Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their lives they adopted various practical courses of action which accommodated rather than resolved their dilemmas . |
| 2 | They train the labour they need rather than import it ( but note the exceptions like the Korean expatriate workers ) and often give these workers the sorts of skills that can usefully be hired by indigenous rivals ( UNCTC , 1988a ) . |
| 3 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 4 | But he knew from experience it was often best with Blanche simply to answer a question she asked rather than seek to question why she posed it . |
| 5 | The model is a short-run model and this assumption means that , in the short-run , producers will respond to changes in demand by changing the quantity they produce rather than price . |
| 6 | Have a leader who co-ordinates rather than directs the team ? |
| 7 | In contrast , in Crowhurst v. Amersham Burial Board , the defendants planted on their land a yew tree which grew so as to project over onto the land of the plaintiff on which cattle were pastured . |
| 8 | Lord Reid went on to say that the reason that the court will not enforce a restraint which goes further than affording protection to the legitimate interests of a party is because too wide a restraint is against the public interest . |
| 9 | This is partly because as a harder metal it makes a more secure setting for valuable stones and partly that being a white metal it reflects rather than competes with the brilliance and lustre of diamonds . |
| 10 | The consequential shock he suffered all but paralysed him . |
| 11 | ‘ At the end of last season I had all but decided to finish my career playing junior rugby , ’ said McMaster . |
| 12 | Let me assure you , for it 's all part of the legend , at the miracle of my birth I came forth when summoned by my father . |
| 13 | These effective treatments , along with his rejection of blood-letting , purging and polypharmacy which weakened rather than helped the patient , gave homoeopathy the edge over orthodox therapy for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | slamming the car door she trotted rather than walked — towards the flat-roofed building dominating the quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 15 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 16 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 17 | During the past year it has more than doubled . |
| 18 | For example , where a decision has to be made quickly then it may be more appropriate to tell an individual what to do rather than persuade him . |
| 19 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 20 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |