Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eat as much fresh produce as possible rather than relying on tinned , packed and frozen foods . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's better to triumph in as many races as possible rather than winning the World Cup with a series of good placings , ’ said the Italian , who has 28 career wins . |
| 3 | Decide why you did that rather than meeting A. Starter : A says , " Where were you last night ? " |
| 4 | That rather than making a block grant for somebody because we know they do a good job , that we do more directly relate that to services they 're providing to us and output . |
| 5 | Within a healthy tradition of Goddess-worship , there is assigned to the Goddess an ambivalence , a sense that left to herself she will be destructive rather than nurturing . |
| 6 | If they accept a contractual obligation to provide care , they may find that voluntary sector care increasingly substitutes for services which otherwise would have been provided by statutory agencies ; they will thus become mainstream rather than supplying supplemental , additional services . |
| 7 | It seems police failure to raise a national alarm may have fooled Stewart into lying low rather than making a run for it . |
| 8 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 9 | Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics . |
| 10 | Initially girls would waste a lot of time being polite to one another rather than getting things done : too polite to choose a chief and get down to work . |
| 11 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 12 | The boats are diesel-powered rather than sailing cobles , but the fleet is small and scarcely serves its local market , let alone an important part of what is in any event a diminishing national fleet . |
| 13 | I am not certain that time and rehabilitation is not the best for this rather than sedating them . |
| 14 | If so , why did you do this rather than selling your unwanted items and then buying the items you wanted ? |
| 15 | Eventually one will see this as interesting rather than demoralising . |
| 16 | Often a horse will try to find his balance by holding his head high rather than finding balance on his hocks . |
| 17 | Bargaining structures within the international context , although extremely heterogeneous rather than conforming to any simple and tidy pattern , may be broadly classified in terms of the level at which negotiations are mainly conducted . |
| 18 | We shall return to this shortly when seeking a measure of infinitesimal strain . |
| 19 | Lord Justice went on , quote , I agree with this indeed when making the calculations the judge had to make , those who die early are the only ones which matter because the fact of living longer than the expectation is immaterial . |
| 20 | This was manifest principally as flushing of the skin and sweating above the level of the lesion . |
| 21 | Augustus kept his own , and , moderating the custom of his Republican predecessors , displayed some publicly while reserving a few items for private enjoyment . |
| 22 | For some reason she found that just as unnerving . |
| 23 | A new type of knowledge , Said contends , must be produced that can analyse plural objects as such rather than offering forms of integrated understanding that simply comprehend them within totalizing schemas . |
| 24 | They will want strong churches to reproduce themselves to make this easy rather than working against it , enjoying the fact that it will sometimes mean breaking through the parish boundaries for the greater good of enabling all of the people in all the parishes to hear all the gospel . |
| 25 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 26 | There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy . |
| 27 | There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy . |
| 28 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not as simple now as signing a contract with somebody , ’ says Phillips . |
| 30 | So straw-burning rather than using straw for animals is something which is bad for the environment and for welfare . |