Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except perhaps for Duff Cooper , who was the closest to the King , they were all against the morganatic proposal . |
| 2 | Because the brutal fact is that big business no longer needs brute force ( except perhaps as Exocet fodder ) . |
| 3 | Even in the early twentieth century , except perhaps in France , now a republic formally at least grounded in a history of revolution , the tradition of a diplomacy conducted by aristocrats was still dominant . |
| 4 | Heterosexuals can marry but there is no such recognised category as ‘ gay marriage ’ ( except perhaps in Denmark ) , so right away we have to tear up the book of rules . |
| 5 | Even in the twelfth century the majority of the population of any country in western Europe , except perhaps in Flanders and north Italy , were clerics , knights or peasants . |
| 6 | Certainly Verbivore is characteristic of its cybernetic times in that it is more ‘ user-friendly ’ than much of Brooke-Rose 's previous work . |
| 7 | The remote island of Pantelleria , off the coast of Sicily and more than halfway to Tunisia , produces a superb dessert wine . |
| 8 | It was well known — except apparently to Bromley , Brown and Davenport , who looked hopelessly puzzled — that Rozanov had survived his ordeal in a psikhushka partly by developing shamanistic powers . |
| 9 | Broader than all over Europe . |
| 10 | The same section of the population remarked in November ‘ that the Führer had spoken more than normally about God ’ , that ‘ apparently even among the old Nazis there 's nothing more doing without God ’ , which accorded badly , however , with the way the Party was treating the Church . |
| 11 | ‘ The wind of change ’ , that phrase coined by Harold Macmillan in 1960 , grew to have amore general application than just to Africa , or just to politics . |
| 12 | The chief minister , 70-year-old Krishnan Nayanar , claims that because people are literate , Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India . |
| 13 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 14 | Reasons of this sort dictate that the political impetus accompanying Ministers on arrival at their departments after an election is usually a good deal less noticeable at the Home Office than elsewhere in Whitehall . |
| 15 | Here , more than elsewhere in Soho , the atmosphere was tough and testing , with rudeness and wit the norm . |
| 16 | UK television advertising is also regarded as more sophisticated and predictable than elsewhere in Europe , making it an appealing source of revenue . |
| 17 | Although the furore about asylum has been more recent in Great Britain than elsewhere in Europe , it has on occasion been as fierce , particularly as orchestrated by parts of the right-wing tabloid press . |
| 18 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Muscovy 's social élites did suffer from weaknesses which made them much less independent and their property much less secure than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 20 | Ms Harman said the gap between men and women 's wages is wider in Britain than elsewhere in Europe because of the lack of a minimum wage . |
| 21 | The whole cathedral shows a greater French influence than elsewhere in Belgium . |
| 22 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 23 | Are we right to fight for responses to be channelled through National offices , rather than directly to Waterloo . |
| 24 | What was formerly the West Street Cotton Company 's factory — now the Templeton Carpets factory — is a piece of Victorian eccentricity in industrial building almost without rival , except possibly for Marshall 's Mill in Leeds ( q.v . ) . |
| 25 | On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year ! |
| 26 | He thought more than once of Antwerp as a possible bolt-hole . |
| 27 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 28 | That was why , Claudia saw suddenly , Fleur had clung more than ever to Dana after their father 's death . |
| 29 | She suspected that life must be harder than ever for Sarah , left on her own with a small son to bring up and a houseful of strangers to cater for , and she made a resolution to visit Sarah more often . |
| 30 | Sara went about her business , more troubled than ever about Jenny 's imminent arrival . |