Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the reputation of a Dutch Bonn , a provincial place of exile for civil servants , where nothing more exciting than Dutch politics ever happens . |
| 2 | A keen sportsman , he was one of the mainstays of St. Martin 's Cricket Club in the Salisbury and District League where his really fast bowling was feared by opponents . |
| 3 | Just as cockfighting allows a world where women are rendered invisible , so Geertz 's writing creates a text where his actually present wife is ignored as a non-person . |
| 4 | One of 11 children , he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues . |
| 5 | White Stilton is a very young , immature Stilton and does not compare to the traditional blue variety , although I like it in salads and for cooking , where its slightly sharp flavour is penetrating . |
| 6 | This provides the reason why it was once extensively cultivated in the Aube , where its more southerly location and lack of limestone subsoil sometimes renders wines lacking the desirably high degree of acidity required for classic Champagnes . |
| 7 | Laugh she did , at any rate , and those convulsive movements succeeded where her more calculated efforts had failed . |
| 8 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 9 | For centuries , most religious traditions have debased sex — seeing it as dirty and sinful , or purely for procreation — and have advocated celibacy as a path towards God . |
| 10 | Did n't know why Summerchild should have gone to the Admiralty on the morning of June 24th , but his work was related to conditions of employment in the Civil Service and involved liaison with other departments , so nothing particularly surprising about it … |
| 11 | He did not loiter to catch her although his apparently wayward path could seem designed to cross hers every now and then . |
| 12 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |
| 13 | When his physical charms began to fade ( although his innately aristocratic manners remained unimpaired ) Henreid turned to such forgettable swashbuckling epics as The Spanish Main ( 1945 ) , Thief of Damascus ( 1952 ) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1962 ) , as well as a number of television films . |
| 14 | Because I was less a true coward , a calculating coward , than someone so innocent , or so Greek , that he could not see what the war had to do with him . |
| 15 | Prince Yuan was a clever one , there was no doubting it , so perhaps he understood why the T'ang had appointed him to oversee the Project rather than someone more sympathetic . |
| 16 | Someone sensitive and caring might make a better leader or salesperson than someone more competitive . |
| 17 | On any other than his strongly classical face , they would have looked disturbingly effeminate . |
| 18 | Pickerage had gone straight to bed when he got back , and that day , Monday , had been something less than his dottily exuberant self . |
| 19 | Most of the passengers went off to don coats against what appeared to be a cold wind outside , but Filmer climbed down from the door of the dome-car end of the dining car without more protection than his carefully casual shirt and aristocratic tweed jacket . |
| 20 | Kerin , 53 , a trained economist , was reputed to be more flexible than his fiscally conservative predecessor , but he quickly sought to reassure the business sector that there would be no change in Treasury policy , stating that it was important to preserve " all the benefits of the hard decisions " taken over the past few years . |
| 21 | His books The Medieval Stage and The Elizabethan Stage remain classics of literary history , and in their range and period there are few better anthologies of verse than his Early English Lyrics and Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse . |
| 22 | A greater nervous intensity would have been more convincing than his almost icy calm as the brutes try to break into his home — something Al Pacino , Dustin 's near double , might have achieved . |
| 23 | Worse than my most fantastic nightmares ? |
| 24 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 25 | Whenever I see coloured people in Porteneil , buying souvenirs or stopping off for a snack , I hope that they will ask me something so that I can show how polite I am and prove that my reasoning is stronger than my more crass instincts , or training . |
| 26 | As he is an expert on such matters , the hon. Gentleman knows better than I that public prosecutions in Scotland are a matter for the Lord Advocate . |
| 27 | I originally gained the co-operated of the headmaster , who allowed me to come into the school , and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative in fact , far more co-operative than I really high a right to expect . |
| 28 | These in his original draft he had characterised at " Chetniks " , a term often loosely used at the time although its most precise meaning was to refer to the Royalist followers of Gen Mihailovitch . |
| 29 | Joseph Goebbels is the most hated man they have , other than their most beloved leader . |
| 30 | But I understood that many in the battalions — some of Soares 's people apart-soldiered even more poorly than their already mediocre training and leadership might have led an expert onlooker to anticipate . |