Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [noun prp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should the UK be looking to supplies from the Netherlands or USSR rather than Norway ? |
| 2 | For the full effect of neighbours , go on Saturday or Sunday so as to find the whole array of cars , vans , lorries ‘ motorbikes and children , although if it is a fine weekend some of the boats and caravans may be missing . |
| 3 | Tuesd yeah Tuesday and Thursday then cos we 'll try and fit in with you if you can . |
| 4 | As Professor Verlinden has shown , the negro slave was much in evidence at the end of the Middle Ages in Portugal and Spain long before he was exported to the Americas . |
| 5 | The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of |
| 6 | One workers ' meeting had even suggested that it would be better to shoot Lenin or Trotsky rather than Patriarch Tikhon . |
| 7 | Why might you prefer to have a factory at Exeter or Taunton rather than at Bodmin or Redruth ? |
| 8 | Throughout February and March more than 200 sponsored swims will be taking place across the country in aid of Greenpeace . |
| 9 | Witch Hazels are the harbingers of spring , their narrow strap shaped petals bursting from globular buds in February and March long before the leaves have begun to stir . |
| 10 | At police stations across England and Wales more than two hundred thousand people will be given cautions this year . |
| 11 | In Bolivia , the proportion is 90 per cent ; in Brazil , Ecuador , Panama , Peru and Venezuela it fluctuates between 70 per cent and 80 per cent ; in Guatemala it is 60 per cent ; in Colombia , El Salvador and Mexico 50 per cent ; and in Argentina , Costa Rica , Chile and Uruguay less than 50 per cent ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ France , like Britain , has 3 million unemployed ; in Ireland and Spain more than one in six are out of work . |
| 13 | The region was very proud that Hilda Hyam received one of the special Silver Medal Awards at the 30th reunion , for it was Hilda who brought Medau to Weston-super-Mare and Bridgwater more than 20 years ago . |
| 14 | Kitty had stayed in the woods above Buttermere and Lorton ever since — rarely more than a quarter-mile from the rock on which her suitor had been killed . |
| 15 | An element of this notion survived into the fourteenth century , when the French kings were sometimes prepared to accept Plantagenet homage at Amiens or Boulogne rather than Paris . |
| 16 | In reply the American military cautiously expressed a preference for joint action within existing alliances such as Nato or Seato rather than any new bilateral arrangements . |
| 17 | Certainly , from the beginning there were clear links with extra academic initiatives , especially in publishing : its editor for the whole of this period , R. B. McKerrow , was a partner in the publishing firm of Sidgwick & Jackson rather than an academic . |
| 18 | Built and financed entirely by Canadian millionaire art dealer Elie Borowski , the Bible Lands Museum houses his personal collection of 3,000 ancient artefacts largely covering the neighbouring cultures of Syria , Iran , Mesopotamia , Anatolia and Egypt rather than Israel per se . |
| 19 | In other words , to challenge the Granada and Carlton rather than BMW , Mercedes — or Volvo . |
| 20 | I wan na go out I 'll go out there with Bryn and Eric anyway as soon as we 've finished cos it wants . |
| 21 | Good news is expected from Marks & Spencer today as it tries to compete with Sainsbury as the UK 's most profitable retailer . |
| 22 | It is the assumption that the magic moment that was the beginning of the Devonian was ordained by God or Marx long before Man started his investigations . |
| 23 | Would have saved Yukio and Jesus too if not for bad luck . ’ |
| 24 | On Jan. 30 China said that it would take part in the disarmament process initiated by Bush and Yeltsin only when the USA and Russia had reduced their nuclear arsenal to " a level matching China " . |
| 25 | Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi cancelled a visit to the USA for talks with Bush and Baker shortly before he was supposed to leave Israel on Feb. 12 . |
| 26 | Paintings come from the Paris-oriented group , Les Vingt , which exhibited Van Gogh , Gauguin , Cezanne , Monet and Renoir well before their reputations were established in France , from the dreamy Symbolists and the more forceful Flemish Expressionists . |
| 27 | Old Eddy Moulton , who was awake and in an unusually forthcoming mood , looked at Dyson and Bob alternately as he talked . |
| 28 | His Mr Sebastian of 1955 and the interesting Red Road of 1962 might have been painted in France or Germany rather than London . |
| 29 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 30 | THEY were jostling in the streets of Trinidad and Tobago yesterday as 29,500 tickets for the decisive World Cup qualifier with the United States went on sale at six outlets nationwide — and sold out within two hours . |