Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 2 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 3 | Please return them as soon as possible , rather than using them for storage . |
| 4 | Johnson 's problem was the IAAF 's problem , and the bottom line was that when he was caught cheating in Seoul , the powers-that-be imposed the statutory punishment of two years rather than banning him for life . |
| 5 | Enhancements to Gemstone include improved cache functions , which enable temporary objects to be held in memory rather than writing them to disk ; disk clustering , and reduced object identification size . |
| 6 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 7 | Europa Europa , on the other hand , holds Solomon 's predicament up for our detached scrutiny , rather than involving us at gut level . |
| 8 | That the girls might be unaware of the camera rather than seducing it to death . |
| 9 | Surely this is the moment when the strong west should be able to offer a hand of assistance to those countries , rather than holding them at arm 's length while it completes its own internal workings . |
| 10 | So , rather than holding it in front of you as in the carve gybe , you deliberately lose the power from the rig by oversheeting ad leaning it towards the wave . |
| 11 | Rather than accusing him of anachronism , academic critics tended to concentrate their fire on internal contradictions or flawed assumptions in his policy . |
| 12 | In those days , if you were ill in England , the doctor visited you , rather than expecting you to stagger to the surgery . |
| 13 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 14 | In order to give people more confidence rather than surrounding them with gloom and doom , we should point out that , since 1979 , GDP has risen 22 per cent . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Trim excess fat from meat before cooking ; grill , poach and steam food rather than frying it in fat . |
| 17 | Adorno seems to offer such a ‘ sticking point ’ , and for that reason it seems worth confronting his critique rather than burying it as myth . |
| 18 | Poststructuralism , which in its own way also takes part in that history of Western Marxism , differs only insofar as it foregrounds the implications of the theoretical difficulties involved rather than repressing them in pursuit of the unrealized ideal . |
| 19 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 20 | A stress is applied to the sample by rapidly pulling rod R downwards and clamping it in position . |
| 21 | It can take a great deal of courage and confidence to challenge colleagues in this way , but as you will see by studying the Code itself , the definition and standards of conduct required are clear and unequivocal , even if putting them into practice is not always as easy as it is made to sound . |
| 22 | ‘ Caroline looked after Queen Of Shannon as well as riding her at home . |
| 23 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 24 | And does the board add value by enhancing the wisdom of management as well as holding it to account ? |
| 25 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 26 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 27 | However , other activities are useful , well-designed and clearly related to the textual information , and there is a recurring insistence that learners try to evaluate the processes they are using as well as setting them in action as a means to an end . |
| 28 | Both groups can send useful leaflets as well as putting you in touch with other women who have been in your situation . |
| 29 | He believed education should fit man for society , as well as equipping him with learning , hence he pressed not only for lessons in drawing , but also in French . |
| 30 | He clasped my hands and bowed rhythmically while greeting me in Arabic . |