Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraph 21 exposes a gap , pointing out that an innocent acquisition followed by a dishonest decision to keep or dispose of the property was in general not larceny and that larceny by finding was committed only where at the time of the finding the finder believed that the owner could be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 2 | Ten minutes and the back of an envelope is seldom enough except for the most gifted . |
| 3 | It follows from this that there has never been , and never could be , an empirical human society of other than miniscule size in which all the individuals were , even approximately , " equal " , other perhaps than in the theological sense of " equal before God " . |
| 4 | I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics . |
| 5 | So although for the majority of cases that a fatal as a result of diphtheria the fact that , due actually to the pharyngitis and the pseudo- membrane obstructing the respiratory passage . |
| 6 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 7 | The model including a recessive major locus gave a better fit than the model including an additive or a dominant locus , but the fit was not significantly better than for the multifactorial model with or without a generational difference . |
| 8 | ‘ We have got to be a lot , lot better than in the Canadian game , but I have no doubt we will be , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 10 | If the preceding birth interval is five ( in some cases even four ) years or longer , the chances of surviving infancy become poorer again , though considerably better than in the case of short spaced infants ( less than two years ) . |
| 11 | Mr Oliver says he will market the rink better than in the past |
| 12 | You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . . |
| 13 | The combination of high unemployment and the unprecedented unwillingness of some at least of the unemployed to accept their fate passively , demonstrated more starkly than before the absence of systematic public provision fur the unemployed . |
| 14 | I t was colder inside than in the open air . |
| 15 | This , and the growing trend in American society to express displeasure more vociferously and outspokenly than in the past , is said to lie at the root of recent player-directed violence ( ibid.:204–5 ) . |
| 16 | The variable linker region is 15 ( Pit-1 ) to 30 amino acids long ( Dpou28 ) , while the POU HD , as defined by Laughton ( 22 ) , is 60 amino acids long except for the inhibitory POU protein I-pou from Drosophila which is unable to bind DNA due to a deletion of amino acids 2 and 3 in the basic N-termins of the POU HD ( 16 ) . |
| 17 | Yet their fate is a lesson for others , none more so than for the Palestinians . |
| 18 | The river Trent has always flooded , and nowhere more so than on the levels between where its own waters and those of the Yorkshire Aire flow out into the Humber . |
| 19 | It would be very suitable for horses , even more so than on the present roads there 's there 's there 's a better grip . |
| 20 | Pious shock and horror was expressed at this frailty in the face of temptation — far more so than at the evidence that men behaved in the same way . |
| 21 | And all in all not a bad place for a romantic tête à tête , nowhere more so than at the Las Palmeras Apartments where , among the seclusion of the palm trees , you can relax in maximum tanning mode with the partner of your dreams . |
| 22 | BRIAN SHAW , the former leading male virtuoso dancer in the Royal Ballet , who has died aged 63 , was a meticulous and suave performer , never more so than as the male partner in the Bluebird pas de deux in Sleeping Beauty . |
| 23 | And you have to be updated periodically , more so than in the past . |
| 24 | Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder . |
| 25 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 26 | The same people , however , demanded a high standard from public works and nowhere more so than in the domain of street lighting . |
| 27 | During their training , emphasis is on the practice of the theory , much more so than in the usual training of teachers . |
| 28 | Throughout the postwar period , Yugoslavia has been short of foreign exchange , and never more so than in the 1980s . |
| 29 | Never more so than in the case of those which are sick and injured , including wild animals . |
| 30 | The two Education Acts of 1986 and 1988 brought about some revolutionary changes in education — nowhere more so than in the role of governing bodies . |