Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shuffled papers , bringing them together and placing them to one side , face downwards . |
| 2 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 3 | We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives . |
| 4 | Made up of three National Certificate Modules , each cluster is designed to encourage students , especially those in schools , to take coherent groups of modules , rather than choosing them at random . |
| 5 | This was the main value they attributed to school work experience rather than seeing it in any direct sense as preparation for engineering work . |
| 6 | Try using a diffuser hairdryer like Babyliss Diffuser Dryer ( from £19.95 ) which disperses heat rather than concentrating it on one area , or buy an attachment such as Braun 's DIF2 Diffuser ( £4.95 ) . |
| 7 | It is also good at containing costs and farming out its staff to work on site rather than keeping them in expensive offices of its own . |
| 8 | In formulating the plan " it is important to recognise the benefits of developing packages of services appropriate to the assessed needs of individual children and their families , rather than directing them to existing services which may not be appropriate " ( para 2.11 ) . |
| 9 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 10 | They felt that the press laid too great an emphasis on the frailty of older people and situations where they were in danger , rather than showing them as active members of the community . |
| 11 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 12 | During periods of anaerobic carbohydrate metabolism , the worms may also excrete pyruvic acid rather than retaining it for future oxidation when aerobic metabolism is possible . |
| 13 | The thing is maybe they could keep their extraordinary lifestyle to themselves that way rather than imposing it on other people |
| 14 | The skill of research is in accessing fundamental points quickly and substantiating them with hard data . |
| 15 | There is nothing inherently improbable about the same company producing both and selling them to opposite sides in a war . |
| 16 | Nor were donors always royalty : the wife of Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud adorned a crucifix at Waltham in Essex with a crown , as well as decking it with other ornaments . |
| 17 | You need to give yourself incentives and rewards , as well as receiving them from other people . |
| 18 | For example , the typical credit card agreement allows the holder to draw cash from the issuing bank ( unrestricted-use , debtor-creditor ) , as well as using it for restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier transactions . |
| 19 | If you only need to check the base memory and also wish to know how much space remains on your HDD ( hard disk drive ) then the CHKDSK command will convey this information , as well as informing you of any HDD errors such as lost files and bad sectors . |
| 20 | In common with the best of our competitors , Sainsbury 's have made it their policy to incorporate on-site bakeries into every new store opening , as well as adding them into many existing locations . |
| 21 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |