Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv prt] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the worst they were little better off than the best paid sections of the working class and at the best they were able to afford a distinctively different education for their children and adopt a lifestyle which aped their financial betters . |
| 2 | Alter more than 10 years of ‘ debate ’ we seem to be little better off than before — indeed the lack of motivation is , if anything , more acute than ever . |
| 3 | The non-celibate parish clergy were little better off than their peasant flock , but in the early sixteenth century over 25 per cent of all cultivated land was in clerical hands . |
| 4 | The bleak accounts of life in the farming villages suggest that the majority of middle and lower peasants were little better off than hitherto . |
| 5 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 6 | With only 400,000 people and lots of bauxite , there is no good reason why Suriname should not be as democratic as and rather better off than most of the little states of the Caribbean . |
| 7 | They were rather better off than most , I think , and they owned an inn called New Spittal , between Bowes and Brough , over to the west . |
| 8 | Her mother , my Grandmother Anne , was a Sayers , and they were the Manor House family in Bowes and rather better off than most . |
| 9 | As it happens , she was much better off than me because her weekly wage was five shillings . |
| 10 | For instance , if one of your customers is in financial trouble and he owes you money which is due in 20 days , you are much better off than if the debt does not fall due for 100 days . |
| 11 | But taking your point about er , you know you 've got , you 've incurred these expenses anyway , therefore at the end of the day , you 're not that much better off than er |
| 12 | We were much better off than him . |
| 13 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 14 | Under the new-look European farm policy agreed last year farmers are much better off than they thought they would be . |
| 15 | Though this salary was the same as that of a third-class constable , the lowest police rank , village sergeants were much better off because they served in their own localities , were not subject to discipline , and had other income . |
| 16 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |
| 17 | ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’ |
| 18 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 19 | He was very much more out than I was and he knew where the gay scene was , not only in Edinburgh but also in London . |
| 20 | It 's only later on when they 're more experienced that they can actually say , well hang on a minute I can do more for this person and I 'm going to do more for this person . |
| 21 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 22 | So that 's an important point and one which is not in Freud 's book although I 'd like to think it would have been , had he written it much later on when , when group erm therapy had become very fashionable . |
| 23 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 24 | In fact , some people 's remembering of the exact colours and their proportions might be so far out as to scramble the possible building of any picture . |
| 25 | Even drivers of average height will need the seat so far back as to make it impossible to see directly behind . |
| 26 | He was so far under as to be very near coma . |
| 27 | ‘ Other British sports are much worse off than athletics but are they doing as much as we are to put things right ? |
| 28 | In short , said the doomsayers , the Middle East would be much worse off than it had been before the American-led coalition drove Iraq 's army out of Kuwait . |
| 29 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 30 | Ethel 's silent opinion was that Thomas 's strong point lay very much lower down than his brain . |