Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation to park on top of them rather than beside them was overwhelming , but then jacked-up pick-ups do that to you . |
| 2 | I have said before from the Dispatch Box that the attitude of other parties in the House to that Act is a matter for them rather than for me . |
| 3 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 4 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 5 | It was felt that the main objective of the Tory government has been to discipline the unemployed and to lay the blame for their unemployment on them rather than on government economic policy . |
| 6 | Since the tax was paid out of the financial resources of the merchants it was quite proper to seek consent from them rather than from parliament , but the merchants were suspected , no doubt with some justification , of seeking to pass the real burden of the tax on to the producers . |
| 7 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 8 | Some planners , for example , saw that their economic planning might be more effective if they used the price mechanism to work with them rather than against them , and Philip Chantler , the economic adviser brought into the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1947 , consistently advocated a move to higher prices . |
| 9 | But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them . |
| 10 | The international economy consists of relations between these national entities and is shaped by them rather than by a world system which dominates and determines national conditions . |
| 11 | ‘ I hate it when people talk about me rather than to me . |
| 12 | She was still talking about me rather than to me , so in a way I was glad I had n't used any of my real names . |
| 13 | The first area is one that was raised by me rather than by counsel . |
| 14 | but I had n't yet realized that the answers had to come from me rather than from the therapist . |
| 15 | They also tended to know their middle-class patients better and communicated with them better than with their working-class patients . |
| 16 | On my first arrival it stunned me so as to be insupportable : but such is the power of habit that the same noise is now heard by me with pleasure ; in the night particularly , when in bed and afar , on my terrace , this music sounds in my ears as solemn , grand and melodious . |
| 17 | Some of the activities and resources are such that the parties engage or wish to engage in them or possess them only because of the conflict . |
| 18 | We were given detailed programmes of work , which included visiting families and working alongside them so as to be able to understand their most pressing difficulties , We would hold discussions about national politics , to look at the lack of civil liberties and to examine how the system of exploitation divides one person from another . |
| 19 | We believe that men and women together must free ourselves so as to be able to construct a new form of society . |
| 20 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 21 | I more than like him , I love him . |
| 22 | ‘ In the end I asked him not to bet with me anymore because of the size and frequency of his bets . ’ |
| 23 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 24 | M. You ca n't collect them just because of that . |
| 25 | When he come across someone of a different religion , namely Shylock , he abuses and generally mistreats them just because of their religion . |
| 26 | He smiled to himself rather than to her , the mark of a shy man who was intermittently confident with women , she hoped , rather than the smile also of someone who enjoyed cheating on his expenses . |
| 27 | ‘ Something about you suggests you 've never been deeply involved in a relationship , ’ he mused , seeming almost to be speaking to himself rather than to her . |
| 28 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 29 | It lasts eight months in all , which longer than for any NATO force . |
| 30 | These intermedii with their mixture of styles and resources , differing from earlier sixteenth-century dramatic or festive ones only in their lavishness , were not yet opera but they were the most important harbinger of opera , which just because of that mixture was gradually to supplant church music as the very heart of European music and hence establish Italian pre-eminence throughout the continent . |