Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its buildings were functional , housing engineering plant , looms , rope works and warehouses rather than the genteel families of Georgian businessmen . |
| 2 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 5 | We shall look at these functions in a moment , but it will be useful to think in terms of certain places in the landscape being the foci for single activities rather than a whole range of functions . |
| 6 | In North East Wales fireplaces are found on sidewalls rather than the upper end of the hall against the gable , as in South East Wales . |
| 7 | Recent reports indicate that only 100 houses rather than the projected 200 per annum have been provided which suggests a rather slow take-off ( Gilg 1981 , p. 110 ) . |
| 8 | By the mid century respectable citizens were thoroughly alarmed at this revolutionary alliance , by then in the hands of the radical agitators and journalists of the cheap lodging houses rather than the instrument of conspirators in the clubs and lodges . |
| 9 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 10 | It 's the beginning of the programmes rather than the end . |
| 11 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 12 | Lastly , a station resembles the old religions rather than the new religions in this point , that people go to it . |
| 13 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 14 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 15 | The use of the RAWP formula also tends to rigidify the allocation of resources between different specialisms , and thus reflects past expenditure patterns rather than an explicit assessment of needs . |
| 16 | For the first time , money purchase schemes have been allowed to contract out ( i.e. pension schemes that depend on the outcome of investments rather than a formula based on contributions ) . |
| 17 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 18 | We believe that power stations should be fitted with clean coal technology and that energy taxes should be based upon emissions rather than the use of a particular fuel . |
| 19 | They were all sniffed at by the uniformed nannies , who wheeled old-fashioned perambulators rather than the canvas collapsibles . |
| 20 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 21 | At the time of writing , the Soviet republics are declaring independence at the rate of about one a day and it must be open to question whether the entries will come from the separate states rather than the USSR next time . |
| 22 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 23 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 24 | He invited a non-native English speaker , one who could cast his net across several disciplines and one who would agree to talk freely from notes rather than the traditional script . |
| 25 | Cost of sales is also adjusted to reflect these deductions , except that only equal annual charges for debt service are deducted so as to spread the financing costs over the remaining lives of the respective sales contracts rather than the uneven repayment schedules established for the loans . |
| 26 | To the side of the sink , under the draining-board , were half-empty sacks and bags which contained cereals , wood shavings and what looked like the sort of seeds you feed to birds rather than the ones you roll with tobacco . |
| 27 | First , it will concentrate on the images on coins rather than the inscriptions . |
| 28 | They include non-work-related tasks to enable groups to focus on the process skills rather than the task skills . |
| 29 | As we can not use an anharmonic force field in the analysis , it may seem preferable to work with idealized harmonic frequencies rather than the observed vibration frequencies , which include anharmonic contributions . |
| 30 | NARA has had difficulty defining itself programmatically because members who are part of denomination staffs struggle primarily with their own immediate projects rather than the more distant and less easily defined communication tasks of WACC . |