Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English , for Hirsch , is basically to do with educational and cultural values , helping ‘ to provide the myths and values we live by ’ , rather than generating ever new and more narrowly directed interpretations . |
| 2 | Nothing is more touching and sad than to see how these people — cast out and despised by everyone including their kin , living in and for their regular ‘ balls ’ where they compete to dress up to act out , for a moment , the roles they would like to play in real life , and know they ca n't — reconstruct their own human groups . |
| 3 | It is just a shame we do n't treat our fellow human beings so well , rather than allowing so many to go hungry . |
| 4 | Hall ( 1987 ) argues that most regulation is simply added on to existing frameworks ( often as the result of specific frauds or crises ) rather than building up new systems , and that the efficiency of regulation suffers as a result and costs escalate . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that the government has greater calls on its meagre resources than building more comfortable prisons , the physical plant of the prisons has been steadily improved . |
| 6 | Try to stick to the subject of the row rather than bringing up 25 years ' worth of misdemeanours . |
| 7 | More is involved than bringing forward new policies and programmes : it means … improving the efficiency of the machinery intended to achieve the aims it sets itself … |
| 8 | Rather than bringing about increased skills portability , YTS has proved instrumental in bringing about a sharpening of labour market segmentation , as the conditions surrounding entry to jobs at all levels has become more formalized and rigidified . |
| 9 | To argue now for its prioritization means no more than demanding as much attention be given to it as there is to street crimes . |
| 10 | Watch out that the charges under these arrangements do not more than eat up any advantage . |
| 11 | It may well become obvious that more can be gained from tiny hooks and tiny fish than using more orthodox tackle and regarding undersize fish as as nuisance . |
| 12 | Yet , rather than think out new and just ways of distributing the riches to which we have all fallen heir , it uses those riches as the basis for deadly quarrels . |
| 13 | It is more helpful to meet real people who have come to terms with their lives , than to wander around lost and alone in a maze of fantasies . |
| 14 | The optimum situation would be a policy that would force the TNCs to train young people rather than entice away those already trained and working in the domestic sector . |
| 15 | In authentic discourse , titles sometimes serve to arouse interest by disguising rather than revealing either content or discourse type . |
| 16 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 17 | ‘ The Pacific Ocean , its shores , its islands , ’ he said , ‘ will become the great theatre of events in the world 's hereafter … henceforth European commerce , European thought and European connections , although becoming more intimate , will nevertheless sink in importance. , |
| 18 | In the context of conventional historiography , Foucault argues that the point is to analyse the different kinds of transformation , the complex ‘ play of dependencies ’ , links and redistributions , rather than to provide yet another account of change , succession and its causes . |
| 19 | So top up when you can , rather than stripping off old varnish and starting again . |
| 20 | We have a tremendous skill base at doing good due diligence work when all said and done due diligence work is really just a focussed audit approach and if we 've good auditors , we should jolly well and good er new diligence er provides and we to react to new diligence opportunities rather than seek out new diligence opportunities . |
| 21 | But as Navratilova , although looking somewhat shaky , recovered to win the next two sets 6-3 , 6-4 , to complete the victory over Spain , there was no stealing Evert 's thunder . |
| 22 | The position could be eased slightly , said Mr Hampton , if the council were to stage the increase rather than bring in one huge rise . |
| 23 | Again , you need to make the hand do the telling , rather than bring in any extra information from outside . |
| 24 | Although written around 1390 , very little changed until the arrival of oil in the late 1400s : technical analysis of Sassetta 's paintings shows that he used methods very close to those described by Cennini . |
| 25 | It seemed more suitable to employ the legal form of the trust than to set up private joint-stock companies to " own " the roads . |
| 26 | These differences must relate to the function of the individual structures , though it is not clear how many were available to the local communities rather than serving otherwise unattested official uses . |
| 27 | The results , with one notable exception , were to make improvements to earlier discoveries like radar and jet propulsion , rather than to create totally new techniques or weapons . |
| 28 | The board is lifting the interim dividend from 12p last time to 12.5p after what it calls ‘ a larger increase in pre-tax revenue than seemed likely six months ago ’ . |
| 29 | But , as with geriatric anxiety , the treatment involves more than developing less attached relationships . |
| 30 | Labour housing spokesman Coun George Davies said : ‘ I ca n't see any other way forward than to sell off further land . |