Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Milk was generally carried by passenger trains , but increasingly milk rather than passengers became their raison d'être . |
| 62 | Military plans awry as blocs fall apart . |
| 63 | If you have a spinner in your family , you will keep some sheep ; possibly with fleece rather than carcase quality determining the breed . |
| 64 | ‘ At Boston , for example ( an A to B course rather than an out-and-back course ) in a year when there is a strong following wind , they 're going to set phenomenal times . |
| 65 | The latter question is concerned with a judgement of the aims of the course rather than with the functioning of the course . |
| 66 | The type of household in which the elderly person lives may , in its turn , be a function of the stage he or she has reached in the life course rather than of age per se . |
| 67 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 68 | For many of the physical science students , the term ‘ physical science ’ referred to the specific course rather than to a wider discipline ; I therefore reserve many of their comments for a later section . |
| 69 | Further evidence that Castro was pursuing his own course rather than responding to US actions is given by the testimony of US Ambassador Philip Bonsal , who found his efforts to meet with Castro and to pursue negotiations thwarted . |
| 70 | And it 's preferable to have a golf course rather than agricultural land which might be heavily dosed with chemicals six times a year , which is more than the average course . ’ |
| 71 | The examination , therefore , can now be seen as the culmination of the course rather than viewed as an unwelcome intrusion as it was previously . |
| 72 | They focus on social strata rather than social inequality in general . |
| 73 | Geologists had chiefly looked horizontally where fossils were concerned , using them to date strata rather than following resemblances vertically through time . |
| 74 | ‘ It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest . |
| 75 | Secondly we have already noted that banks are opening more accounts for lower-paid people , alongside the trend towards payment of wages through bank accounts rather than in cash . |
| 76 | In conclusion , budgetary accounting is primarily concerned with the form of the financial accounts rather than their content . |
| 77 | The main publication is the 1985 Standard Classification ( revised in 1988 ) , which is concerned primarily with the form of accounts rather than their content . |
| 78 | IAN HARPER checks out trusts that invest in high interest cash accounts rather than equities |
| 79 | Some of the best verifications thus come from natural flows rather than laboratory experiments . |
| 80 | ‘ Trade union involvement must remain at the heart of the party but it must be based far more on individual choice and decision rather than through the exercise of a block vote , ’ he said . |
| 81 | What is particularly interesting is that the report implies that it was MI5 who endlessly delayed any decision rather than the prison authorities . |
| 82 | There is no reason why a couple should continue to have sex into old age if they decide together that they do not want to , but it is important that they make a decision rather than lapse into no sex as a result of neglect or unresolved problems . |
| 83 | However , if it is a moral decision rather than mechanical conformism or a prudent surrender to social pressures , the case remains fundamentally as before , but with an added layer ; he now takes account , not only of the effects on his parents but of the damage to the community as a whole of any successful disobedience . |
| 84 | Democratic centralism concentrates power in a few hands and at the end of the day produces decision rather than fudging . |
| 85 | They too , therefore , have difficulty in arriving at a foreign policy reached by means of a unanimous decision rather than a foreign policy based on a majority decision . |
| 86 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 87 | The slow pace of political and economic change led opposition critics to claim that the overthrow of the Stroessner military regime had been an exchange of power among the ruling elite rather than marking the beginning of a genuine transition to democracy . |
| 88 | While there is a good deal of intuitive sense in the observation that social workers and teachers respond to financial and other economic incentives like most workers , it is a hypothesis rather than an empirically supported contention . |
| 89 | I am sure my hon. Friend well remembers the Committee stage of the Atomic Weapons Establishment Act 1991 when we had great difficulty in discussing the measure properly because the Department would not release the necessary information . |
| 90 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |