Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We appreciate your concern in allowing ‘ strangers ’ to live in your home but it is better to have your home cared for rather than leaving it empty . |
| 2 | You might have to be more clear about what you 're specifically asking for rather than use handles titles . |
| 3 | He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all . |
| 4 | Yet they count for little when balanced against his blindness to the cultural ferment which was agitating educated Germany by the later decades of his reign and his ignorant contempt for most of the greatest German writers and scholars of the age . |
| 5 | A statement from the council 's environmental health department said the authority would rather see dogs cared for properly than have to catch them as strays . |
| 6 | Because Hector 's dolphins can not hold their breath for long and dives rarely exceed 2 minutes ( compared with up to 8 minutes for a bottlenose dolphin ) , entanglement in a set-net is usually fatal . |
| 7 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 8 | In Fig. 6.7 therefore , a choice has to be made at the top of the tree between so and sew based on the transitional probability scores to the following words a and I . |
| 9 | ( i.e. they chose between so and sew after so/sew a . ) |
| 10 | This crystal lets polarised light through only when held at certain angles . |
| 11 | We left there soon after 3pm and had a lovely ride through the counryside to one of our favourite haunts , Heaven Farm , near Uckfield . |
| 12 | The term was coined by Thomas More in his Utopia ( 1516 ) and is compounded from the Greek for not and place — literally " noplace " . |
| 13 | He probably paid a month 's wages for tonight and look , he wasted most of it on the mattress . |
| 14 | However , having said that , CEEFAX reckoned that Speed and Pemberton are out for tonight and state that Rocky and Hodges should get a look in . |
| 15 | Because we , we have a large amount of cash which it suits us to get rid of rather than take it to the bank er to be added up and charged for cash handling . |
| 16 | But can you think of anyone who stands out as being somebody who really does their bit and yet does it possibly with humility or erm I 'm thinking of rather than saying sort of a general terminology of sort of Prime Ministers or what have you , erm I 'm thinking if you can think of a a particular person ? |
| 17 | Where and actually sort of rather than saying this is our manifesto and you know our policy promises it 's lacking excitement on our general policy . |
| 18 | It 's a pity in a way that we did n't have this discussion before , because I do think it 's important and I think parties these days , goodness knows what we 're matching is to , should be a bit and they want more , sort of less than putting in less fifty percent . |
| 19 | The integration over involves only and on the assumption of overall fibre symmetry ( a case common in polymers in the fibrous form ; but not , of course , necessarily so in the sheet or bulk forms ) we can assume that is a function of only and integrate over — and also over . |
| 20 | Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent . |
| 21 | Thus greatfully would be flagged as a misspelling of gratefully and prehaps as a misspelling of perhaps . |
| 22 | month of December was sort of off and trying to do odd things and then she went down with this , this flu er which was progressively worse since the new year . |
| 23 | And when Reeve tapped towards mid-off and ran , sailor 's roll turned into effective hustle as Watson gathered and threw down the keeper 's stumps with Gooch still well short . |
| 24 | Such bits and pieces considered as perquisites could either be disposed of directly or worked up into articles to be sold . |
| 25 | By laser treatment and radiotherapy we aimed to achieve the benefits of both while minimising complications . |
| 26 | She turned the volume down instead of up and went to the door , which she 'd dutifully bolted and chained . |
| 27 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 28 | It has produced an overwhelming and fairly cultish New York knowledge of up and coming British bands . |
| 29 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |
| 30 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |