Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] to [art] [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 | If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) . |
| 4 | certain words or acts can , as a matter of law , be interpreted only as amounting to a dismissal or resignation ; |
| 5 | If you are a well-known personality , attractive looking and charming , you will find your task much easier : people tend to respond to such individuals rather than reacting to the content of their message . |
| 6 | Let him start talking up our achievements rather than pointing to an agenda which his party has already signed up to which would destroy millions of jobs through statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage and statutory compulsory working week . |
| 7 | Perhaps physical geography has been overtly concerned with the parallel to the first law rather than proceeding to the equivalent of the other three ! |
| 8 | There are undoubtedly risks in encouraging children to redirect their hostility rather than getting to the root of the problem ( if aggression is frequent and/or intense ) or training the child in ways of coping with life that do n't involve aggression . |
| 9 | He begs us to learn to enjoy the changing scenery , rather than clinging to the landscape that feels safe and familiar . |
| 10 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 11 | Further evidence to suggest that events are important in depression according to their threatfulness rather than according to the amount of change they signify comes from a study by Tennant and Andrews ( 1978 ) . |
| 12 | giving inaccurate advice based on previous experience rather than listening to the family |
| 13 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 14 | Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! |
| 15 | When an old issue of bonds is approaching maturity , the Bank of England will probably enter the market to buy them back over a number of weeks or months , rather than waiting to the maturity date and then suddenly releasing a large amount of liquidity into the economy . |
| 16 | As the wind increases above this level it is better to go directly to the No 3 to help the stability of the boat rather than changing to the No 2 . |
| 17 | Rather than agreeing to a daytime race , the hare should have countered the tortoise 's challenge by proposing a sprint at twilight . |
| 18 | Moving the special report , Section and Industrial Conferences and also President if I may , at the same time , moving motion one one one A on behalf of the C E C , rather than returning to the rostrum a second time . |
| 19 | Lorenzo with his Jessica await the return of Portia , remaining out in the still night rather than returning to the house . |
| 20 | So we 're l , we 're l , we 're looking at a couple of the options to see , you know , how much will it cost to actually put the money on the policy rather than going to the effort of writing it out , and it 's gon na cost about two hundred thousand pounds just to do that , erm and that , we need , we need to weigh that up with the cost of actually dealing with ten thousand letters to clients , ten thousand enquiries erm I just wondered what your thoughts were on how we should proceed . |
| 21 | Because we use the output from our page printer as camera ready copy rather than going to the expense of typesetting we are unable to use scanners to integrate pictures into the text as we make the pages up . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now , rather than sliding to the bottom of the league , they hope to be accelerating to the top . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | David Tweedie and the Accounting Standards Board have made it clear that they are losing patience with companies — and their auditors — that bend the rules by interpreting the letter of pronouncements rather than adhering to the spirit . |
| 26 | You will find yourself well satisfied by one dish rather than succumbing to the temptation of eating several smaller dishes that eventually mount up ! |
| 27 | The sea , rather than dipping to the horizon , curled up like the lip of a dish . |
| 28 | In Tchaikovsky 's Second Symphony , Svetlanov allowed some brash brass and unrefined woodwind , seemingly relying on a performance routine rather than applying to the score any insight into the instrumental detail , the folk intonations which can bring it to life in terms of rhythm and melodic inflection . |
| 29 | The Stop the M12 group is also opposed to upgrading the A12 , fearing this would be just as damaging to the environment . |
| 30 | The latter are quite as real as the former , may have equally far-reaching results and can be just as limiting to the quality of life in the individual concerned . |