Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Friar was somewhere in the forest visiting an acquaintance ; he had decided to do that rather than sit here in the young sun and sleep . |
| 2 | Decide why you did that rather than meeting A. Starter : A says , " Where were you last night ? " |
| 3 | It is different in that rather than lose V1 altogether in favour of V2 , the London speakers of Creole use V2 alongside V1 . |
| 4 | All that rather than allow him to marry me ? |
| 5 | That rather than making a block grant for somebody because we know they do a good job , that we do more directly relate that to services they 're providing to us and output . |
| 6 | Was that so as to cast doubt on Googol 's word ? |
| 7 | Initially girls would waste a lot of time being polite to one another rather than getting things done : too polite to choose a chief and get down to work . |
| 8 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 9 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 10 | The temptation is always to deny this rather than confront it , to revert to plans on paper , stick with the safe rather than the exciting even if , at the end of the day with this route , little is achieved . |
| 11 | I am not certain that time and rehabilitation is not the best for this rather than sedating them . |
| 12 | To a Marxist-Leninist , control of resources is power ; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it . |
| 13 | Yes , Mr Smith did , and lie was prepared to face this rather than accept a worsening of conditions . |
| 14 | If so , why did you do this rather than selling your unwanted items and then buying the items you wanted ? |
| 15 | Living should always be like this rather than drudge and more drudge . |
| 16 | Coleridge himself can not have failed to make the calculation that of four marriageable Fricker sisters , one was married to Robert Lovell , and another all but engaged to Southey . |
| 17 | Foucault argues that a whole series of movements since the nineteenth century , including various anthropologizing Marxisms , have developed complicitly with this so as to preserve the sovereignty of the subject against Marx 's and others ' decentrings : positivism , the Hegelian Marxism of Lukács , the Marxist humanism of Sartre , as well as various theories of cultural totalities such as that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 18 | It may be helpful to bend down to do this so as to minimize the strain on your back , especially with a heavy dog . |
| 19 | This does not appear to be altogether necessary , having regard to the grade of the inclines , but possibly the condition of the bond has induced them to add this so as to prevent the semblance of a hang to the descending tank . |
| 20 | The aim of structural fire precautions is to limit the spread of fire within the building or from one building to another so as to minimize the risk to life . |
| 21 | I watched a girl in front of me trying to hop from one patch to another so as to avoid ducking the two strips of leather somebody had sold her as shoes . |
| 22 | We shall return to this shortly when seeking a measure of infinitesimal strain . |
| 23 | Work this out as follows . |
| 24 | We can express this mathematically as follows : since where qV is the heat absorbed at constant volume . |
| 25 | They were based on textbook questions , some almost as printed , but slightly altered to make political points . |
| 26 | Lord Justice went on , quote , I agree with this indeed when making the calculations the judge had to make , those who die early are the only ones which matter because the fact of living longer than the expectation is immaterial . |
| 27 | Do this too where pipe runs are held rigidly by pipe clips , and remove any clips close to right-angled bends to allow the pipe to expand freely . |
| 28 | Do this too where pipe runs are held rigidly by pipe clips , and remove any clips close to right-angled bends , to allow the pipe to expand without constraint . |
| 29 | Augustus kept his own , and , moderating the custom of his Republican predecessors , displayed some publicly while reserving a few items for private enjoyment . |
| 30 | For some reason she found that just as unnerving . |