Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , using wa rather than something closer to English however ( third sentence in the English text ) , reads smoothly in Arabic but sacrifices some of the precision of the English conjunction . |
| 2 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 3 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 4 | Seb was somewhat less effusive in his acclaim , yet he was far more relieved than anyone else at Nahum 's success . |
| 5 | Gerry Healy made more ex-Trotskyists than anyone else except Stalin . |
| 6 | Beck was 33rd in driving accuracy but 147th in hitting greens , a starting pair of numbers from a pro who is reputed to hit the irons more solidly than anyone else on Tour . |
| 7 | For he is convinced he knows his way around better than anyone else on earth . |
| 8 | Naturally , the Ceauşescu clan had to possess more consumer goods than anyone else in order to assert their authority . |
| 9 | He 's stronger , and cleverer , and more complicated than anyone else in London . |
| 10 | Gehlen knew more about Russian intelligence than anyone else in Germany and on several occasions had outwitted Russian intelligence completely . |
| 11 | You would never guess it , she is so modest , but she knows more than anyone else in England on how the eighteenth century reader regarded Scandinavia … . |
| 12 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 13 | It also put the man who has won more money than anyone else in golf within reach of the $8 million mark . |
| 14 | Simon Carmody probably mentions the word ‘ vibe ’ more than anyone else in Dublin . |
| 15 | Most of the reviews admitted slight disappointment before bowing to the fact that a flawed Smiths album was still better than anything else on offer . |
| 16 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 17 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 18 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 19 | Americans had more nature than anything else except money , and they got pretty excited about that too . |
| 20 | The thought that this was something that would be more useful than anything else in Ireland formed itself treacherously and slimily in Fenella 's mind . |
| 21 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |
| 22 | The main explanation for all this is a money supply growing faster than anything else in Korea . |
| 23 | If somebody else in Europe wants it , it will sign up to it . |
| 24 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 25 | Hannah knows her , of course , but she is as tight-lipped about names and places as everyone else in Cotherstone . |
| 26 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's agreement with Eo Inc on the marketing and perhaps later the manufacturing of its Eo 440 and 880 handheld communicators in Europe ( CI No 2,124 ) involves the Italian taking the same stake as everyone else in Eo — the entry fee is $10m , with which it gets a seat on the firm 's board . |
| 27 | Yet it is a useful general principle in science that distinct and unrelated phenomena exist ; not everything is the same as everything else in physics or in other areas of human endeavour . |
| 28 | Erm it 'll it 'll be enquiries which are of very general interest , Mm erm which I should think you 're just as much of an expert as anybody else at answering . |
| 29 | You have to be able to hold your heads as high as anybody else in Dublin . |
| 30 | Garage is as cheap as anybody here for fags . |