Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They attempted to demonstrate that equity value is dependent on the success or failure of the firm 's investment policies rather than any deliberate policy concerning dividends . |
| 2 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 3 | Similarly , Alison Hennegan has described how as a teenager she hunted out lesbian fiction and based her decisions to investigate one text rather than another on clues as vague and ‘ irrational ’ as a publisher 's logo or a particular chapter title . |
| 4 | The more we look at the behaviour of insects , birds , mammals , and man , the more we see a continuum of complexity rather than any difference in kind that might separate the intellectual Valhalla of our species from the apparently mindless computations of insects . |
| 5 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 6 | Merely showing an interest was often enough to move events in one direction rather than another . |
| 7 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , the first FRS to be based on the ASB 's own proposals rather than those ‘ inherited ’ from the Accounting Standards Committee , is based on FRED 1 and the comments received on the exposure draft . |
| 8 | The predominant use of one function rather than another is not , said Jung , to be despised . |
| 9 | Unlike in a firm that is a jack of all trades , the supplier is an independent business subject to market disciplines rather than another bit of a big bureaucracy . |
| 10 | So , too , was the presence of a serious challenger rather than another stalking horse . |
| 11 | Footpaths through parks have a significant number of users who are actually pedestrians en route to another destination , but such use depends on the accident of alignment rather than any attempt to meet defined flows through conscious planning . |
| 12 | Secondly , in general courts are more favourably disposed to clauses which limit liability rather than those which completely exclude it ( Cf Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 and RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farm [ 1978 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 602 . ) |
| 13 | These could indicate a referendum rather than another General Election . |
| 14 | You did go round the houses on that that was n't to get the point |
| 15 | The Welsh connection may have brought Morgan to the duke 's notice during his control of the Herbert lands , but it was Morgan 's legal expertise rather than any regional pull which Gloucester valued . |
| 16 | The Welsh connection may have brought Morgan to the duke 's notice during his control of the Herbert lands , but it was Morgan 's legal expertise rather than any regional pull which Gloucester valued . |
| 17 | Thus , what is said about the text is contingent on the nature of those institutions : it will differ across literate societies , as it does for instance between those with a tradition of novel-writing or of academic institutions etc. and those without , and its consequence will depend on the social role , functions and meanings of its practice . |
| 18 | The ideology of republicanism aroused some interest ; but it was thought of in terms of ancient history rather than contemporary politics , in terms of the world of Lycurgus , Solon and Pericles rather than that of Louis XV , Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 19 | After the meeting , the North Americans acknowledged that : ‘ We recognise more clearly what our nation , along with other western powers , has done through its communication resources to dominate other cultures and … serve the interests of transnationals rather than those of people . ’ |
| 20 | We export not only form and content but western economics-based theories of media regulation that serve the interests of transnationals rather than those of peoples . |
| 21 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 22 | There are many ways of seeing the same picture and what follows is offered as a useful framework rather than any kind of definitive blueprint . |
| 23 | It was essential , moreover , that the executive should , as far as possible , remain in charge of the budgetary process to ensure that the final product , as far as possible , reflected the president 's economic policy preferences rather than those of the legislature . |
| 24 | May we respect those who give of their time , their friendship and their talents rather than those who strive always to gain more for themselves Amen |
| 25 | Judith Hughes , for example , puts forward a way of seeing autonomy ( and adulthood ) based primarily on the notion of responsibility rather than that of rationality , thus giving an ethical dimension to autonomy . |
| 26 | A follow-up meeting in December of that year acted upon suggestions made at the earlier gathering , and aimed to ‘ set up opportunities for women to explore new approaches to theatre-making that more profoundly reflect their own experience rather than that of men ’ . |
| 27 | She does have affection for him but is not over-impressed with his success as a writer and she speaks directly from her own experience rather than any vicarious sensations . |
| 28 | For systems which have evolved on the basis of operational experience rather than those which have been created by a formal design process , job analysis rather than task analysis may be the starting point of human factors studies . |
| 29 | Why do consumers buy one brand rather than another ? |
| 30 | Finally , rather than stereotyping scientists as capitalist Frankensteins , making monsters for commercial gain , a more constructive approach would be to consider how the allocation of resources can be altered to meet the needs of the public majority rather than those of a minority in power . |