Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was no man in the kingdom who knew better than Owen what Hotspur 's disdainful answer had been to the council 's shameful proposal of murder in place of magnanimity . |
| 2 | Mostly , I feel so inadequate that I think almost anyone could do the job better than I. I mean , Karen 's trained and Edna s had a lifetime s experience . |
| 3 | Paddy would have seen the trail better than I. He often rode ‘ shot-gun ’ on the roof-rack . |
| 4 | The designers found that W performed significantly better than P. They write : |
| 5 | Although that 's 445,000 tonnes less than Britain it 's becoming more popular as the EC breaks down borders . |
| 6 | Currently this may seem unacceptable as well as unlikely , but may no longer be so if Israel itself experiences military and economic recession . |
| 7 | The chances are that any LSE owner would have an appropriate button fitted as soon as possible , so if Lowden themselves fitted them , making sure the job was done elegantly , that would keep the guitar original and prevent any screw-ups by those amateur guitar repairers who 've never heard of pilot-holes … |
| 8 | So if Teclis himself is on the battlefield , no other character may be equipped with the Sword of Teclis . |
| 9 | All these demonstrations of rulership had an afterlife long after Charles himself had gone . |
| 10 | A good man , Ephraim Cook , with a good , strait-laced , sensible wife , a man who 'd keep the looms turning and the profits coming in long after John-William himself was in his grave . |
| 11 | He has offended the state with a work called The Ontology of the Human Self and an openly provocative paper ( much as Havel himself did with his Open Letter to President Husak of 1975 ) . |
| 12 | Tragedy remained pre-dramatic , however , so long as Dionysus himself , the hero of the vision , was purely visionary . |
| 13 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Stephen perceived that he had no torch , or that if he had one he was n't bothering to use it , which meant he must know the moor well , as well perhaps as Stephen himself did . |
| 15 | Only when Benazir its strict rules within its walls , so each household also has a well defined ‘ parish ’ where its members are allowed to operate . |
| 16 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , there is a long tradition of general education in higher education there ( which suggests that it is England rather than Scotland which is atypical in this respect ) . |
| 18 | In one photograph , which featured the juxtaposition of two O'Keeffe works , rather than O'Keeffe herself , Stieglitz confirmed what he believed was the meaning of her art . |
| 19 | As Dr Turnbull has pointed out , it is hardly meaningful to talk of a trans-regional network before 1810.42 Significantly it was Birmingham rather than London which was the hub . |
| 20 | Corinth , then , not Sparta , was most nearly affected by the rapprochement between Athens and Megara in 460 and , consistently with this , it was Corinth rather than Sparta who fought Athens hardest in the war which now broke out , the First Peloponnesian War , of 460–446 . |
| 21 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 22 | Oswiu 's son and successor , Ecgfrith , rather than Oswiu himself , is far more likely to have asserted his lordship over the Scots in the wake of his suppression of a Pictish revolt c. 672 . |
| 23 | It is Leavis rather than Lewis who , when he writes of literature , sounds washed in the blood of the Lamb . |
| 24 | The satirical phrase used to embarrass the ‘ Action Men ’ is that they have the ‘ John Wayne syndrome ’ ; the fact it is Wayne rather than Rambo who is used to ridicule them gives a clue that it tends to be the older members of the force who use the term to describe the exuberant younger policemen . |
| 25 | On this issue — it should be noted — it had been Churchill rather than Eden who had been tempted to proceed independently of the United States . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 27 | Take the easy path to the summit from the car park at Newton-under-Roseberry and admire the magnificent panoramic views of coast and countryside , just as Cook himself must have done when he lived at Aireyholme Farm below the summit . |
| 28 | The apostle Peter speaks of the mutual submissiveness of wives and husbands , just as Jesus himself was submissive in his time on earth to death . |
| 29 | He often succeeds in making his playing sound almost improvisatory , just as Poulenc himself did , but unlike the composer on a bad day , Tacchino is also scrupulously accurate . ( ) |
| 30 | Just as Teddy itself was a diminutive of Theodore as in Roosevelt ( or was it Edward , King of England ? ) , so we began to hear of Charles Lindbear and Wilbear Wright the pioneer bearaviators . |