Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [adv prt] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only 400,000 people and lots of bauxite , there is no good reason why Suriname should not be as democratic as and rather better off than most of the little states of the Caribbean . |
| 2 | Her mother , my Grandmother Anne , was a Sayers , and they were the Manor House family in Bowes and rather better off than most . |
| 3 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 4 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 5 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |
| 6 | Turn back through the pages of ancient history books on Venice and as far back as the year 1740 you will find tell of a friendly hostelry providing a refuge to weary travellers on this hotel 's site . |
| 7 | So write that one and then later on when I 've gone if you can make up some sentences with stationary and stationery . |
| 8 | Under the reform plans , children accompanied by an adult would be allowed into ‘ suitable bar premises in certain defined circumstances , for example for a family meal , and then only up until , say , 8pm ’ . |
| 9 | But my Commanding Officer brought up an important issue : the question-raising ambiguity of my relationship to Richard : he had another home and his father was still alive ; it would be better and easier all round if I adopted him . |