Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As it turned out , she was able to tell the experts more than they could tell her . |
| 3 | We 'll keep the crowds back as you wash your dirty linen in public . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 7 | It 's the beginning of the programmes rather than the end . |
| 8 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 9 | We heard him talking , but heard no response , so we guessed that he was on the phone to one of the chefs rather than just moaning to George . |
| 10 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 11 | Anyone who dreads the hairdressers more than the dentists can be guaranteed a warm welcome at Greys with free advice available . |
| 12 | From his wrinkled face and sunburned skin he looked as though he had risen from the ranks rather than graduating from Saint Cyr or the Ecole Militaire . |
| 13 | In this case , he plays down Judas and his followers as " a little help " , and even suggests that some of these followers had joined the ranks not because they believed in their cause , but under false pretences . |
| 14 | In her view , a liberal education was the birthright of every child and she tried hard to persuade the Board of Education that any form of continuing education should be based on the humanities rather than on technical training . |
| 15 | If we discontinue supplies , we will be hindering the Reds more than the Blues . |
| 16 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 17 | Plaintiffs will need to inform the courts immediately if they receive payment from the defendant before the hearing . |
| 18 | Such restrictive terms will be upheld by the courts only if they are reasonable , such as when a computer programmer working for a bank agrees not to work for another similar bank within a five mile radius for the first year following the termination of his employment . |
| 19 | This question has occupied the courts more than any other raised by the whole subject of expert determination . |
| 20 | Some of the early prisoners had regarded the Germans much as , afterwards in the pavilion , one might regard the football team to whom one had lost the match . |
| 21 | For this the British and French between them lost in the region of 600,000 men ; the Germans more than 440,000 . |
| 22 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 23 | The owners of parrots Billy and Milly have been told to keep the birds indoors after neighbours complained of noise . |
| 24 | From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted . |
| 25 | They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out . |
| 26 | I daresay he 's used the Guardians more than once , ’ he added , eating cheese with composure . |
| 27 | The final chapter describes 57 actual procedures for preparing and using various oxidation reagents , and the emphasis is very much on the synthetic usefulness of the reactions rather than on their mechanisms . |
| 28 | Erm and again I put erm things about putting details in the post although you , although you did try and overcome that one erm but you , you just could n't , you could n't get Steven to realize the benefit of you actually going round with the illustrations rather than you just sending it and you needed to get , to get the appointment out of him rather than because if he got the illustrations in the post he may never read them . |
| 29 | I entered the woods just as three mortar explosions occurred in quick succession , somewhere in the trees a short distance away . |
| 30 | He was one of the men who knew that the Surveyor of the Queen 's Pictures , Sir Anthony Blunt , had been recruited by the Russians long before he confessed in 1964 . |