Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever an estate agent 's political leanings , professionally each and every one must be expressing surprise , delight and relief , ’ said Sir Glen Hickman , marketing director of Humberts . |
| 2 | It soundslike a fast , powerful car , and many would rather that than silence . |
| 3 | ‘ Mind you , I 'd rather that than one production of Mozart 's Don Giovanni which I 'd really prefer to forget ! |
| 4 | These can be a useful standby , though they 're rather few and far between across the country . |
| 5 | In a speech last night in Birmingham , he noted that , in the end , ‘ dissenting voices were remarkably few and remarkably quiet … |
| 6 | They often have people in doing talks , so later on this or early next month I 'll be able to get a couple of hours talks . |
| 7 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 8 | There are photographs of him taken on this and other trips : Eliot smiling sleepily at the camera , wearing a white cap and sunglasses , smoking a cigar and wearing a pink shirt and blue pullover . |
| 9 | In their last wage packets , Harvard did not pay the £2,000 or so each that they were expecting . |
| 10 | Better that than discretion and gentle kindliness . |
| 11 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |
| 12 | ‘ Better that than not , ’ said the thin man . |
| 13 | ‘ Better that than being used , ’ sneered Derek . |
| 14 | The shutters ' anchor points had to be welded to the hull and , especially at the stern where the windows wrapped round Wavebreaker 's counter , the bolts looked intrusive and ugly , but better that than to be a good-looking boat fifty fathoms down and still sinking . |
| 15 | ‘ Better that than a coffin , ’ he whispered , adding as he leaned in to retrieve his fiddle : ‘ And if my coffin is half as comfortable ‘ t is a smooth journey I 'll be having to Paradise . ’ |
| 16 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 17 | ‘ Better that than you should practise all your sweet deceits on me . ’ |
| 18 | To admit to being innocent of guile somehow smacked of being undesirable , immature , but far better that than be thought an actress . |
| 19 | Better that than this — emptiness . |
| 20 | Better that than spending a miserable lifetime in the Windsor soup … |
| 21 | Better that than going the way of Aldershot . ’ |
| 22 | Better that than buying summat for |
| 23 | No , I know , but we better that and then we specify they 're our modules . |
| 24 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 25 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 26 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's so little that we re-make everything to her size . |
| 28 | It has mass , but so little that the nucleus has some 99.99 per cent of the weight of an atom . |
| 29 | The other children , my playmates , meant little to me ; so little that one day they all rose from the field and vanished , like angels . |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe if you love someone so little that it does n't hurt then it 's not love . |