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Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	However , others feel that , because of the speed of change and because of goal conflict between the professionals involved , educational planning is more difficult and has a political rather than rational dimension .
2	Is his illness political rather than physiological ?
3	If , despite that , there is very little direct democracy in most contemporary societies , the reasons for that are political rather than practical or technical : those who occupy positions of power and authority simply do not want it , and actively resist any attempt to bring it into being .
4	It would appear that the objection to local income tax is political rather than practical .
5	But their purpose was very different , short-term and political rather than long-term and social ; and that was no longer an outrage .
6	But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said .
7	But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside .
8	So far as the malais were concerned , it also made them like Martinho more , in the political rather than personal sense .
9	A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material .
10	The employers , with new-found spirit , informed the Minister that labour unrest was the result of political rather than economic conditions , and withdrew from the discussions .
11	The concept of ‘ disorganized ’ capitalism is essentially sociological and political rather than economic and may require qualification at the political level .
12	The principal preoccupations of the summit were political rather than economic , focusing on Liberia and the continuing role there of the ECOWAS-sponsored peace-keeping force , ECOMOG [ see p. 38278 ] .
13	One suspects that the solution will ultimately rest on political rather than economic considerations .
14	The reservations bourgeois thinkers had about their world were social and political rather than economic , especially where the danger of revolution was unforgotten , as in France , or emerging with the rise of a labour movement , as in Germany .
15	Kochan points out from 1895 to 1905 the strike movement grew , increasingly it had political rather than simple economic concerns .
16	For some farmers and landowners the major impact of the newcomers has therefore been political rather than social , for their arrival in the village has ensured that landownership is no longer the automatic passport to the political domination of the countryside that it was once considered to be .
17	Even more striking as a pointer to the greater importance of political rather than social factors in the rebellion was the participation of men from higher up the social scale ; over ninety participants are described as ‘ gentleman ’ or ‘ esquire ’ , and there was even one knight in the list of those pardoned , Sir William Trussel of Aylmesthorpe , Leicestershire .
18	Despite the entry for a time of media conglomerates such as the Mirror Group and Thomsons into the West African press , I think it is still fair to say that the primary motivation for producing a newspaper in Nigeria is political rather than commercial .
19	Dr Clarke contends that while Keynesianism was overthrown on the pretext that it did not ‘ work ’ , the collapse was political rather than theoretical .
20	The 258 delegates , seated in political rather than national groups , adopted by a large majority a final declaration in favour of a federally based European union , with the EC playing a key role within the UN , the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and NATO ; relations with the Western European Union ( WEU ) would be redefined .
21	In arts and social science particularly , this led to appointments made for political rather than academic reasons .
22	Andrew Tickle of Greenpeace commented : " Britain is seen as dragging its feet by the rest of Europe , giving minimum information and talking political rather than scientific targets . "
23	The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . "
24	This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations .
25	But to suggest that the conflict was over political rather than intellectual matters is to introduce a false antithesis .
26	We are being invited to apply considerations of political rather than public policy .
27	The listings are ‘ descriptive rather than judgemental ’ and aim to convey something of each shop 's character as well as facts on opening hours , range of services provided and so on .
28	Before embarking on a study of lexical semantics , even one which is avowedly descriptive rather than theoretical in orientation , it is necessary to make explicit certain basic assumptions concerning meaning , and to establish , as far as possible , a consistent method of studying it .
29	Lexicography , like linguistics , claims to be descriptive rather than prescriptive , recording people 's use of words without fear or favour .
30	Many of these sections are descriptive rather than prescriptive and contain sentences such as ‘ Most legislators are not lawyers , however , and need to rely on skilled advice ’ .