Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The chief minister , 70-year-old Krishnan Nayanar , claims that because people are literate , Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Here , more than elsewhere in Soho , the atmosphere was tough and testing , with rudeness and wit the norm . |
| 8 | UK television advertising is also regarded as more sophisticated and predictable than elsewhere in Europe , making it an appealing source of revenue . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The whole cathedral shows a greater French influence than elsewhere in Belgium . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The last surviving cloth mill was Peghouse Mill , nearer to Stroud , although still in Painswick Parish , which finally closed its doors in the early part of this century . |
| 16 | There is also a shopping centre in Upper Norwood , which although partly in Croydon and partly in Lambeth , adjoined the Crystal Palace terminus of the trams . |
| 17 | Nesri qualifies this with " in the beginning of [ Mehmed II " s ] sultanate " but joins Molla Yegan with Molla Husrev ( d. 885/1480–1 ) , Molla Zeyrek ( d. 879/1474–5 ? ) and Hocazade ( d. 893/1488 ) in the sentence so that the possible inference that he died earlier rather than later in Mehmed II's reign is rendered doubtful at best . |
| 18 | This is a Chinese story , Maggie , and in China they used to understand dragons better than here in Europe . |
| 19 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 20 | The former was known , albeit chiefly in Canada , as a novelist of distinction , whose The Two Solitudes won for its author fame and comment throughout the land . |
| 21 | Today there are far fewer music publishers than previously in Britain . |
| 22 | And never more so than recently in Switzerland on holiday with Jack , and friends Julia and Gerry . |
| 23 | Last year real GNP grew by 8.5% , and inflation was only 3.4% , lower than anywhere in Asia except Japan and Malaysia . |
| 24 | Why not fix to have a light lunch here one day if ever in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 26 | erm , nevertheless I must report again on the plan eighty eight er on the A ten eighty eight , principally because even in England people realize that the villages in |
| 27 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 28 | THEN , STAY A WHILE LONGER IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE TO DISCOVER OTHER AMERICAN CONNECTS |
| 29 | While still in South Africa he contested the South Mayo by-election in February 1900 as an anti-war candidate , but lost the seat to the Irish Parliamentary party by 2,401 votes to 427 . |
| 30 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |