Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So although in a sense one 's moral judgements indicate simply one 's personal emotional response to a situation , in making one 's response stable by further enquiry into the details of a situation , and by further reflection , one is not only stabilising one 's own feelings but moving towards the way of feeling about the situation on which men in general would converge . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Oliver says he will market the rink better than in the past |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Yet their fate is a lesson for others , none more so than for the Palestinians . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Prince and Princess had both been on particularly good form throughout that Gulf tour , and were reduced to giggles on several occasions , none more so than during a desert picnic . |
| 15 | Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder . |
| 16 | Never more so than in the case of those which are sick and injured , including wild animals . |
| 17 | As always with Mussorgsky , and never more so than in the case of this opera , the issues are complicated ; and though most of the work 's admirer 's would now agree that Shostakovich 's orchestration is closer to the spirit of a composer he deeply admired than that of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose admiration led him to wish to ‘ sell ’ the work in the West , there are reservations to be made . |
| 18 | This is clearly very much open to the critique based upon renegotiation-proofness , even more so than in the case without uncertainty . |
| 19 | For unlike serf insurrection , slave rebellion was relatively uncommon — nowhere more so than in the United States — and never in the nineteenth century considered a very serious political threat . |
| 20 | The acoustics of the hall seem admirably suited to this music ; textures are warm , yet detail is clear , more so than in the Järvi Chandos series , and the sound overall is fuller and obviously more modern than that of the Kertész/Decca set , where the symphonies ( CD 430 046–2DC6 , 4/92 ) are not available separately . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In a comparison carried out by the National Economic Development Council and the Manpower Services Commission ( 1984:85 ) it was said that the concern for a sound basic education is voiced strongly in all the three countries [ USA , Japan and the then Federal Republic of Germany ] as it is in the UK , but nowhere more so than in the US . |
| 23 | And you have to be updated periodically , more so than in the past . |
| 24 | In no field of human endeavour was this more so than in the advancement of knowledge , in ‘ science ’ . |
| 25 | Nowhere more so than in the rape scene itself , which , in marked contrast to the humiliation of Lipstick , makes the men the object of spectacle , focusing on their behaviour , not Sarah 's suffering . |
| 26 | We are in a decade when the timeless truth of John Wesley 's words is apparent , and nowhere more so than in the realm of church planting . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track . |
| 29 | Satan did walk Scotland and no more so than in the chambers and corridors of Edinburgh Castle . |
| 30 | The same people , however , demanded a high standard from public works and nowhere more so than in the domain of street lighting . |