Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 2 | The £4.1 billion jump in bank-lending was month was twice the average monthly increase in 1992 , but economists warned that it reflected a rebound rather than new hope that consumers are taking on significantly bigger borrowings to fuel recovery . |
| 3 | All three represent fundamental shake-ups and policy shifts , and as their implementation coincides with a ruthless financial squeeze on local government , the council tax and community care may look like empty statements of ideology rather than meaningful new policies . |
| 4 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 5 | Most consumers ‘ certainly fail to recognise the implications of agricultural practices and policy ’ , such as subsidies for producing and promoting full-fat milk rather than semi-skimmed or skimmed milk , and those for butter and meat . |
| 6 | And it 's preferable to have a golf course rather than agricultural land which might be heavily dosed with chemicals six times a year , which is more than the average course . ’ |
| 7 | However , if it is a moral decision rather than mechanical conformism or a prudent surrender to social pressures , the case remains fundamentally as before , but with an added layer ; he now takes account , not only of the effects on his parents but of the damage to the community as a whole of any successful disobedience . |
| 8 | Much of the peripheral area is former coal field rather than rural . |
| 9 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 10 | The tradition of the words of the Lord was largely oral , and even after the canonical gospels were freely circulating , second-century citations of Jesus ' teaching often suggest oral rather than written transmission . |
| 11 | Smoking clinics usually provide health information , group discussion and mutual support rather than specific treatment . |
| 12 | On the day of application he convened an extraordinary board meeting and , within minutes , announced that Whaddon Athletic was now known as Athletico Whaddon , thus ensuring Premier rather than Fifth Division football . |
| 13 | Similarly , Alison Hennegan has described how as a teenager she hunted out lesbian fiction and based her decisions to investigate one text rather than another on clues as vague and ‘ irrational ’ as a publisher 's logo or a particular chapter title . |
| 14 | The more we look at the behaviour of insects , birds , mammals , and man , the more we see a continuum of complexity rather than any difference in kind that might separate the intellectual Valhalla of our species from the apparently mindless computations of insects . |
| 15 | They appreciate that B because A and A because B are different in meaning , and this understanding is probably based on causal direction rather than temporal order . |
| 16 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 17 | Merely showing an interest was often enough to move events in one direction rather than another . |
| 18 | Just as there are many degree courses which have no specific vocational links so also there are many careers which require the application of intelligence and the disciplines learned during time at university rather than specific subject knowledge . |
| 19 | I shall argue in Chapter 4 that most of the adolescent Creole users are best treated as second dialect speakers of Creole rather than second language learners . |
| 20 | Academics may also find it more practical to obtain accreditation in a single specialty rather than dual accreditation including general medicine , because the experience in emergency admissions and continuing care may be difficult to obtain in some academic units . |
| 21 | Full deferred tax provision rather than partial provision . |
| 22 | In summary , the use of the metaphor of drama has allowed us to construct an alternative model of visionary leadership , one of dynamic interaction rather than unidirectional flow , a process of craft and repetition rather than simple cognition , brought to bear in the communication of affect as well as effect . |
| 23 | For all its drawbacks as a theoretical base for the sociology of knowledge , the social constructionist accounts do suggest the importance of common-sense knowledge , of knowledge in ordinary social interaction rather than theoretical or scientific knowledge . |
| 24 | Unlike most European countries where a close association between unions and political parties has been a longstanding phenomenon , US unions have little close and direct connection with political parties and have relied very heavily on collective bargaining rather than political activity as the means of achieving their ends . |
| 25 | Vietnam , supporting the SOC position , rejected the disarming of government forces , and made it clear that it envisaged an SNC with a largely symbolic function rather than real authority . |
| 26 | The predominant use of one function rather than another is not , said Jung , to be despised . |
| 27 | and er ideology of change rather than industrial relations , erm revolution |
| 28 | But at Knowsley SSD staff will be pleased to learn their new director , who started this week , is a man who likes gradual , evolutionary change rather than sweeping transformation . |
| 29 | If present at all , women are more likely to be found in less important and less influential bodies , at local or regional level rather than national levels , and on advisory rather than decision-making bodies . |
| 30 | As we noted , Hanoverian wars had always , in the end , been financed by taxation ; the novelty of the French war years was the attempt to defray the greater part of their cost from present rather than deferred revenues . |