Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists . |
| 2 | Thus subject departments and individual teachers are to be involved in forming curriculum policies rather than having rights over such policies . |
| 3 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 4 | Further evidence that Castro was pursuing his own course rather than responding to US actions is given by the testimony of US Ambassador Philip Bonsal , who found his efforts to meet with Castro and to pursue negotiations thwarted . |
| 5 | Geologists had chiefly looked horizontally where fossils were concerned , using them to date strata rather than following resemblances vertically through time . |
| 6 | ‘ It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest . |
| 7 | Democratic centralism concentrates power in a few hands and at the end of the day produces decision rather than fudging . |
| 8 | The slow pace of political and economic change led opposition critics to claim that the overthrow of the Stroessner military regime had been an exchange of power among the ruling elite rather than marking the beginning of a genuine transition to democracy . |
| 9 | Which particular words and phrases show that the writer is stating opinions rather than making judgements ? |
| 10 | Accordingly , there has been a gradual realization that the endeavour should advance over a broader field rather than trying to seek a ‘ universal ’ method ( Dearden , 1981 ) , that subjective methods are probably more cost-effective ( Price , 1976 ) , that any method should include room for different tastes ( Jacques , 1980 ) , and that much could be learnt from the approach of experts in the area of aesthetic and artistic judgement ( Carlson , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
| 12 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 13 | By the use of this technique , it will be possible to gain precise information about the nature of reading difficulties at the time of comprehension rather than relying on inferences made from memory performance . |
| 14 | Even the economic stimulus package that Congress defeated last week , which contained nearly half a billion dollars for the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and other federal research agencies ( see right ) , would at best have strengthened existing programmes rather than charting new directions . |
| 15 | A major difficulty is likely to be that doctors are usually on the side of giving support rather than receiving it and will probably find it difficult to recognise their own needs . |
| 16 | At crossroads the gibbets provided plump carrion for the hungry crows and ravens ; landless men turned out of their fields as the great lords changed to tending sheep rather than raising crops . |
| 17 | ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family . |
| 18 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 19 | Well I , I , I , I think that you 've got to move in that direction rather than maintaining the status quo . |
| 20 | Why do animals perform their restrained ritual contests rather than fighting all out straight away ? |
| 21 | To some extent , this must be a reflection on the methodology which we adopted , concentrating as we did on interviewing key actors and observing the development , processing , and implementation of proposals rather than focusing on , for example , the teaching methods of individual teachers or the reading habits of individual pupils . |
| 22 | Pairing Breaking into sub-groups rather than solving the conflict as a group coalition . |
| 23 | We adopted the position and as soon as the issue 's resolved the better so I 'm somewhat reluctant in saying that Jack Straw could be less equivocal about C C T rather than concerning himself with what is written on the back of his party card . |
| 24 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 25 | This should enable the purchaser to identify and deal with risks before contract rather than seeking redress from the vendor after completion . |
| 26 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 27 | Thus , in the United States unionisation must precede collective bargaining rather than following it since extensions of negotiating rights take place at plant or company level , on an individual and piecemeal basis , and often have to be secured against adamant employer resistance . |
| 28 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 29 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 30 | professional distancing by prescribing change rather than working through the problem with the family |