Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such nurses need to benefit from an individual appraisal and assessment of their experience and skills so that re-entry becomes a natural progression for them rather than a hurdle to be jumped . |
| 2 | As a legal precedent section 2(5) of the 1981 Education Act was significant because it was addressed directly to governing bodies and assigned a primary role to them rather than the local authorities . |
| 3 | Because much of the product is already familiar to readers this review will concentrate , so far as is possible , on the upgrades and the reasons behind them rather than the existing features . |
| 4 | The advantage of the hybrid model is that the courts retain some control over the regulatory rules in the sense that they are not bound to give effect to them rather than the general law if they are considered unreasonable . |
| 5 | This may well be the man in me rather than the man of God . ’ |
| 6 | They contacted me rather than the police , and we 've had our own doctor patch him up . " |
| 7 | I like them better than the modern ones . |
| 8 | ‘ The 1990 NSR250 suited me better than the ‘ 89 version , which used to suffer from bad front wheel slides . |
| 9 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 10 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |
| 11 | In particular , there is a distinction between those adult children , often single , of old people , who have lived with them long before the dependency arose and those , often married , who offer a home to an old parent hitherto living independently . |
| 12 | It cost me less than a tenner and for swingtipping and springtipping it was brilliant . |
| 13 | Military and political commanders would normally decide to use them only when a war in Europe was in full swing . |
| 14 | Mrs Frizzell had carefully cultivated her , too , but she let it pass , while Margaret complained that all four children had the measles and that she was going to have to leave them alone if the babysitter did not come soon ; she was not going to miss the dance at the Pinetree Club for worlds , and was dear Donna coming ? |
| 15 | On modern totalitarianism there is a kinship of interest between them deeper than the ocean and higher than the stars . |
| 16 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 17 | Such a system calls for kites with similar stability characteristics , otherwise there is a risk of tangling the two kitelines , as the shared weight draws them together when the unit nears the stop , |
| 18 | But police say the IRA message gave them less than an hour to respond . |
| 19 | He 's with me only because the Reichsführer ordered it . ’ |
| 20 | A ball of green wool was passed around and we used it to bind ourselves together as the singing continued . |
| 21 | SIR , — Most commentators would describe ‘ life-terminating acts without explicit request of patient ’ ( LAWER ) as non-voluntary euthanasia but the Dutch do not because euthanasia was defined for the Remmelink report only as ‘ intentionally taking the life of a person upon his or her explicit request by someone else than the person concerned ’ . |
| 22 | Of course this imaginative feat is possible only because we watch the tragedy secure in the knowledge that we shall be ourselves again when the curtain goes down . |
| 23 | He had them exactly where every actor who ever lived wants his public , watching his every movement , letting him dictate their lives for a little moment . |
| 24 | Their consummate skill in limiting demands for independence on the royal demesne , while favouring them elsewhere where a royal confirmation might create allies , has often been remarked . |
| 25 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 26 | How nice it was to be able to use all of the pedestrian walkways and see the beauty of them just as the planners visualised . |
| 27 | Interesting high-profile autobiographies that drop names like confetti : in Well , I Forget The Rest ( Hutchinson , £17.99 ) , Quentin Crewe , thrice-married , confesses : ‘ It has never taken me longer than a week-end to fall in love , usually less . ’ |
| 28 | Excuse me just because the tape 's on there 's no need for you to use big words like prognosis . |
| 29 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 30 | Odder , though , that the killer , assuming there is a killer , did n't use it to dry himself rather than the smaller tea towel . ’ |