Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 2 | The direction in which the discussion of literature in the Introduction to the Man of Law 's Tale points , however , is towards a comparison of Chaucer 's writing with that of his contemporary John Gower rather than towards the survey of literary genres detached from the accidental circumstances of the identity of authors of specific examples of those genres that we find in fragment VII . |
| 3 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 4 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 5 | However , when we were living at Gosport , the aircraft from there and Lee-on-Solent , and in particular the excitement of the Schneider Trophy Races , made him decide on the RAF rather than the Royal Engineers . |
| 6 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 7 | As the clock ticked monotonously on the wall Mr Simons slowly and methodically cut up and ate his food , he never said a word . |
| 8 | Ironically , it was the cautious Valuev rather than the enlightened Miliutin who brought such institutions nearer . |
| 9 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 10 | His Mr Sebastian of 1955 and the interesting Red Road of 1962 might have been painted in France or Germany rather than London . |
| 11 | The only hope for a pessimist like Law was to " get the train on to other lines " — to focus the attention on the national unity of Britain rather than on internal divisions ; in other words to emulate Germany rather than France . |
| 12 | She surrendered Victoria gladly and flexed her strained arms . |
| 13 | Marcus rather than , from than this |
| 14 | Because of the recent reorganisation of the management of the infantry , which saw the headquarters of the Scottish infantry division remaining at Edinburgh Castle , Brigadier Scott will become a ‘ two star ’ Major General rather than a ‘ three star ’ Lt Gen , as has been customary in the past with the GOC Scotland . |
| 15 | Its defrosting is subtle , gradual : but Eisenstein rather than Antonioni : grainy , gritty even . |
| 16 | When James VI came to manhood and attempted to assert himself over both the Borderers and the disruptive Highland clans , he tended for a while to concentrate on the Highlands rather than the Lowlands . |
| 17 | She agreed with the Bishop of Lincoln rather than with the students of Lincoln , for she thought him a disaster in the pulpit ; blinking , and articulating his words with difficulty , and often using the peculiar phrase ‘ paradoxic ally speaking ’ . |
| 18 | At the ordinary level of society we find Richard de Derby in London , and Ingelram de Waleys ( meaning Wales , though perhaps the town near Sheffield rather than the Principality ) in Shropshire . |
| 19 | I seem to remember my Panini album once to my horror picturing Stewart rather than Harvey , with the blurb along the lines of ‘ looks set to make the 1st team spot his own ’ but I do n't think that ever happened . |
| 20 | It is cheaper to purchase a plug in Cairns rather than buy a multi adaptor . |
| 21 | The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish . |
| 22 | No one asked the matron if she thought the boy might have done this to silence Charley rather than avenge his mother . |
| 23 | The rate will be fixed by Whitehall rather than local authorities . |
| 24 | And for reformers from above — based in Whitehall rather than Northern Ireland — the past operation of local democracy was seen as part of the problem . |
| 25 | Its third principle , which was based upon a draft by the imperialist Churchill rather than the anti-colonialist Roosevelt , read : |
| 26 | On this issue — it should be noted — it had been Churchill rather than Eden who had been tempted to proceed independently of the United States . |
| 27 | This train will be departing from Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway , calling at Langley Mill , Nottingham , Beeston , and Loughborough rather than commencing from Butterley Station . |
| 28 | ( also ‘ Masai ’ ) Murrells complained that Browne depended on force of personality alone to administer the Masai rather than , as was proper , ‘ custom , procedure and authority … supported by ‘ personality ’ . |
| 29 | Many people feel the North 's best chance of honours in the Konica League went when Colwyn Bay decided to play in exile in Northwich rather than join . |
| 30 | You have n't talked to your Aunt Sarah properly since you 've been here . ’ |