Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better to marry too much than not at all , ’ she said cryptically . |
| 2 | Better than not at all . ’ |
| 3 | This is a Chinese story , Maggie , and in China they used to understand dragons better than here in Europe . |
| 4 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
| 5 | Lehmann noted that Minton was ‘ at his happiest and most intimate — and less hysteria underneath it all than often of late ’ . |
| 6 | Nothing moved inside except out of the corner of my eye I was sure that I saw Boris winking . |
| 7 | And never more so than recently in Switzerland on holiday with Jack , and friends Julia and Gerry . |
| 8 | Tritsis was less than halfway through his mandate when he was felled by a stroke at the end of last month . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if you exercise less than twice per week , you are unlikely to make any noticeable fitness gains . |
| 10 | There was more difficulty over the high tax charge and ACT relief and the interim dividend stays at 3.25p covered less than twice by almost halved earnings .. |
| 11 | There was more difficulty over the high tax charge and ACT relief and the interim dividend stays at 3.25p covered less than twice by almost halved earnings .. |
| 12 | At the Cabinet level there were embarrassing signs of the Prime Minister being less than fully in control of events . |
| 13 | Can you just come back a little further and then they 'll be able to see , better if all round the side |
| 14 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 15 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 16 | If voluntary organisations expand , especially if largely in receipt of public money , they tend to take on all the disadvantages of size and age — bureaucratisation or ‘ creeping formalisation ’ , as he calls it . |
| 17 | There will be a widespread welcome for the Secretary of State 's announcement about sewerage , if only because up to now , if I remember rightly , the water charge has not been included in the rebate scheme . |
| 18 | Yeah , well as I say , sometimes I go along while in between but I I think it 's more or less when when I 've been aggravated a bit , you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | Eddie Gormley rifling the ball home ; the game all but over for United . |
| 20 | Manager Ian Porterfield indicated Beasant 's Stamford Bridge career is all but over after his dreadful errors gifted victory to Norwich on Saturday . |
| 21 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 22 | I 'm all but out of it . |
| 23 | Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance . |
| 24 | Well you see especially as well with the typewrite we 've got at the moment |
| 25 | seven ninety nine I do n't know how much the waistcoats have gone down to but they most probably gone down as well to about ten pounds the waistcoats . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , I should advise him to tread gently as yet in the march . |
| 27 | Presumably this act was meant to signify the unleashing of chaos , except that instead of being summarily tossed to the ground , the bookcase was lowered as gently as delicately as if it were a fragile ceramic from antiquity . |
| 28 | Obviously as well in Metternich 's er er , in Metternich 's case nationalism would be the end of the Austrian empire . |
| 29 | Reminders that you can call in as well on six four one six four one on the York exchange if you 've a point you 'd like to make . |
| 30 | Yes and erm Thornleys used to be next to it , and it , to see him patting the butter you know and with all the fancy things in the window they would be doing it and er everything was parcelled up then , into brown paper and strong brown , sometimes there would be a bag of sweets pushed in as well for the children . |