Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 2 | Whether two or more mental events count as of the same type in our sense , to repeat , is a matter of whether there is a discriminable difference in content , any such difference , whether or not the events are included under the same more or less general description . |
| 3 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |
| 4 | The main targets are damson-hop aphids , related to the common greenfly and about half the size of a grain of rice , which have developed immunity to pesticides . |
| 5 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 6 | The intensity of the potency , determined by the quantity of dose given , is also regulated to the optimum especially if the doses are increased progressively as is suggested e.g. an extra 5ml spoonful each week . |
| 7 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 8 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 9 | This monograph deals with the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of stability tests on cosmetic products . |
| 10 | Barr 's European equivalents flourished in the 1950s rather than the 1930s — Jean Cassou at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris , Wilhelm Sandberg at the Stedlijk in Amsterdam , Pontus Hulten at the Modern Museum in Stockholm and then at the Pompidou Centre in Paris . |
| 11 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 12 | The plinth at the base was used as an altar , Mass being celebrated in the open so that people too afraid to move from their houses could benefit from the service . |
| 13 | Here the material will be used in the spoken rather than written form and you may want to rephrase the information accordingly . |
| 14 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
| 15 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 16 | These included , retreating through northern Yugoslavia , the remains of the German Army Group E , which had controlled south-eastern Europe under the command of Gen Alexander Loehr , and which , with its anti-Communist allies , were anxious to surrender to the British rather than to Communist forces . |
| 17 | Yet the king-duke began to insist from the 1270s onwards that all allods were sub posse et dominio … regis et ducis ( ‘ under the power and dominion of the king-duke ’ ) . |
| 18 | He returned to the offensive only when a Polish general in Hungarian service , Józef Bem , took most of Transylvania out of the hands of the local Austrian commanders . |
| 19 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 20 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 21 | It was also announced that the country 's domestic defence industry was to be developed in the 1990s so that by the year 2000 it would be able to produce its own military aircraft , warships and submarines . |
| 22 | The following year was billed as the last ever and saw Steel Pulse canned off after 15 minutes by a typically broad-minded Stranglers crowd and Black Sabbath playing in front of an unfinished replica of Stonehenge . |
| 23 | LIFESPAN will display the issue identifier , despatch status ( Y or N ) and the Product identifier for a set of up to 20 Issues associated with the named Client , starting from the first alphabetically or from the one indicated by the Start issue id , and a message if more details are available for viewing . |
| 24 | To those like me whose education concentrated on the physical rather than the biological sciences , the Nilsson film was a revelation . |
| 25 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 26 | The traditional picture presented above of the efficacy of the occasional desert flood probably really applies to the semi-arid rather than to the truly arid regions . |
| 27 | It may be that the central significance of modern manifestations of the humanist impulse is to be found at the practical rather than the methodological or theoretical level . |
| 28 | Briefly , for those who want to search for one of these rarities : beautiful , very fast , start saving at £14,000 and go for the carburetted rather than the injected version . |
| 29 | In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air . |
| 30 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |