Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [subord] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 2 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 3 | Although the co-founders , Phil Edwards and Dave Jordan , both come from Dun & Bradstreet Corp , they will be focusing on attracting a new customer base rather than wooing an old one . |
| 4 | Sixteen pubs and a nightclub are taking part in the scheme , being regarded as a preventive measure rather than replacing the normal reporting of incidents to the police . |
| 5 | Labour 's rhetoric should be about engineering a genuine equality of opportunity rather than imposing a mythical equality of outcome … |
| 6 | Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road . |
| 7 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 8 | We had decided to return by service bus in the other direction so as to complete a round trip . |
| 9 | Some countries in particular periods have flexible wages and prices which , at times of unemployment , change so as to reduce the real value of wages . |
| 10 | In all three cases the Court has stressed the gravity of revenge attacks and the danger of dissatisfied victims or their relatives taking the law into their own hands , and then found reasons to mitigate the sentence so as to allow the immediate release of the offender . |
| 11 | The version of the National Institute model used has been modified , with earlier ESRC support so as to provide an extended modelling of the major financial linkages in the economy . |
| 12 | These were also modified by linker addition so as to contain a BamHI recognition sequence . |
| 13 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 14 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 15 | On the other hand , this argument assumes that the function of judicial review is first and foremost to provide redress against illegal government action rather than to protect the personal interests of litigants . |
| 16 | People adhere to astrology with a dogmatic frame of mind rather than having a sceptical , critical approach . |
| 17 | It will of course be impossible to attempt to evaluate an overall programme rather than assess a specific course , if no clear overall programme exists . |
| 18 | It was inevitable that I was fully occupied by my fear rather than watching an Egyptian film , Abla and Anter , a classic Bedouin love story . |
| 19 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 20 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 21 | The Voice is a very important aid especially when training the young horse . |
| 22 | The SEC has acknowledged the need to encourage legitimate information gathering and dissemination so as to promote the efficient operation of the nation 's securities markets . |
| 23 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 24 | The internalized dialogue that it brings acts on the mind so as to generate a continuing cycle of reflection and intellectual advance . |
| 25 | ‘ Real ’ Christianity , in Clarkson 's words , depended upon ‘ a total change of heart or of mind so as to produce a corresponding change of Life ’ . |
| 26 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 27 | In the Court of Appeal Lord Justice Scott said that the set-off under Rule 4.90 operated at the date of the winding-up so as to leave the net amount claimable by a company in a liquidation from the other party or provable as a debt in the liquidation . |
| 28 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 29 | As a result , the scrutiny of the estimates in the Committee of Supply became a formal vote to reduce the money for this or that department by a nominal figure so as to permit a general attack on the government 's policy in that field . |
| 30 | As has been said , a decision was made to abandon high-order averaging by the instrument so as to obtain a full record of the variations in measurement . |