Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 2 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 3 | certain words or acts can , as a matter of law , be interpreted only as amounting to a dismissal or resignation ; |
| 4 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 5 | Rather than agreeing to a daytime race , the hare should have countered the tortoise 's challenge by proposing a sprint at twilight . |
| 6 | However , rather than leading to a debate on the nature and aims and purpose of English studies , the Cambridge Crisis generated , on the one hand , a defence of pluralism , and , on the other , a retrenchment in the name of the unique value of the English classics . |
| 7 | Allocations under this heading are based upon estimates of actual numbers of pupils , with the result that discretionary expenditure on children above the minimum school leaving age is compensated , rather than adhering to a principle of assessing basic needs equitably . |
| 8 | A philosophical training , as well as leading to a knowledge of some of the greatest philosophers of the Western tradition , has much to offer wherever analytical skills and clarity of thought are valued . |
| 9 | Even when flying to a holiday destination there is a strong possibility that the turbine powering the aircraft will have platinum aluminide coated blades for erosion and corrosion protection . |