Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at it quite philosophically , seeing poaching as an irritant but also as an inevitable occurrence ; in headhunting , all 's fair in love and war . |
| 2 | Although situated near an industrial area , its location on the banks of the Tennant Canal makes it a tranquil and memorable site . |
| 3 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 4 | And in my experience , this sort of transcendence is not involved in anorexia nervosa , where the material world has to be grappled with and controlled , rather than dismissed as an ultimate unreality . |
| 5 | The realist approach , although developed as an extension of the functional positivist approach , attempted to probe beyond the relationships derived from observed regularities and to seek the mechanisms and underlying structures which are responsible for the operation of environmental processes . |
| 6 | For example , electronic ignition is a lot simpler than struggling with an old distributor . |
| 7 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 8 | It is easier to stop doing something than to continue with an activity but with greater efficiency . |
| 9 | Although summarized as an alcohol education course , the sessions are not just concerned with giving information but also with enabling participants to make practical use of it . |
| 10 | Rather than wait for an employment appeal tribunal , they went on strike . |
| 11 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 12 | ‘ Science ’ became rather more flexible around 1870 , when organised labour looked like becoming a permanent actor on the industrial scene , rather than appearing in an occasional brief walk-on part . |
| 13 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 14 | Once again it is more important to explore the problem with students than to come to an answer . |
| 15 | The one hope is that Sir Patrick Mayhew will finally deliver on his promise to give the talks process ‘ direction and focus ’ , rather than act as an interested observer . |
| 16 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 17 | Although defeated as an independent candidate at Mile End in January 1916 , he achieved success two months later at another parliamentary by-election in East Hertfordshire . |
| 18 | A nearby resident said : ‘ I think it 's terrible — no better than listening with an ear to a keyhole . ’ |
| 19 | But for de Man the difference between literature and criticism is delusive , and writing about a book is no less a process of invention than writing about an imaginary world . |
| 20 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |
| 21 | That a village should be created , rather than grow from an organic root , such as a river ford , or a crossing of forest paths , would surely have drawn a mot from him . |
| 22 | In September 1857 , shortly after the return from Osborne , the Emperor arranged to meet the Tsar in person at Stuttgart , clearly hoping that a face-to-face encounter might be more productive than acting through an intermediary . |
| 23 | This leaves the school in the weak position of reacting to opinion rather than acting as an opinion former . |
| 24 | Despite the shortcomings , Tony Stuart 's book more than succeeds as an up-to-date review of the distribution and significance of British Pleistocene vertebrates . |
| 25 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 26 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 27 | " People are more likely to be struck by lightning than bitten by an adder . |
| 28 | If someone has special talents or interests , ask them to run sessions for other residents rather than getting in an outsider . |
| 29 | Rather than striving for an impossible , and ultimately sterile , objectivity , scholars will increasingly need to follow Mary Louise Pratt 's example in admitting their own ideological commitments in order to promote the development of research . |
| 30 | In particular , a firm undertaking FDI needs a firm-specific advantage ( e.g. a brand name of a patent ) , which it prefers to exploit itself rather than license to an existing domestic producer . |