Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you decide to design your own lace pattern , do remember that you must transfer to both left and right rather than in just one direction or you may finish up with a definite bias in your knitting . |
| 2 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 3 | It is indeed the case that both of these " new branches " professed an orthodox Arminian theology and regarded themselves as movements within rather than against the Church of England . |
| 4 | Such anger and defensiveness is commonplace and understandable because our society is accustomed to the stereotype pictures of alcoholism and drug or other addictions as disorders of weak-willed and immoral people who need to be taught firm lessons on how to behave themselves properly rather than as ill people who need to be helped to become well . |
| 5 | Similarly , the halt and lame , vividly portrayed in Les invalides in book 2 of the same collection ( 1716–17 ) , are surely destined to proceed slowly rather than at the ‘ fast triple time ’ suggested by Geoffrey Chew in the article ‘ Notation ’ ( 111 , 4 ) in New Grove , where the opening bars of this piece are reproduced in facsimile ( xiii , p.376 ) . |
| 6 | But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal . |
| 7 | At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance . |
| 8 | Rather than classes on directly social or political topics , the emphasis has been upon issue-based provision , in the first instance , as a means to develop work , where appropriate and possible , with a broader scope ( hence courses in Housing , Welfare Rights , Health Care , etc. rather than in Social Policy , Politics etc . ) . |
| 9 | Job losses additional to ‘ structural shifts ’ occurred because of the relative status , and often age of product , of branch factories within their respective multi-plant firms , and only rarely because of their absolute location in Britain . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , as Suwardjo ( 1986 ) has discussed , these programmes have not only caused accelerated soil erosion , which in Sumatra may amount to as much as per year , but also a loss of soil fertility , especially in areas cleared mechanically rather than by hand . |
| 11 | Sometimes you are more touched by a book that seems to belong to you alone rather than to the world . |
| 12 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |
| 13 | Best used alone rather than in mixed bedding , in rock gardens , containers , & clumps at front of borders . |
| 14 | Carers generally operate alone rather than in a large network and , as noted earlier , they are not a single group . |
| 15 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |
| 16 | Thus , in moral deliberation it is not necessarily a confusion of validity and truth to give weight to the way in which a decision is reached as well as or perhaps rather than to the content of the decision reached . |
| 17 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 18 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 19 | The problem is that the two may not change in tandem ; the first may need to change rapidly , while the latter change only slowly if at all . |
| 20 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 21 | I would have got them all right except for |
| 22 | He said this would be all right since on my return I should still be within the age limit for joining the Political Service . |
| 23 | But in the end it was all right because of Beuno . |
| 24 | Royal involvement in episcopal appointments suggests that the kings and their bishops were likely to work together rather than in opposition . |
| 25 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 26 | It occurred to him that he had reached the age when a man looks forward to his pleasures less keenly than in youth but is disproportionately aggrieved when his plans are upset . |
| 27 | ‘ I think lawyers have been too much looking from the law outwards rather than as a client looking at the law from the outside . |
| 28 | I think it comes from below rather than from above . |
| 29 | That failure owed as much to English inability to sustain their efforts for long enough as to successful Scottish resistance . |
| 30 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |