Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market .
2 She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean .
3 This was manifest principally as flushing of the skin and sweating above the level of the lesion .
4 It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation .
5 Although violence at seaside resorts on bank holidays appears frightening enough when described by the media , various studies have pointed to the ritualistic character of this and other delinquent activity .
6 The former assumption says that language behaviour in the classroom has to be natural so as to conform to the naturalness of language use : the latter assumption says that classroom behaviour has to be natural in conformity with natural processes of language learning .
7 She trotted off again , through a really insalubrious area known as Bligh 's Corner , after some landlord , long dead , and she unconsciously quickened her pace a little so as to arrive in the relatively respectable square where the rectory stood , next door to St Jude 's church where Dr Neil 's household worshipped every Sunday .
8 Technically , unless accepted by the Speaker , a resignation from the Assembly became operative only if approved by the Assembly as a whole , which was due to remain in recess until September .
9 The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense .
10 The Argive krater is far smaller than the Attic amphora ; and it looks as though Athenian artists preferred to monumentalise vase-painting rather than venture into the new world of free painting .
11 Reminiscent of the CKR 's ‘ no disp ’ clause , however , the transfer will be effective only if noted on the sea waybill .
12 Furthermore , the hierarchical structuring of the book is typeset so as to emphasize to the reader that p2 is at the same level as p1 and not a continuation of p6 .
13 You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject .
14 They keep fewer beef cattle and many of these are stall-fed rather than grazing in the fields .
15 The state , and the civil bureaucracy in particular even when fused into the party apparatus , controlled the social formation of the Third Reich in the interest of German monopoly capital .
16 Expertise is diffuse rather than held within the guided hand of the state authority .
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