Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The er the special problems the complex presents at the moment , are very minimal compared to what er other police officers I 've spoke to who 've worked the flats in the past , have told me about . |
| 2 | Their topics of conversation seemed very limited compared to what we talked about at home . |
| 3 | Pastiche is , like parody , the imitation of a peculiar or unique style , the wearing of a stylistic mask , speech in a dead language : but it is a neutral practice of mimicry , without parody 's ulterior motive , without the satirical impulse , without laughter , without that still latent feeling that there exists something normal compared to which what is being imitated is rather comic . |
| 4 | While BBC2 was gearing up , the ITA was concerned in 1963 — 4 with its first round of re-franchising , very low-key compared with what was to come . |
| 5 | When she did return to her kingdom , what she saw was , inevitably , very small-scale and impoverished compared to what she had known in France . |
| 6 | Only at Tocra has archaeology confirmed a substantial Greek presence in the fifth century , but even here the Persian period is impoverished compared to what went before . |
| 7 | And beside that again , another box full of erm well partly full depended on what time of the week it was . |
| 8 | It is being run by a skeleton staff with minimum facilities , though it will be luxury compared to what Sir Ranulph , 49 , and Dr Stroud , 37 have become used to . |
| 9 | The leadership of the International were in general irritated by what seemed to be the sectarian squabbling of the émigré Poles and Russians , while generally defending the traditional interpretation of Marx 's opinions . |
| 10 | I 'm taking flushes and whatever but I feel brand new compared to what I felt before I had a hysterectomy cos I was totally lifeless ! |
| 11 | And they have to be supervised on the roads — traffic here is mad compared to what they are used to . ’ |