Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] the " 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 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's the beginning of the programmes rather than the end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lastly , a station resembles the old religions rather than the new religions in this point , that people go to it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were all sniffed at by the uniformed nannies , who wheeled old-fashioned perambulators rather than the canvas collapsibles . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | First , it will concentrate on the images on coins rather than the inscriptions . |
| 20 | They include non-work-related tasks to enable groups to focus on the process skills rather than the task skills . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Tony Davies attests to the continuing force even in the 1980s of the " fluid and contradictory debris of discursive fragments which surrounds such limp , but none the less coercive , questions as " Well , what do you think of this then ? " 150 It seems that what continues largely to hold these fragments together are those practically-embedded assumptions into which Barbara Hardy , in her strict attention to the humdrum interactions rather than the more formal discursive superstructure , offers a degree of insight unusual for writings on English in higher education . |
| 24 | That 's right but I think j I think just the fact that you 're doing psychology and then psychology again in a way I think that 's the pr I agree with you , what you 're really saying is , I mean how many people would object , or how many people would prefer to have the straight two hours rather than the two single hours ? |
| 25 | Whether course of employment in a particular statute should include a tea break or the trip to work may be better decided by a tribunal staffed with a lawyer chairman and ‘ wing ’ members representing the interests of trade unionists and employers rather than the ordinary courts . |
| 26 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 27 | Industrial policy is usually linked to promotion of exports rather than the protection of the domestic market per se . |
| 28 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 29 | Negative campaigning ( the concentration of campaign resources upon the discrediting of opponents rather than the presentation of policy initiatives ) had become a national issue , with widespread criticism of George Bush 's 1988 presidential election campaign . |
| 30 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |