Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sexes differed perhaps most conspicuously when voting for felines , and only the tiger attracted roughly equal proportions of votes from both sexes . |
| 2 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 3 | During a bright moon , headlights were kept off — otherwise they remained on only when driving on the road alone . |
| 4 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 5 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 6 | I noticed that the plastic Seayak bobbed up , over and down rather than cutting through the swell . |
| 7 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 8 | We have to view a stimulus for a finite time before it generates a perception , but that perception appears to us to occur instantaneously rather than fading into view like the Cheshire cat . ) |
| 9 | If a horse shies , he is fundamentally ignoring the rider 's inside leg , so rather than worrying about the horse shying , it is more important to concentrate on exercises which make the horse move away from the leg such as leg-yield , shoulder-in , enlarging and decreasing the circle . |
| 10 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 11 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 12 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 13 | Much better than sitting in pubs with young girls or even drinking with one 's colleagues , the hastily snatched pint of bitter before they caught their trains home to their wives . |
| 14 | Later , as we focused in on where the changes occurred , we were able to subdivide much further and according to more meaningful anatomical criteria . |
| 15 | And accordingly , listeners process acoustic information less carefully when dealing with predictable words . |
| 16 | In practice the risk of default of non repayment is nil so far as lending to the government is concerned . |
| 17 | Lawyers are adamant about the need to remain independent of the state so far as licensing for practice is concerned . |
| 18 | Editor , — In his comments on Richard Smith 's editorial on academic medicine Brian L Pentecost states that , so far as training for consultant practice in the NHS is concerned , all specialties accept one year of research towards higher medical training . |
| 19 | ‘ So far as working with composers is concerned , providing you do not alienate them , they become more relaxed and their advice is more balanced because there is no hierarchy . |
| 20 | At the lowest level in the TNC hierarchy , the operatives , there is clearly a reputational element at work , in so far as working for a company that has an international name appears to mean something positive for most people . |
| 21 | This is particularly so when it is remembered that the working parties are serviced by the DES , whose influence on a group of disparate experts meeting only intermittently and working under great pressure , is very considerable indeed . |
| 22 | ‘ Coming down here and talking to people is better than just looking at boards in a Jobcentre , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm spending the night down here and returning in the morning . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted . |
| 25 | Saying that is , unfortunately , much easier than calculating in hard cash terms exactly what you have lost . |
| 26 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 27 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 28 | A full house survey , where you brief your building surveyor individually rather than relying on the shorter though cheaper housebuyer 's report , can be an expensive matter . |
| 29 | If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) . |
| 30 | We can think of the electron not only as going through both slits but also as following paths both direct and indirect , moving both rapidly and slowly . |