Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 4 demonstrates that in the period covered there was some income redistribution , but mainly towards middle income groups rather than those on the lowest levels . |
| 2 | ( d ) Control is primarily exercised on the budget inputs rather than its outputs . |
| 3 | For too long the modernization of the appellate courts has been geared towards the management of case loads rather than with equipping the appellate judges better for the task of the development of legal rules . |
| 4 | The name of each roundabout will be placed above advance direction signs only when these have to be taken down for maintenance work , so cutting down on costs . |
| 5 | Namaliu stressed that the raids had been authorized by field commanders rather than by the government , and suggested that similar occurrences could be avoided in the future if both countries co-operated in border surveillance measures to prevent BRA members from using Solomon Islands ' territory . |
| 6 | Thus subject departments and individual teachers are to be involved in forming curriculum policies rather than having rights over such policies . |
| 7 | ’ Scottish Homes has had its budget for rent and ownership building programmes more than doubled for 1993/4 . |
| 8 | The South African budget for this year gives university researchers less than they need to keep pace with inflation and allocates most of the additional spending on science to applied work in government laboratories , dashing hopes of a significant increase in university funding . |
| 9 | As will be seen , the Newbolt Report attempts to construct a similar status for English : as " art " it will be said to transcend narrow state or class interests ; while , as " education " its function will be to refuse and actively combat the influence of majority cultures rather than be democratically responsible to them . |
| 10 | The project has not been immune from some of the criticism levelled at the 400 museum rebuilding or building projects underway since the State launched its new museum policy in 1981 , and the mayor of Nîmes defends himself against accusations of megalomania by saying , ‘ We were lagging culturally . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , the significance of ASW consultation with male relatives , and a tendency to examine social factors which may have challenged GP definitions less than with other referrals are rather less positive . |
| 12 | As well as the success in managing to circumvent , persuade or buy off the opposition to nuclear power plants , France has also established a formula for building PWRs quicker than anyone else . |
| 13 | To date it has been the keepers of the government 's cheque books rather than those who conduct the nation 's health checks who have dictated policy over drinking water . |
| 14 | SWINDON saw their hopes of a place in the Second Division play-offs all but disappear in a 1–1 stalemate with Bristol Rovers in a desperately disappointing West Country derby at Twerton Park . |
| 15 | One of the many major problems for this idea is that Broca 's aphasics usually show better performance with content than with function words even when the task is reading aloud single words : the patient given tie , and , the and ant to read aloud might well succeed with tie and ant but not with and or the . |
| 16 | The soliloquy in Renaissance texts is frequently given a special prominence because readers ( and the assumption is of play readers rather than audiences witnessing a production ) believe they are experiencing a moment of privileged revelation where the dramatist reveals a character 's interiority . |
| 17 | Two people can cope with money worries better than one . |
| 18 | We have a tremendous skill base at doing good due diligence work when all said and done due diligence work is really just a focussed audit approach and if we 've good auditors , we should jolly well and good er new diligence er provides and we to react to new diligence opportunities rather than seek out new diligence opportunities . |
| 19 | They attempted to demonstrate that equity value is dependent on the success or failure of the firm 's investment policies rather than any deliberate policy concerning dividends . |
| 20 | It 's easy to get set yourself and with heated curlers , tongs and styling products better than ever before , all you need is a little practice to create the perfect style . |
| 21 | The Army plan anticipated possible involvement in sporadic Third-World conflicts rather than in the European theatre . |
| 22 | From a geomorphological viewpoint the great increase in research investigations particularly since Horton 's 1945 paper and the research of the Columbia school has been reviewed and ascribed ( Gregory , 1976 ) to research associated with seven contributing themes , namely network morphometry , drainage basin characteristics , hydraulic geometry , river channel patterns , theoretical approaches , dynamic contributing areas , and the palaeohydrology-river metamorphosis approach . |
| 23 | And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls . |
| 24 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 25 | Current high levels of unemployment can be accounted for without recourse to an explanation from technology ; consumer appetite for yet more goods and services still appears to be insatiable ; and even those economists who advance reasons why new technology might cause unemployment at some point in the future acknowledge that just at present the likelihood is that it will cause labour shortages rather than an overall labour surplus . |
| 26 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 27 | With its operations obliged to shut down on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays , the carrier losses more than 60 flying days a year . |
| 28 | Dictionary entries more than three letters long are divided into their 3-gram components . |
| 29 | Survivors quietly described how families were destroyed , women abused , men castrated ; how the Gestapo made them play their gypsy violins even while they performed their atrocities . |
| 30 | Lastly , the applicants in the main proceedings pointed out that the conditions imposed by the Act of 1988 attached to the registration of fishing vessels rather than to the issue of licences to fish for quota stock . |