Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin 's ( 1985 , p. 142 ) work on bringing up handicapped children indicates that grandparents often buy necessities such as food and clothing , and this can be vital to the finances of a household where having a handicapped child creates additional expense . |
| 2 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 3 | The List will now be available in areas e.g. ‘ Norfolk & Suffolk ’ ‘ London ’ ‘ Home Counties ’ etc. or where required a complete set of the whole country on receipt of a SAE or at Q.T. Day on 15th March . |
| 4 | ‘ Newspapers have promoted a witch hunt rather than reassure a worried public , ’ it says . |
| 5 | Although using a tinted background may not be the traditional mode for watercolour , you can achieve unique colour effects and moods . |
| 6 | Other instances of racial prejudice can be found in the fact that the church used by the black community is used by the white men as a gambling den in the week although using a white church for such purposes would not be allowed , if even thought of . |
| 7 | This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket . |
| 8 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 9 | In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors . |
| 10 | Rather than proving an insoluble methodological problem , these contradictions are , in fact , a key finding in the research . |
| 11 | This is usually more valuable than generating an allowable loss for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 12 | As table 3 shows , the key legal services used by businesses tend to be the sort that are need-driven — litigation , commercial property and employee legislation — rather than reflecting a broader and continuous relationship . |
| 13 | ‘ Surely people have better things to do than make a great song and dance about missing a dinner party . ’ |
| 14 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 15 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 16 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 17 | The reforms made the splits already present within the republican governments yet more defined and were used as tools to benefit the ruling regime , rather than build a broad democratic consensus . |
| 18 | I read a book by the American painter Charles Reid who said that rather than paint a dark background all round a daisy it is sometimes better to put just one dark drop of colour behind the vase of the petal to get the most impact . |
| 19 | Rather than suggesting a different incentive system , which would enable the agency to maintain at least some timber harvesting in many of the forests on the list , the agency is deliberately limiting its options . |
| 20 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 21 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 22 | It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface . |
| 23 | Rather than inventing a unique fictional world , it creates a recognisable reality that calls for accuracy . |
| 24 | In some schools , at any rate , this seems to have performed a rhetorical function in conforming to the guidelines , rather than producing a realistic statement of an established and developing provision . |
| 25 | Rather than producing a brave new economic world , the ECSC and its High Authority had constantly to wrestle with national objections and intransigence . |
| 26 | just as when reading a favourite novel , we create the people and places described as we see them , so we draw on our own images and imagination to enrich our inner world , rather than accepting an unknown intruder — the voice on the tape . |
| 27 | In 1987 the Community agreed to a package of measures which will create greater fare competition , will allow the airlines to increase market shares at each other 's expense ( rather than maintaining a rigid fifty/fifty split ) and will allow other airlines ( both from the bilateral partners and from other states ) to ply for trade on particular routes . |
| 28 | The idea of tailoring spreadsheet functions exactly to your specific requirements is much more attractive than building a cumbersome series of macros . |
| 29 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 30 | Will he use this opportunity to ask British Steel to consider modernising the Dalzell plate mill in Motherwell rather than building an expensive new plate mill , which would be less profitable for British Steel ? |