Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be comforting to see the balance of power in the hands of the defence rather than the offence — but there is no assurance it would stay there . |
| 2 | David Green , Passenger Manager was absolutely thrilled with the response even though it meant adding extra coaches to some trains especially the 18.00 departure on Sunday . |
| 3 | The current cell state determines the response rather than the particular signal . |
| 4 | After a flight to the east , meetings should take place in the latter half of the daytime rather than in the morning by new local time . |
| 5 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 6 | Snow lay on the park outside as Miranda showed her new house in Cumberland Terrace to fashion editor Annie Trehearne . |
| 7 | The flyer describes the park emotively as ‘ the execution place of Serbian people in World War II ’ , but such sectarianism is completely alien to Bogdanovic 's way of thinking . |
| 8 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 9 | It seems that the stewards at the transfer gate to the east stand carried on selling tickets to the stand long after it was obviously full . |
| 10 | On past records , most waverers go for the challenger rather than the one who holds power . |
| 11 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 12 | As it turned out , she was able to tell the experts more than they could tell her . |
| 13 | As might be expected this resulted in the reduction rather than the elimination of disparities between the samples , some of the problems being discussed below . |
| 14 | They should also use the term ‘ ease ’ the glider out of the dive rather than ‘ pull ’ it out . |
| 15 | Over the next few years Yakovlev continued to design and build a variety of successful single-engined biplanes and monoplanes and in July 1934 he was given a derelict bed factory on Moscow Leningradski Prospekt where he set up his own OKB and this has remained the headquarters ever since and also now holds the Museum . |
| 16 | It would be better to make the discharge below the level of the grating of the gully even if it was over the gully before , to prevent leaves and garden debris blocking the gully . |
| 17 | ‘ I have lately become very aware of the spiritual side of life , ’ Brian tells the NME just before his head explodes trying to make a follow-up . |
| 18 | Can I encourage the Minister to do the double by restoring the funding so as to enable much-needed house building and repairs to go ahead , and at the same time give the necessary financial boost to the devastated building and construction industry ? |
| 19 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 20 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 21 | Cut out your embryo bud as before , but this time squaring off the base rather than the top of the shield . |
| 22 | Another form of sun-clock employing the direction rather than the length of the sun 's shadow was the sundial , but the Egyptians who invented it were far from understanding the subtleties involved in making an accurate instrument of this type , which must be calibrated for the latitudes of the different places where it is to be used . |
| 23 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 24 | According to the crew of a USAF storm-tracking WC-130 Hercules which penetrated the eye of the hurricane just before it struck Homestead , peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars . |
| 25 | The results are quite accurate provided that care is taken to prevent small plant segments adhering to the belt and being carried past the sensor more than once . |
| 26 | And environmental tidiness may cost the Pentagon more than had been planned . |
| 27 | She felt the shivers again as she ate her meal and frequently looked up to find him watching her , his eyes on the glitter of her silvery hair . |
| 28 | the P E teacher is supposedly collecting aluminium cans and we 've been through various daft schemes of stopping the children from throwing the cans everywhere because we 've got this coke machine . |
| 29 | I moved away from the bus post , they needed the support more than I did . |
| 30 | Firstly , the choice would be that of the GP rather than the consumer , and secondly , it is felt that the implied travelling to receive services would limit freedom . |