Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 2 | Police and army behaviour and tactics had been improved to some extent , especially in appreciating the need for reform policies rather than simple oppression . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 5 | Proof that these outbursts are overflow or vacuum activities rather than pathological fits can be found by comparing the indoor behaviour of hard-living rural cats , with that of lap-of-luxury town cats . |
| 6 | The concentration on wealth-generating activities rather than social programmes ; this was most apparent in the creation of enterprise zones . |
| 7 | They focus on social strata rather than social inequality in general . |
| 8 | And if firms are now hiring two part-timers rather than one full-timer , it may also explain why unemployment has started to fall earlier than expected . |
| 9 | If casual consumption of cocaine is down , it may well be the result of education and treatment programmes rather than criminal enforcement . |
| 10 | Government approvals now mainly apply to programmes rather than individual projects and relate to only one year at a time . |
| 11 | More generally , the " diglossia " paradigm tends to emphasise linguistic behaviour in terms of community norms rather than individual interactions which are orientated to those norms in a general way . |
| 12 | In fact , for personal or even health reasons rather than financial ones — you must take it . |
| 13 | Yet the commercial farmers can be forgiven for believing that the decision to buy the white farms has been taken for short-term political reasons rather than longer-term ones of efficiency or fairness . |
| 14 | Both Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher have appointed BBC chairmen for personal reasons rather than suitable qualifications , and in 1988 the Conservative Government was strongly condemned for appointing its political partisans Lord Rees-Mogg ( to the Chairmanship of the BSC ) and Lord Chalfont ( to the Deputy-Chairmanship of the IBA ) . |
| 15 | In order to reduce the likelihood of this happening Hearsay-II ( unlike HWIM ) used initial islands consisting of word pairs rather than single words . |
| 16 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , the first FRS to be based on the ASB 's own proposals rather than those ‘ inherited ’ from the Accounting Standards Committee , is based on FRED 1 and the comments received on the exposure draft . |
| 17 | This method of measuring distances between points on the Earth 's surface is similar to VLBI but uses signals from Earth-orbiting satellites rather than extraterrestrial radio sources . |
| 18 | Eventually , as the generalizations are built up ( and in this field of research there is still a long way to go ) a ‘ theory ’ of social aspects of theatre can be built which will be based on social empirical foundations rather than shaky speculation or sweeping generalizations . |
| 19 | Unlike in a firm that is a jack of all trades , the supplier is an independent business subject to market disciplines rather than another bit of a big bureaucracy . |
| 20 | It need not be surprising that his efforts involved thought experiments , analogies and illustrative metaphors rather than detailed experimentation . |
| 21 | This is particularly clear given that the result was also obtained using nonsense syllables rather than meaningful words ( Kleinsmith & Kaplan , 1964 ) . |
| 22 | We must eliminate any sources of broadening contributed by the instrument or sample , to ensure that narrow peaks rather than broad bands are present in the spectra . |
| 23 | For XOOX , on the other hand , the species is the only one that contains a mixture of isotopes , so that a sample made from scrambled dioxygen will give three peaks rather than four , and six peaks . |
| 24 | This determines the educational structures we must encourage emphasising wider contacts rather than local parochialism and the debate we think should take place around local social action . |
| 25 | The pilots nicknamed them ‘ gremlins ’ and felt , generally , that they were friendly pranksters rather than dangerous antagonists . |
| 26 | Models of interdependence deal with mutual vulnerability between states rather than shared vulnerability to global processes . |
| 27 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 28 | As in human warfare , chemical defences are essentially deterrents rather than everyday weapons . |
| 29 | The ideology of republicanism aroused some interest ; but it was thought of in terms of ancient history rather than contemporary politics , in terms of the world of Lycurgus , Solon and Pericles rather than that of Louis XV , Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 30 | Work on show will range from highly finished de luxe editions priced at several thousand pounds to the work of young artists and students , with some pieces resembling multiple art objects rather than straightforward books . |