Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience had taught them that nothing alienated support within their districts more swiftly than bombs which killed or injured Roman Catholics and that nothing reduced the inflow of money from Irish American sympathisers more drastically . |
| 2 | Do you actually do any fucking work ? and especially that McEwan whoever he is |
| 3 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 4 | But of course , better than treatment we have prevention do n't we ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We have several capital projects which will take us into new and exciting areas and if we ride out this recession better than others we will have the opportunity to make further acquisitions to expand our core activities . |
| 7 | Some versions of a text convey better than others what the author originally wrote . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Paddy would have seen the trail better than I. He often rode ‘ shot-gun ’ on the roof-rack . |
| 10 | The designers found that W performed significantly better than P. They write : |
| 11 | Bone and skin and cut the thigh meat ( better than drumsticks which are too sinewy ) into regular-sized chunks . |
| 12 | As a matter of course , nothing had suited Milosevic better than images which had already existed in the past . |
| 13 | Roger was ordered to appoint a suffragan bishop ‘ knowing the language ’ , a hint perhaps that Roger himself ( having been brought up in France ? ) did not . |
| 14 | Learning is then a process of conscious intervention whereby performance initiated by the natural and unconscious process of acquisition is monitored , so that elements which have been learned as formal rules are grafted on to elements which emerge spontaneously from the domain of the unconscious . |
| 15 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 16 | So that afternoon she went to see Colin . |
| 17 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 18 | I just had to have it , so that weekend we stripped out my car and prepared to start again from scratch . |
| 19 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 20 | Could erm could you perhaps tie up between you , David and Jane , erm so that Jane you could go and have a look at it and see what 's actually needed to get that up to date . |
| 21 | In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews , that great chapter which deals with ‘ the nature and fruits of faith ’ as it is headed in the ‘ Thompson Chain Reference ’ bible , the third verse reads as follows - ‘ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God , so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear . ’ |
| 22 | We must fill our minds with the utmost of irrelevant information so that things we look at will remind us of other things and the more distant and more ridiculous the analogy , the higher the chance of the idea being really valuable . |
| 23 | They agreed at a meeting in Edinburgh yesterday to urge the Government to seek changes in legislation so that tenants who have bought their homes with the benefit of a discount are debarred from buying council houses with similar concessions on a second or more occasions . |
| 24 | More than two thousand students use the adult education facilities at the college , which even has it 's own playgroup so that mothers who want to attend classes can bring their babies . |
| 25 | So that night they celebrated , getting roaring drunk , playing cards and gambling . |
| 26 | No envelopes that I had brought were suitable , so that night I made several of them , as I regularly did , strengthening ordinary ones with sticky tape , and making reusable fasteners out of wire from abandoned tyres . |
| 27 | well anyway er , you see and well anyway er so when , that night and we were by coach of course bus , went there by bus and so that night she said to me , what are you doing when , in the bus , she said , what are you doing this evening ? |
| 28 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 29 | The longer the period , the more the influences of your current position are ironed out , so that students who look ( and maybe are ! ) poor currently over their lifetime will generally look , and be , well off ; i.e. cross-section inequality is greater than time-series inequality . |
| 30 | In previous World Cups , two days were allocated to each match so that contests which were not concluded on the first could be decided on the reserve day . |