Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The text evolves , through successive steps of minor redrafting rather than through the more mysterious process of gestation , and with less chance of outside events or circumstances making you forget where you have got to .
2 Confined to West Africa , these species of shrews have been persecuted locally because of their strange internal armour .
3 His speech of 1 November 1962 made references to ’ some differences ' between the two governments , but it was asserted that ‘ Nothing shall come between the Soviet Union and Cuba ’ , and the emphasis was on the Soviet arms which had not been withdrawn rather than on the missiles which had ( Cuba Socialista , no. 16 , Dec. 1962 , pp. 28–30 , in Clissold : 1970 , p. 276 ) .
4 it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose .
5 The attitude of the professional man to his client … is one of pride in service given rather than of interest in opportunity for personal profit .
6 Paradoxically , however , our enthusiasm in turning to these processes lies more in examining how questions of identity and moral careers come to be formed rather than in continuing to equate ‘ urban ’ with ‘ consumption ’ or ‘ social reproduction ’ .
7 Melanie tried to grasp how dreadful it would be if Finn were dead but she could not think coherently because of the terrible sound of Aunt Margaret 's silence .
8 Indeed , it was the same social and economic variables ( low socio-economic status and powerlessness ) that ‘ explained ’ crime ( though in quite a different way — by increasing vulnerability to labelling rather than by increasing actual deviation ) .
9 But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else .
10 Structural unemployment persists mostly because of the geographical and occupational immobility of labour .
11 I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics .
12 In any event , the proposal came close to being passed , and failed only because of last year 's legislative jam-up , Helping it along were the customary health-lobbying tactics , such as having Senator Barry Goldwater , still recuperating from a double hip-joint replacement , hobble into a hearing room on crutches to testify on behalf of the proposed institute .
13 I mean obviously if for example did n't ring up and say I want to sign your name your name tomorrow , I 'd ring her up to see whether she 'd lost her mind or something .
14 They have high costs which are likely to remain so because of the need continually to upgrade facilities and amenities for spectators to retain Test match status for their grounds .
15 and it is usually necessary to remove it by flocculation with alum or alum with sodium aluminate , followed by filtration ; the final pH should be adjusted so as to be close to neutrality on the alkaline side .
16 The ROK armed forces were to be developed so as to be capable of handling internal dissent but the issue as to its capacity for reacting effectively to North Korea was side-stepped .
17 Though they appear green and contain abundant chlorophyll , productivity of these mats is generally low : much of their material is moribund , and persists only because of an absence of decomposers .
18 I can not imagine how it could be revised so as to be suitable for publication anywhere .
19 In the Chiswick works of London Transport , during 1947 , the very popular Regent Three ( R.T. ) double-decker bus was redesigned so as to be ‘ jig built ’ in a like manner to that which the mass-produced Halifax bombers had been during the war .
20 These five possible areas of leisure activities are only illustrative for the particular methodological problem here being discussed ; they are not in fact derived from any research , but they will suffice to show that the researcher should now be thinking in what order they might be placed so as to g*e a sensible progression in an interview .
21 A quiet dignity pervaded its saintly stations but we could never stay long because of course we were late …
22 In narrative terms this is reflected as a disregard for verisimilitude and the use of characters as discursive instances through which a number of different discourses can be made to pass rather than as representations of discrete individuals .
23 Instigate a comprehensive review of UK defence policy which will be dictated by a rigorous analysis of defence needs rather than by fixed monetary targets .
24 Because the communities are so stable in relation to a centre which is largely in their imagination , it matters little whether in fact the real centre is itself actually in turmoil .
25 An important qualification is that we are looking at groups of professionals and the manner in which they are organised rather than at individual teachers — at this latter level there can be little doubt that many individual teachers do respond to client needs despite the structure around them .
26 So far as the availability of evidence before the justices , again , I say little because of the course I am going to take but there clearly was evidence for them to consider and assess .
27 In China , criticism of the bureaucracy has generally not been through formal representative assemblies , councils and congresses but through ‘ mass campaigns ’ , though the direction of influence has tended to be from the party leadership to the masses through propaganda , political education and mobilization exercises rather than from the masses upwards .
28 US diplomatic sources said that the initiative was being pursued secretly because of fears that it could be sabotaged by anti-Arafat Palestinian factions advocating armed struggle against Israel rather than negotiations .
29 That seemed to sum it up , and Lydia left for home , driving slowly because of the sheep , the young pheasants , the occasional rabbit and the small groups of tourists on their way to view some antiquity or item of rustic charm who variously loped , flapped , skittered and scuttled before her .
30 The data produced by Timaeus suggest that kin support has a potential to increase rather than to decline .
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