Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 2 | Such macho tendencies are potentially limiting , rather than enriching for the boys who read such stories , and serve to perpetuate the myth of the ‘ boys do n't cry ’ syndrome . |
| 3 | This occurs when a firm continually has to ‘ look over its shoulder ’ and concentrate on short-term performance targets in order to try and maintain its share price , rather than planning for the future . |
| 4 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 5 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 6 | Richard Agutter , head of Peat 's merger and acquisition network , said the relatively low average values indicated that British companies were making cross-border deals for strategic reasons ‘ rather than going for the mega-deals ’ . |
| 7 | The evidence in Chapter 3 that was taken as counting against Wagner 's analysis of latent inhibition is just as damaging for the interference account developed here . |
| 8 | This obviously saves much time and effort as well as allowing for the creation of more imaginatively produced work . |
| 9 | Johnny Giles , as well as writing for the Mail , writes regular articles for the Evening Herald in Dublin . |
| 10 | An example word supercilious , compiled from simulated data ( 244,140,625 complete candidate strings ) was tested using the old method of complete string look-up ( 7 hours and 48 minutes processing time ) , and the new letter by letter look-up ( 13 seconds processing time ) — these figures include the time taken to build the tree structure as well as searching for the candidate strings . |
| 11 | Animals , infants , and deviant adults are said to see , hear , smell and so on , in those special circumstances , where we feel impelled to mark the similarity of their behaviour to that of human beings situated likewise whilst allowing for the inability to describe what they perceive . |