | ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair . |
| 29 | ‘ None can know better than your lordship the importance of Berwick Castle , ’ Ramsay went on . |
| 30 | Gradually his playing became better than his singing . |