Example sentences of "[noun sg] rather [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I regressed Carol to the night of the crime , taking her back to the outing to the cinema rather than straight to the heart of the distressing incident . |
| 2 | This is because the change in the stock in the current quarter ( ) consists of revaluations ( which are a function of the change in asset prices over the quarter ) and new purchases which are a function of expected gains from the time of purchase rather than simply from the end of the current quarter . |
| 3 | There would be no shortage of clubs interested if the dispute escalated , but Graham will want Merson in peak condition rather than out of the club . |
| 4 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 5 | The agricultural quality of the land and the need to control the rate at which land is taken for development are among the factors to be considered [ in assessing planning applications affecting agricultural land ] , together with the need to facilitate development and economic activity that provides jobs , and the continuing need to protect the countryside for its own sake rather than primarily for the productive value of the land . |
| 6 | The solution was found by looking inwards at the character and operations of our own Group rather than outwards at the way other organisations had approached the problem , and then asking two questions . |
| 7 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 8 | They are simple to install , for all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip protruding sufficiently to enable the full body of water to be emptied into the pool rather than on to the surrounding ground ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 9 | And the more valuable the horse is , with the consequent likelihood of it being kept in more confined and stressful conditions — stabled in solitude rather than out in the paddock with companions — the greater the chances of it developing colic . |
| 10 | Similarly , when he visits the south-east region , he will want to know why so many sales people are investing their time in the office rather than out on the road selling . |
| 11 | You 're doing all the right things but it may be that the source of the irritation is from within your vagina rather than just on the outer labia . |