Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 2 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 3 | Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale . |
| 4 | Now what has happened here is that on the previous public enquiry over the Tetsworth site , Tetsworth , Great Milton and various other Parish Councils have the defence of producing sites which they think are appropriate or better than their own site , and they mentioned Wheatley . |
| 5 | The result is that you often know your grandchildren better than your own children ! ’ |
| 6 | In the air at around 3,500 feet I found that , provided one held it with the antenna close to horizontal , the ICOM IC-A20 MkII could produce quite accurate VOR indications at distances of well over 25 nm from the VOR — rather better than my own King KX99 does . |
| 7 | Using WinTach to assess the Dell 's Windows performance , it managed a crisp 9.12 — better than my own 33MHz 486 fitted with a pretty fast QVision card , which clocked in at 7.33 . |
| 8 | And yet I know it almost better than my own street . |
| 9 | The house was a neat Victorian villa in a row with lime trees outside ; Hoomey liked the road better than his own ; it was cosier , somehow , with the trees and the privet hedges and its back to the sea . |
| 10 | But Smith 's right ear score is 50 per cent higher than his left ear score , while Jones 's right ear is only one-third better than his own left ear . |
| 11 | Rachel was in trouble deeper than her own ; Rachel needed her help this time . |
| 12 | to show his students the ways by which great art creates its effects , leading them to a finer appreciation and fuller response , and to help them appreciate more fully the authors ' insights , so often deeper than our own [ sic ] , contribute towards our understanding of ourselves , our community , and life itself . |
| 13 | Downstairs in the hall , midnight struck , so that her own clock had been slow and she had seven hours and three minutes before morning and the sound of the milk bottles on the step , of Eleanor 's waking movements . |
| 14 | The terrible boredom of her isolation was relieved by the mental exercise in which she told and re-told herself how , in five minutes exactly , she would eat the spinach as a loving sacrifice to Maman , then sick it up , so that her own martyrdom should be apparent . |
| 15 | Not only long , but busy , filled with drama and tragedy , so that her own problems faded into insignificance . |
| 16 | Not for the normal reasons : that they 're failed creators ( they usually are n't ; they may be failed critics , but that 's another matter ) ; or that they 're by nature carping , jealous and vain ( they usually are n't ; if anything , they might better be accused of over-generosity , of upgrading the second-rate so that their own fine discriminations thereby appear the rarer ) . |
| 17 | Then there was what might be-called " fire-insurance Jacobitism " : in the 1690s a number of leading politicians — amongst them Tories such as Marlborough and Godolphin and Whigs such as Shrewsbury and Edward Russell — thought it wise to maintain some contact with the exiled Stuarts so that their own political security would be guaranteed should there be another Stuart restoration . |
| 18 | His aim is to show what are the taken-for-grated rules of conversation and how we describe the world to one another so that we all make sense of it in similar ways . |
| 19 | If we cheated about not having it back you know , when parents came in June but we do n't need it immediately you know , it does n't have to be photocopied so that we all |
| 20 | At the same time the Service will keep the Countryside Code firmly in front of all who use the hills so that we all develop the ‘ good manners ’ which will assist , rather than hinder , the work of the farmers and other principal users . |
| 21 | Quite rightly , once we have won the battle to raise everyone 's standards so that we all have the same high levels , we can have a single market . |
| 22 | Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ? |
| 23 | Just give both of us time to get our breath , so that we both feel it 's worth it . |
| 24 | It is assumed that all trains are of equal length and are all moving at the same speed , so that they each take p seconds to pass the crossing . |
| 25 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 26 | All three aspects need to be practised so that they all come together to give the right impression . |
| 27 | Another April shower swept over them , a heavy one , so that they all gathered together and took shelter under an old yew . |
| 28 | This format makes it easy to fit the words to the ( edited ) pictures and to cue them to the start of each section so that they all come at the right place when they are being recorded onto the video sound track . |
| 29 | One of the older guys called me a nigger , and he influenced the others so that they all started calling me it . |
| 30 | Erm , I thought mine , when I came back and I briefed everybody so that they all knew what was going on |