Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 32 | Had they taken it away so as to fool him ! |
| 33 | In Continental Can , the Court ruled that a company which already held a dominant position in the Common Market could be treated as exploiting it abusively so as to infringe Article 86 , if it strengthened its dominance by taking over a competitor . |
| 34 | In the Continental Can decision in 1973 the European Court held that a company which already held a dominant position in the Common Market or a substantial part of it could be treated as exploiting it abusively so as to infringe Article 86 , if it moved significantly towards monopoly by taking over a competitor . |
| 35 | On the rare occasions when people criticize you ( see Criticism on page 44 ) and offer you explicit feedback about your behaviour , accept it gratefully rather than springing to your own defence . |
| 36 | The police restricted the parade to the Falls area and the organising committee then called it off so as to avoid compromising the principle of working-class unity . |
| 37 | They come in and follow it up rather than preventing it . |
| 38 | Fill the chest with the chocolate coins , jewels and other treasure , piling it up so as to hide the chopstick in the corner . |
| 39 | This provides what Eo calls a simple ‘ pen and paper ’ -style intuitive interface that requires simple writing gestures rather than keyboard skills to operate — for instance to delete text you simply cross it out rather than entering a command . |
| 40 | Bitrex is the bitterest non-toxic substance known , and even a tiny drop will encourage children to spit it out rather than swallow it . |
| 41 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 42 | Clockwise can be confusing on faces that are away from you — I always treat it as clockwise when looking straight at the face . |
| 43 | Yeah I think it might be if you could just actually talk through it really rather than asking them to do it . |
| 44 | Dysart had referred to it often enough while working in Swindon . |
| 45 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 46 | And job situation maybe is that , but I think we should stay here and fight , and demand that we have the industries up here so that people from Scotland can stay and better , better theirselves here rather than move away . |
| 47 | He used it sometimes rather than go into the factory at Newbury . |
| 48 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 49 | In practice the risk of default of non repayment is nil so far as lending to the government is concerned . |
| 50 | The breakthrough will come when all these players in the tourism game begin to market themselves not just as providing value for money , but value for the environment . |
| 51 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 52 | In other words , my guard was now so strong that I would wake myself up rather than allow myself to eat , even in a dream . |
| 53 | It was a part of becoming adult that I grew aware of the great invisible universe of personality which controls us as surely as do physical laws . |
| 54 | Since our first arrival here , their Seductive Highnesses had flirted with us as consistently as had their father ensured that we were together only during public occasions . |