Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its buildings were functional , housing engineering plant , looms , rope works and warehouses rather than the genteel families of Georgian businessmen . |
| 2 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 3 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 4 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 5 | What is particularly interesting is that the report implies that it was MI5 who endlessly delayed any decision rather than the prison authorities . |
| 6 | I am sure my hon. Friend well remembers the Committee stage of the Atomic Weapons Establishment Act 1991 when we had great difficulty in discussing the measure properly because the Department would not release the necessary information . |
| 7 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 8 | In North East Wales fireplaces are found on sidewalls rather than the upper end of the hall against the gable , as in South East Wales . |
| 9 | In a family in which ‘ asking ’ is always done by a threatening fist , and physical violence is the usual means of expressing ill-temper or frustration , the difference between welfare and ill-fare is the strength of the blow rather than the fact that it happened . |
| 10 | Since one usually needs to measure emission from only a small area of the viewing field rather than the whole field , a fibre-optic probe inserted in the light path would probably be the best method , with the light-pipe output directed on to a highly sensitive photoelectric cell or photomultiplier , whose output would also have to be calibrated against some standard phosphor . |
| 11 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 12 | What I want is an institute which is a centre for architects : a very different concept and one which puts the emphasis on the human capacity for individual creativity rather than the resulting artefact . |
| 13 | Recent reports indicate that only 100 houses rather than the projected 200 per annum have been provided which suggests a rather slow take-off ( Gilg 1981 , p. 110 ) . |
| 14 | By the mid century respectable citizens were thoroughly alarmed at this revolutionary alliance , by then in the hands of the radical agitators and journalists of the cheap lodging houses rather than the instrument of conspirators in the clubs and lodges . |
| 15 | It 's the beginning of the programmes rather than the end . |
| 16 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 17 | Lastly , a station resembles the old religions rather than the new religions in this point , that people go to it . |
| 18 | Of the remainder , there are others where the abuse of trust is clearly evident but from the general text rather than the headline . |
| 19 | While the spectre of the Albert Hall being deemed a furnished tenancy , like that of the vexatious litigant in the law of standing , haunts the annals of legal literature rather than the real world , we do nonetheless require more control than that allowed by Gordon 's commencement theory . |
| 20 | Another form of sun-clock employing the direction rather than the length of the sun 's shadow was the sundial , but the Egyptians who invented it were far from understanding the subtleties involved in making an accurate instrument of this type , which must be calibrated for the latitudes of the different places where it is to be used . |
| 21 | However , when we were living at Gosport , the aircraft from there and Lee-on-Solent , and in particular the excitement of the Schneider Trophy Races , made him decide on the RAF rather than the Royal Engineers . |
| 22 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 23 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 24 | Firstly , the choice would be that of the GP rather than the consumer , and secondly , it is felt that the implied travelling to receive services would limit freedom . |
| 25 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 26 | It thus comes to serve the logical function rather than the interpersonal one . |
| 27 | Thus , it was the accustomed pace of change rather than the fact of an early start , which had already begun to place Britain at a disadvantage in competition against her major rivals at the beginning of the present century . |
| 28 | This shows the importance of timing of births in year-to-year marital fertility change rather than the final number . |
| 29 | Obviously , it is easier for them to develop in the Second Division rather than the First Division . ’ |
| 30 | Ironically , it was the cautious Valuev rather than the enlightened Miliutin who brought such institutions nearer . |