Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun sg] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he advised them to refrain from indulging in personal abuse of Jews … he exhorted them not to retreat in the face of Police persecution and declared that , if necessary , all Fascist speakers should be prepared to face imprisonment rather than comply with the dictum of the authorities that they were not to attack Jewry . |
| 2 | Subcontracting part of the project is likely to lose time rather than gain it . |
| 3 | Thus , parents may seek to provide advantages for their children via increased earning power rather than direct transfers of capital . |
| 4 | They were less involved in thinly rationing existing services than is often necessary in social work and more able to concentrate help so as to provide a relatively complete service capable of achieving significant change for some people . |
| 5 | Much of the way things would happen depends on the sort of girls there were ; if some were more robust and tom-boyish they would probably have explored the island , but would be unlikely to cause damage unnecessarily while exploring , as the boys did . |
| 6 | It might seem a little crazy to move house rather than decorate the kitchen , and then finish up taking on an almost derelict house instead . |
| 7 | This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it . |