Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 2 | Fearon , his swarthy face as white as a ghost beneath the tan , removed his hard hat slowly , the last to do so , and with an angry look at Green as if he felt the financier had somehow insulted rather than honoured the lifeless form sprawled on the flagstones . |
| 3 | The results suggest that pancreatic PLA2 circulates mostly as inactive enzyme in patients with acute pancreatitis whereas synovial type PLA2 is responsible for the increased catalytic activity of the enzyme and thus might be associated with the pathophysiology of the disease . |
| 4 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 5 | Old unresolved conflicts may need to be exposed rather than hidden or disguised . |
| 6 | This is not only because of the harmful effects they can have on the physical self but also because the need for them indicates a severe deficiency in the emotional self — a deficiency which needs to be helped and treated rather than disguised . |
| 7 | ‘ How much sort of ? ’ she asked weakly as vague memories of vast station properties stirred . |
| 8 | On the other hand , churches with poor workmanship , of small size , and altered rather than rebuilt , may well indicate poor localities , or a lack of interest in the church . |
| 9 | Although we have argued for the view that law is differentiated rather than monolithic , we have to stress that there do exist common factors and interrelations , both within specific arenas and within the legal system as a whole , that have to be considered . |
| 10 | Some of the tunes are noodling , familiar and limp rather than languid . |
| 11 | However , since the study is conducted in an area known to most of the subjects it is important that the memories reported should be specific to the drive just completed rather than general knowledge about that area of Cambridge . |
| 12 | Roughly , and somewhat metaphorically , we can say that something of the following sort goes on when successful communication takes place . |
| 13 | The company , which employs 70 staff , say work goes on as usual , the fire was confined to a storage area . |
| 14 | This reshuffling goes on until all four seats are filled . |
| 15 | This sort of circular debate , frequently widening out to involve others within and without the company , goes on until all are satisfied that the result is as good as they are going to get . |
| 16 | This goes on until all the players are in the same place . |
| 17 | Storage heights of 50 m appears to be a distinct possibility , racked rather than stacked goods to be the general trend and an increasing degree of automation to be likely . |
| 18 | Skills ( rather than facts ) will be emphasised , and individual engagement in the world prized rather than some one-way transmission . |
| 19 | However , there is a real determination to carry on as usual . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He 'd have to carry on as usual or else it would look suspicious . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I just want to carry on as usual . ’ |
| 22 | With older people , who have lived through the period when new ‘ miracle ’ allopathic drugs have appeared to offer a solution to all pain and ill-health , it is these prescribed rather than proscribed drugs that will be the main problem . |
| 23 | It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs . |
| 24 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 25 | It is , however , the direct producers , not the capitalist class who usually suffer most when this occurs as , for example , the tin miners of Bolivia and the rest of the world found out when the London Metal Exchange terminated its tin contract in 1985 ( Crabtree , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | He had a degree of concern for the vanquished Germans , and respect for them as individuals , which taught me another valuable lesson , and which still makes his name in Wilhelmshaven one which is honoured rather than reviled . |
| 27 | Even Lou 's piranha snapping now began to seem like something read rather than experienced . |
| 28 | The two aims of increasing productivity and redistribution that have permeated agrarian thinking have often been seen as competing rather than complementary . |
| 29 | The petals are the last to go on as these will fade and die quickly if a start is made too soon . |
| 30 | However , the left , broadly defined , is being courted rather than spurned . |