Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors are frequently appointed not only in the legal departments but in the secretarial departments of large concerns ; but a person who intends to go for a secretarial department would be better advised to obtain a secretarial rather than a legal qualification ( to have both would , of course , be best of all ) . |
| 2 | They are likely to reflect an itinerant rather than a permanent presence . |
| 3 | However , I shall certainly consider whether her suggestion could be included and I am sure that she is right to suggest the positive rather than the negative . |
| 4 | Looking at him , do you seem to see a 25-year-old rather than a player of 35 ? |
| 5 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 6 | We elected to use a static rather than a dynamic method to evaluate transit because our previous studies with dynamic scintigraphy showed that emptying of the unprepared rat ileum into the caecum occurred very infrequently . |
| 7 | It could be used , as it was by Bacon and Mersenne , to justify an empirical rather than a rationalist approach to nature . |
| 8 | Government was prepared to pursue a managed rather than a controlled economy . |
| 9 | But in either case there was a tendency for such borrowings , whether they were syllabuses , textbooks or examinations to become fossilised and consequently to represent a historical rather than a current picture of British educational practice . |
| 10 | Headhunters were also more likely to offer a dynamic rather than a static solution , Gozzard suggested : they would be looking for what was to happen to the company in the future , not just today , and the role of the successful candidate in effecting change . |
| 11 | He therefore maintained that Christ died to pay an equivalent rather than the actual penalty for their sins . |
| 12 | Hence , the dose response relationship for the trophic effect of gastrin on the enterochromaffin like cells seems to follow a polynominal rather than a linear function . |
| 13 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |