Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , our future competitiveness and prosperity depend more than ever before on technology and industry . |
| 2 | Filling in more detail on the Environment Protection Bill for the coming session of Parliament , Mr Patten said the public would be given more access than ever before to information about industrial pollution and about how individual firms would be obliged to clean up their operations . |
| 3 | The large , cheerful village of As Cain is an excellent first taste of this lushly rural hinterland and , although still almost at sea level , a possible place to stay , because it has good hotels set where village hotels ought to be , in the main square . |
| 4 | My noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , at pp. 121–122 , also referred to the minister 's speech , although possibly only by way of support for a conclusion he had reached on other grounds . |
| 5 | The monkeys , although as close to observation as a personal interpretation would allow , are not fallible primates but symbols of the idealism of youth , full of aspirations , possessing the freedom to act upon ambition — freedom from responsibility and captivity . |
| 6 | Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches . |
| 7 | As a trained biologist and a conservationist ( ‘ since I was nine ’ ) , it was not surprising that he was interested in the Selva Sur which boasts more plants and species than anywhere else on earth . |
| 8 | One branch runs north-westwards up into the Indonesian archipelago , where volcanoes have killed more people than anywhere else on earth , and peters out before reaching the Asian mainland . |
| 9 | There must be a greater concentration of shops and banks than anywhere else on earth ! |
| 10 | Romance and elegance are the hallmarks of this sophisticated city which has been home to more great composers and inspired more great music than anywhere else on earth . |
| 11 | In 1929 the work of a cub reporter on a small town daily newspaper occupied his time from early morning until often late at night , seven days a week — in other words whenever something newsworthy was happening it had to be covered , and there were no limits to the time spent or the hours required to adequately cover any given assignment . |
| 12 | He was a keen cyclist on the high bicycle until quite late in life and he was always an enthusiastic and knowledgeable gardener . |
| 13 | Must be docked if too long at birth . |
| 14 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
| 15 | While no longer under oath to abide by the rules and pray every day for their benefactor , the present tenants no doubt are thankful for their rent and rate-free accommodation , their free central heating and laundry and , though the gentlemen no longer receive a new suit every two years nor the ladies a new frock , they do receive a visit from the wardens and the clerk at Christmas bearing a small monetary gift . |
| 16 | ( iv ) development of separable material systems of signification , devised for cultural significance , as most notably in writing ; |
| 17 | For though writing shares , at a later stage , all the difficulties mentioned — of degrees of familiarity with specific forms , and of the effects of cultural specialization , as most notably in language — it has also , from the beginning , a radically different status , as a technique . |
| 18 | As so often in sociology , this rather alarming-sounding process is really very simple , though difficult to do well . |
| 19 | As so often in finance , the next step is to make things more complicated . |
| 20 | The difficulty , as so often in advertising , is to know when . |
| 21 | Some regard it as so close to bribery it should be banned . |
| 22 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 23 | The odours are the sole attractant for the bees and this can be detected up to 1 km away across water , though perhaps less in forest . |
| 24 | Needlework between whiles , music , cards sometimes , though I do n't love them , one more benevolent round , improving conversations with y dear Mr. B. , a lesson from him when alone either in French or Latin , a new pauper case or two , a visit from the good dean . |
| 25 | Foxton still remains a popular attraction , though obviously chiefly on account of the Locks . |
| 26 | But they want to raise at least as much again for work on related disorders . |
| 27 | Granting that the Beowulf reference , though tantalisingly close to unambiguity , can not be unequivocally accepted as a primary source for Hercule Poirot , the directness of the next reference brooks no denial . |
| 28 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 29 | In our natural history ( as elsewhere later in science ) it turned out best to adapt an existing language ; but the man who did it , Ligneous , in the middle of the eighteenth century , came from Sweden . |
| 30 | The photogenic horns are similar to those of some of the White Park herds , though generally longer in proportion to the animal 's size , and also like those of some of the Spanish and criollo breeds . |