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 | 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 . |
| 5 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 6 | Rather than agreeing to a daytime race , the hare should have countered the tortoise 's challenge by proposing a sprint at twilight . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He became the characters in Homer or the tragedies , and made his audience feel they were seeing the drama as well as listening to an interpretation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |