Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Coincidentally , we are now seeing coming out of Eastern Europe that same broad attitude being adopted , not only by the democratic socialists and social democratic parties which are emerging in the East , but also amongst the reform wings of the old Communist parties led by a new generation who realise the command economy Stalinist game is completely up . |
| 2 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 3 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 4 | Smith said : ‘ I thought Graeme Souness was a bigger man than to come out with that stuff . |
| 5 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 6 | Rather than carry on with such negative action , John and Colin decided to do something more constructive and let the general public know just what their activities involved . |
| 7 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 8 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 9 | As lovers they were not exactly vibrant , but their voices and Lehar 's music more than made up for that . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 11 | One implication of this is that evaluation procedures are usually better developed in-house than bought in from other institutions . |
| 12 | The perennial fascination of Karajan 's 1954 recordings of Mozart 's Così fan tutte and Strauss 's Ariadne auf Naxos lies partly in the exquisitely cast singing and playing , partly in the use Legge and Karajan made of studio conditions to create performances of radical intimacy , the music-making addressed to the microphone and the private listener rather than belted out across some putative theatrical footlights . |
| 13 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 14 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 15 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 16 | But when she 's at home , Sue Lawley loves nothing more than getting down to some old-fashioned housework |
| 17 | It recommends that developing countries seek " advance payments and relatively small royalties rather than holding out for higher royalties that may never materialise " . |
| 18 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 19 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 20 | Dave Southwood took the aircraft for a fifteen minute first flight which was faultless other than running out of nose-down trim . |
| 21 | And although frowned on by some , sugar has its place in small quantities amidst the salt and pepper , particularly if the vinegar is very acid . |
| 22 | Although set up in 1974 in response to outcries about huge increases in domestic rates , it never came near to recommending their abolition or even their substantial replacement with another tax . |
| 23 | That was plainly my bent and that I would do well to follow up this line of art rather than branch out into some other road of work . |
| 24 | It was nothing to him , of course — orders were orders — yet it had occurred to him several times that it would have been far simpler to evacuate the Shepherds than go through with all this nonsense . |
| 25 | With Pamela it was always the same — do n't worry , we do n't need it , the bills are all covered , I can take care of everything — but Josie would rather have packed her bags and moved out than go along with such a line . |
| 26 | It is better to come away with half a dozen good shots which may be sold to clients , than to finish up with six hundred unsaleable frames which will have no further practical use . |
| 27 | What does the , what does the youth bus actually do it , except go round on four wheels , I mean what 's it 's function ? |
| 28 | Its effect is clear-you get what you want , what you think is right , rather than falling in with other people 's views . |
| 29 | He would rather die now than carry on under these circumstances . |
| 30 | What better way to spend an evening or Sunday lunch than sitting down with congenial company and enjoying good food . |