Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young centre cut inside where Lyn Jones was at his elbow and the open-side flanker galloped 30 yards to score near the posts , Stephens converting . |
| 2 | Apart from Fulk le Réchin , the other counts of Anjou are portrayed ( albeit less colourfully than Geoffrey Grisegonelle ) as pious and valiant defenders of their inheritance . |
| 3 | It is splendid news that Mr Smith is able to renounce socialism and even better that Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and even wee Nigel Griffiths are going to pursue the ugly connections between Tory plutocrats and regulations that block the free market . |
| 4 | Better that Aretha Franklin had not been born than that we should endure a drop more of this acid rain of spittle ! |
| 5 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
| 6 | McLeish noted enviously that Mr Hutton was a vision of elegance in one of this year 's broadly striped blue and white shirts : he had tried one on himself recently , and had been forced reluctantly to the conclusion that he looked like a bouncer for an East End club . |
| 7 | Fabia counteracted any feeling of wretchedness at that last guilty thought by deciding that it really was n't good enough that Vendelin Gajdusek had gone away when he knew full well that someone was travelling especially from England to see him . |
| 8 | Hugh was still there , and it was natural enough that Earl Robert should be called into conference as a matter of courtesy where the law of the land and King Stephen 's writ were concerned . |
| 9 | It is proof enough that Tom Jones is not going to take the easy path that most of his generation would choose . |
| 10 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |
| 12 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 13 | Better than Sarella Vila ! ’ |
| 14 | Nobody is better placed to understand the pain and loneliness of the stand-up comic better than Steve Martin . |
| 15 | Perhaps no one sees this point better than St. Francis . |
| 16 | Better than Alex O'Neal 's offering , but that 's not saying much . |
| 17 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 18 | Perhaps Daaé can sing better than La Carlotta . |
| 19 | Still , better than Patrick Leigh Fermor , endless garbage about local customs , ravishing scenery , enchanting cranky locals . |
| 20 | Dr Smithson told me it was perfect , much better than Herr Speich 's or even poor Mr MacKenzie 's . ’ |
| 21 | But I can think areas er like on Europe , I do n't there 's been anybody who 's been in terms of projecting the issue erm , er better than George Robertson has dode done in terms of the European er issue . |
| 22 | He had read many of the books in the library , and knew exactly where every one was , much better than Mr Crangle . |
| 23 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 24 | Roland Holder , the current Barbados captain , who fared better than Jimmy Adams in the preceding England ‘ A ’ tour , was not even mentioned in dispatches . |
| 25 | Fewer than one in 100 patients wait over a year for treatment 25 times better than Northern Ireland , where the figure is one in five . |
| 26 | No-one gritted or jutted better than Hanif Mohammad . |
| 27 | Johnny Blunt could say ‘ Yes ; no ; door ; window ’ , but he did better than Harold Waterman ( Hans Wasserman ) who knew a complete sentence : ‘ The gardener 's in the garden . ’ |
| 28 | Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Sugar show rather better than Prince Charles , Ben Elton or Mick Jagger . |
| 29 | Few recognised the importance of campaigning on issues relevant to the quotidian experience of women better than Margaret Llewellyn Davies . |
| 30 | Alfonso XIII 's complicity in the dictatorship and undermining of the monarchy 's own constitution tarnished the very principle of monarchy and gave republicanism a tremendous boost , especially once Primo de Rivera 's early popularity had deserted him . |