Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [subord] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 2 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 3 | Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm . |
| 4 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 5 | This was the main value they attributed to school work experience rather than seeing it in any direct sense as preparation for engineering work . |
| 6 | The wrongful act of the son in intercepting those letters , which could not have been anticipated by the creditor , was held not to affect the creditor so as to prevent it from enforcing the charge . |
| 7 | Would it not be preferable to broaden the defence of diminished responsibility so as to convert it into a defence of extreme emotional disturbance , applicable to both sexes ? |
| 8 | The universal element here is that human beings use their resources of language and technology to simplify the world of experience so as to bring it under control . |
| 9 | Well no cos it 's better receiving Valentines card rather than hearing it over the phone really why they gave them out |
| 10 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 11 | Analysts , however , have taken the concept of ‘ literal meaning ’ as a ‘ neutral ’ and ‘ universal ’ tool of study rather than treating it as an object of study in itself , as a part of the ‘ social construction of reality ’ which they are trying to describe and to explain . |
| 12 | They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release . |
| 13 | Tip : Always dry lettuce carefully when using it as a filling to prevent sandwiches going soggy . |
| 14 | During periods of anaerobic carbohydrate metabolism , the worms may also excrete pyruvic acid rather than retaining it for future oxidation when aerobic metabolism is possible . |
| 15 | Thus , he or she will tend to resolve the crisis rather than use it as a lever towards treatment . |
| 16 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 17 | A major start has already been made with the agreement that Scottish Nuclear can store its spent fuel on site rather than send it to BNF 's reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria , which will save £45 million a year . |
| 18 | A woman who left her pet greyhound in agony rather than take it to a vet after it broke its leg in a road accident has been banned from keeping dogs for seven years . |
| 19 | Freud 's psychology belongs to the kind which seeks to understand human behaviour rather than to explain it on a scientific basis ; that is , it is verstehende psychology rather than erklärende psychology . |
| 20 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 21 | A great deal has been written of the Pilgrims Road and its travellers and its river crossings and I 'm of the opinion that more Pilgrims to Canterbury follow this route now than followed it in Mediaeval times ( howls of protest ) . |
| 22 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 23 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 24 | If you have a cat and you let it walk around the countryside rather than confine it in your house ; what is the consequence ? |
| 25 | Planning permission will only be given if planners can show it would be cheaper to supply the demand rather than reduce it with energy conservation measures . |
| 26 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 27 | The social dynamics which foregrounded a consciousness of individual identity have been clearly analysed : primo-genitive inheritance forcing younger sons to seek a role outside the family ; the growth of a socially fluid urban society and of cathedral schools and the resultant rise of an administrative class ; the climate of learning and debate about the purposes of life , ideals to be followed and choice of life-style — whether to pursue an active life of involvement with the world of affairs or the inner contemplative ideals of a personal relationship with God within the renunciation and shelter of a cloister ; the stress on personal relationships between friends and lovers ; all these factors contributed to raise the profile of the individual within society rather than submerge it in low relief within a predetermined authoritarian hierarchy . |
| 28 | Adorno seems to offer such a ‘ sticking point ’ , and for that reason it seems worth confronting his critique rather than burying it as myth . |
| 29 | Trim excess fat from meat before cooking ; grill , poach and steam food rather than frying it in fat . |
| 30 | NT is a more powerful alternative to Windows For Workgroups , Brown says , and this market niche gives Microsoft the opportunity to undermine Novell from the low end rather than take it on head-to-head . |