Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of the state was to be changed so that it would offer help in the last rather than in the first resort . |
| 2 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 3 | Given that the state superstructure might be ‘ overdeveloped ’ in relation to the class structure of a given colony , because it originally had its base in the metropolitan rather than the indigenous social structure , this does not tell us what it was about colonialism which produced a state system in which the military-bureaucratic oligarchy was dominant . |
| 4 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 5 | They can then be spared the basic unreality of young people triumphing in circumstances too much for their capacities as well as the inevitable thinness of emotional experience which is bound to restrict the scope of an author wanting to draw characters in the round rather than stereotypes . |
| 6 | Technology chairman Derek Lewis expects sales in the hundreds rather than thousands in the first year , but is aiming for between 5% and 10% of the UK Unix market thereafter . |
| 7 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |