Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tyre keeps spinning , the revs remain skyward as Doohan shifts up a gear with the rear end still well out of line . |
| 2 | Land properly and … |
| 3 | But sell rather than build . |
| 4 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 5 | One group says it is to do with social deprivation , and the other blames people 's lifestyle , saying they eat badly and smoke and drink too much . |
| 6 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 7 | So how do you just I mean rather than do it in your head , especially in an exam , just what you 're going to do , put the Add X to both sides say . |
| 8 | I mean rather than do all the photocopying or whatever . |
| 9 | The main disadvantage of a Schedule E income tax charge is that it arises before the managers realise any cash from their shares to pay the tax , and that the benefit of indexation , which would apply were the gains to be subject to capital gains tax rather than income tax , will not be available . |
| 10 | This method also prevents selection of the incorrect morphemic roots of the word ( preached is found as a derivative of preach rather than ache ) since the selection of the correct root form can be made with certainty at development time with the aid of dictionaries . |
| 11 | Some of the tunes are noodling , familiar and limp rather than languid . |
| 12 | We try to determine the bodily functions that have become disjointed … the patient should have a good sleep , eat properly and the bowels must move more regularly . |
| 13 | ‘ A great deal of time and effort has gone into ensuring that all materials and finishes co-ordinate effectively and that the work was carried out to the highest possible standards , befitting a grand old Bank , ’ said Tony Caroli , Property Project Manager . |
| 14 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 15 | Her frequent denunciations of high levels of taxation and public expenditure , of big government , and of the diminution of individual freedom and choice are passionate and deeply felt ; they are expressed in attacks on the baneful , almost ‘ immoral ’ , effects of inflation and of governments which debase the currency , or borrow rather than ‘ balance ’ their income and expenditure . |
| 16 | Migraine , too , is followed by nausea and vomit rather as sin is followed by remorse . |
| 17 | This is because the characteristics of a region 's economy and the supply of air transport usually change slowly and hand-in-hand with one another . |
| 18 | They were , he said , the kind of documents you eat rather than read . |
| 19 | Children suffer most when Dad beats Mum |
| 20 | It is , however , the direct producers , not the capitalist class who usually suffer most when this occurs as , for example , the tin miners of Bolivia and the rest of the world found out when the London Metal Exchange terminated its tin contract in 1985 ( Crabtree , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | To some extent the private ‘ second economy ’ ( accounting for as much as 25 per cent of GNP ) circumvents the formal , official pecking order , but there as well , influence rather than money is what confers wealth . |
| 22 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 23 | The engine rooms lay astern and in the bows , beneath awnings , were wheels as tall as a man . |
| 24 | But , of course , such slight diagnostic indications mean little unless a theory is to hand which can explain their crucial importance . |
| 25 | Conclusions about coping responses which have a protective effect against a wide range of events are more easily obtained when the events are likely to be associated with acute anxiety and fear rather than depression ( e.g. Jaremko , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | They were less successful " where it was a question of altering the distributional restraints on their phonology ( the ( r ) -variables " — in this case , /r/-dropping rather than /r/-insertion , as required of British English speakers acquiring a North American accent . |
| 27 | Most private sector employers advertise locally and in the nursing press , although some may run recruitment drives of their own , or exhibit at a job fair . |
| 28 | The gels , the sturdy Gwendolen of Susannah Harker and Claire Skinner 's pretty ingenue Cecily did well enough , though their voices suggested current RADA-speak rather than , I imagine fin-de-siecle deb talk . |
| 29 | I regret only that the article entitled ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ and published in The Criterion for January 1938 , is not better . |
| 30 | Sing and dance together and be joyous , but let each one of you be alone , |