Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson attributed such decline in England to the fact that the bishops were now using other , more political rather than intellectual , methods of gaining preferment . |
| 2 | On the other side was the public sector , enjoying a monopolistic and low-risk position , responding to political rather than consumer preferences , and pre-empting investment funds from more productive areas . |
| 3 | Decisions on management structures may themselves be decided on political rather than efficiency grounds ( see Ch. 5 ) . |
| 4 | It therefore tends to be palliative rather than curative . |
| 5 | Orthodox medicines tend to be palliative rather than curative . |
| 6 | The woman was probably in her middle forties , with a body that looked strong rather than fat under the shapeless clothes , and a long lined face that had already done all the ageing it was likely to . |
| 7 | As with any relatively recent field of investigation , this conclusion needs to be viewed as interim rather than final . |
| 8 | In order to be given full credit as CPE , reading should be technical rather than general . |
| 9 | In addition , we know that most if not all of the public sector is subject to administrative rather than market forces and has its own peculiar system of industrial relations . |
| 10 | Progress was greater , for example , with developing management systems than with defining objectives , decentralization was developed more readily in field offices than in headquarters and policy divisions , and performance measurement applied more easily to inputs than outputs , and to administrative rather than programme expenditure . |
| 11 | Originally infers that the work is innovative rather than derivative , and that it has involved skill and creativity . |
| 12 | The animals need more energy to propel themselves if the water around them is turbulent rather than laminar and Blake predicts that dolphins are able to reach crossover speeds even if surrounded by a turbulent layer of water . |
| 13 | Bultmann too was happy to describe theology as ‘ faith seeking understanding ’ ; but what he meant by this was faith 's self -understanding , an understanding having to do with self-awareness and self-knowledge , subjective rather than objective . |
| 14 | These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective . |
| 15 | This integration was largely affective , for the most part forging psychological or emotional rather than material bonds . |
| 16 | Many of these works are in a poor state of conservation and would benefit , according to Mr Thompson , from a transfer into fresh ownership ( probably private rather than public , as Indian national museums are currently badly underfunded ) . |
| 17 | Overall , it seems fair to conclude that the right hemisphere does possess some word processing capacity , probably more so for the written than for the spoken word , for concrete or early-learned rather than abstract or later-learned words and for receptive rather than executive aspects of language . |
| 18 | St Lucia is volcanic rather than coral , so the terrain is much more rugged than that of Barbados . |
| 19 | Mr. Howell then argues backwards from this that if a school is over-subscribed so that section 6(3) ( a ) is in point , there is a duty not to have regard to preserving the school 's character in deciding priorities because the only permissible way of taking that into account is by section 6(3) ( b ) . |
| 20 | Secondly , section 6(3) ( b ) : even if the school is not over-subscribed so that section 6(3) ( a ) does not apply , governors may request the local education authority to make arrangements under section 6(6) and if they do the governors are not obliged to comply with any parental preferences incompatible with such arrangements . |
| 21 | The stress distribution in any ( except thin-walled cylindrical ) specimens is non-uniform so that torsion tests share with bend tests all the problems associated with non-uniform stresses and non-linear viscoelastic effects . |
| 22 | Teaching establishments should register their intention to seek accreditation for a new course as soon as possible so that Candidate Status may be approved and a provisional date for an accreditation visit booked . |
| 23 | Bringing up the fledglings necessitates a great deal of work in finding food , and polygyny , as we have seen , is possible only when food is exceptionally abundant under r conditions . |
| 24 | It was because of this that ‘ rest is possible only when fatigue demands it . |
| 25 | On the one hand , the Institute wishes to be seen as a professional body , and this is possible only where entry is restricted by academic qualification . |
| 26 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 27 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 28 | These US estimates tend to emphasize direct rather than opportunity costs , partly reflecting the lower level of welfare support especially for the higher education of children . |
| 29 | There is a school of thought that claims that the ghetto was cleared for commercial rather than health reasons . |
| 30 | Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) . |