Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose Hilaire had sat stiffly upright , feet together , hands in her lap , refusing a cigarette — ‘ I do n't smoke — ’ although eventually accepting a cup of tea , during the drinking of which her hand was observed to shake . |
| 2 | The acquisition of a stereotype by a subgroup of the population usually works to its detriment , and although perhaps preserving a grain of truth in relation to the subgroup 's activities , it is also misleading for members of the whole population who use the stereotype . |
| 3 | ( This is obviously a better way of measuring recall than merely counting the number of words remembered , although it does have the disadvantage of being a less objective method since the actual wording used by a subject may be very different from that used in the passage . ) |
| 4 | Given the extreme paucity of provision in the past , to close rather than merely narrow the gap between white education provision and that of other racially defined groups would require an investment well beyond anything that was envisaged before the 1990s . |
| 5 | Similarly , he argued , Britain should seek to create a Social Charter of its own liking , rather than merely oppose the adoption of any social charter at all . |
| 6 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 7 | This both attenuates the force of the current occupationalist attack upon the liberal education tradition and suggests that occupationalist objectives will do little more than merely dilute the quality of the education which pupils might otherwise have received . |
| 8 | This is carried out in relatively modern mercury and diaphragm electrochemical cells and consumes huge amounts of electricity — more than enough to power the city of Liverpool . |
| 9 | for me and I think it might be rather than just record an apology for her absence , I think we should just put in something , just to say that we 're that we are very sad |
| 10 | From watching Isobel and her husband he had discovered that there was much more to sex than just taking a girl to bed or being uneasily married to a frigid , grasping woman . |
| 11 | Setting up a task involves more than just typing the job in a box and putting it onto your timescale . |
| 12 | Removing a Windows application involves more than just deleting the icon from the Program Manager . |
| 13 | But cutting greenhouse emissions from transport will take more than just improving the efficiency of cars and trucks . |
| 14 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 15 | ( d ) The Cabinet Office , although technically providing a service for all members of the cabinet , has grown , in recent years into the Prime Minister 's special source of assistance and information . |
| 16 | This is food of the highest quality and their feeding technique , although always involving the risk of physical injury , is the most efficient of all . |
| 17 | Be that as it may , we have more than once witnessed the potential of legspin in limited-overs cricket . |
| 18 | The primary schools of Oxfordshire , with their occasionally romantic commitments to open learning and creativity , more than once felt the lash of his tongue . |
| 19 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 20 | In a culture more and ore unified by the mass media , it is more absurd and anachronistic than ever to separate the middle-class from the working-class , the potentially academic and scholarly from the rest , in terms of the teaching they will receive at school . |
| 21 | One stage more advanced than the pantograph , although still lacking the sophistication of a magnetic or acoustic digitiser , is the pressure sensitive digitiser . |
| 22 | One stage more advanced than the pantograph , although still lacking the sophistication of a magnetic or acoustic digitiser , is the pressure sensitive digitiser . |
| 23 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 24 | However , business analysis may often suggest altering business practices rather than always reveal a need for computer information systems . |
| 25 | That is , rather than automatically re-entering the tree after a word ending , the path could continue through the tree establishing a close correspondence between certain words , independently of syntactic and semantic processing . |
| 26 | Scottish Amicable 's partnership with J. Rothschild Assurance goes much deeper than purely processing the business for the Company . |
| 27 | We shall have even less time than before to enrich the curriculum with a range of imaginative exploratory activity . |
| 28 | But the British government was still involved in the reproduction of antagonisms in the Ulster statelet , rather than passively accepting the perpetuation of inequalities and discrimination against the catholic — nationalist minority . |
| 29 | The correspondence , leaked to Labour 's Trade spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , discloses for the first time that Lord Young appeared to plan with Professor Roland Smith , chairman of British Aerospace , to hide the figures rather than simply leaving the information to be ‘ scattered ’ in obscure documents in the hope that Parliament would not notice it . |
| 30 | In this context , we may recall that Althusser , rather than simply criticizing the notion of history as a totality as Foucault often tended to do , argued for the rearticulation of different histories within a decentred totality , on the assumption that history can not do without one . |