Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [subord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose she 's thinking of Terry , she thought , and squeezed Sarah 's arm , although Believe Me If All had been Joe 's favourite rather than Terry 's . |
| 2 | Come testing time , though , it was a different story altogether as Farr-Jones 's side put on an awesome second-half display in the rain and mud at Newlands . |
| 3 | The abolition of examinations , shortening the length of courses and open criticism of teachers and academic knowledge , among other features of the Cultural Revolution period , led to disruption and chaos rather than Mao 's goal of an egalitarian higher education system . |
| 4 | GEC Marconi , which employs 3,500 people in Simon Burns ' Chelmsford constituency , signs contracts with the Ministry of Defence rather than Swan Hunter . |
| 5 | On June 30 Russian President Boris Yeltsin had made remarks suggesting that negotiations over the disputed islands could make progress only if Japan provided economic aid to Russia . |
| 6 | Henry said almost apologetically , ‘ I think we could do you a bit better than Cranmer . |
| 7 | Paddy would have seen the trail better than I. He often rode ‘ shot-gun ’ on the roof-rack . |
| 8 | We were in the kitchen together when Caroline said I should meet Colin . ’ |
| 9 | If the Germans had not come to short-change the paying public , the play of Duncan Ferguson , in particular , also shaped up to be worth the admission money alone before Scotland fell behind . |
| 10 | The commercialization of peasant agriculture had been fostering such differentiation long before Stolypin threw his weight behind it , yet it had done nothing to temper the ferocity of the peasants ' attack upon the nobility in 1905 . |
| 11 | A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars . |
| 12 | The case , however , moved to trial only after Mr Garcia himself proposed the use of military courts against guerrilla suspects , because of their alleged greater efficiency . |
| 13 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 14 | Just south of it was the Jeanetta Cochrane theatre , where Haynes was working with , amongst others , Charles Marovitz , another exiled American , but , in his case , from New York 's lower east side rather than Louisiana . |
| 15 | It was a little dark after the strong sunlight , but it was cool , and she sank to her seat thankfully as Felipe stayed at the bar . |
| 16 | The command which will stop a LIFESPAN Process is exactly the same as the startup command , except that you use LSSTOP rather than LSSTRT . |
| 17 | In most cases the processing power required is that of an AT type machine with a Hercules or EGA graphics card so until Amstrad come out with the next generation machine this aspect of desktop publishing will have to wait . |
| 18 | Too weak to resist , the young hidalgo lay quite passive , showing emotion only when Pascoe , on discovering a bronze agnus dei on a chain , wrenched it off and flung it overboard . |
| 19 | The bank defended the terms saying they are a 50 p.c. premium over Midland 's price before last month 's bid proposal , 27 p.c. above net asset value and will give an income 442 p.c. better than Midland 's reduced dividend . |
| 20 | The syntax was not perfect , perhaps , but it was a great deal better than Higginbotham 's , and the use of such lengthy phrases as " venture to approach " and " await your response " showed some acquaintance with the useful cliches of the language . |
| 21 | I have n't seen a team in Europe that 's a great deal better than England . |
| 22 | So there was , Grizel Huntley acknowledged , and it would be a great deal better if Penny could manage to think a bit more positively . |
| 23 | ( Industry analysts suggested that prices at this level were likely in the short term only if Libya withdrew supplies in retaliation against Western countries over the current sanctions issue — see p. 38883 — but conceded that the general trend of the market was upwards . ) |
| 24 | With reduced cow numbers ( courtesy of quotas ) and some investment in fencing and sheep handling , I hope we shall be able to cope with our reduced labour force especially as Chrissie is out teaching more and more . |
| 25 | Poor Elsie had died of the whooping cough just after Harry had gone to America , so now there was only Edna at home in the daytime to help her mother . |
| 26 | series as the massive warehouse finally While Howard is being put into the Ambulance the press are hounding |
| 27 | Only the pre-lunch session was possible on the second day , drizzle intensifying to heavy rain which even penetrated the Press-box roof just as Cornhill Insurance were announcing their two-year extension of sponsorship . |
| 28 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
| 29 | Two other traits Charles may have owed to the influence of his father Louis the Pious , though he pursued both a good deal further than Louis . |
| 30 | The Hamadan clan , like the Jafaars , had been involved in a losing struggle against the Syrian cartel ever since Rifat Assad and Monzer al-Kassar had taken over the Bekaa Valley in 1975 with the help of the Syrian Army . |