Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [subord] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 2 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |
| 3 | A major difficulty is likely to be that doctors are usually on the side of giving support rather than receiving it and will probably find it difficult to recognise their own needs . |
| 4 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 5 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 6 | Were such a proof to be successfully produced , moreover — in other words if Anselm were shown to be right — then from our point of view such a success would undermine faith rather than establish it . |
| 7 | Prudent homeowners build their houses on continuous foundations rather than rest them on pier blocks from which they can be bucked when the big shake comes . |
| 8 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 9 | Thus , in the United States unionisation must precede collective bargaining rather than following it since extensions of negotiating rights take place at plant or company level , on an individual and piecemeal basis , and often have to be secured against adamant employer resistance . |
| 10 | She should be blessing her young sister rather than cursing her , she thought wryly . |
| 11 | Above all , he insisted on reducing the revenue support grant rather than increasing it , which is what all of us said was necessary to soften the blow . |
| 12 | Adorno 's preference for ‘ immanent method ’ — analysing and evaluating works in terms of the implications , the immanent tendencies , of their own mode of existence rather than approaching them comparatively — means that , having set his criteria for ‘ autonomous bourgeois music ’ from his interpretation of Beethoven , he exports those criteria to all music of the period and finds the rest of it wanting . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the highest form of devotion , you know , to want to end somebody 's existence rather than let them live on without you . |
| 14 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 15 | Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists . |
| 16 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 17 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 18 | Mentally handicapped people were first admitted to mental hospitals as a policy of segregation at a time when it was thought most prudent to contain such people in institutions rather than permit them to roam freely in society . |
| 19 | My view is , and it 's been all along , that that will put pressure on your budget rather than decrease it , because it will tend to emphasise high cost residential er , solution . |
| 20 | Reliability in supplies : It is likely that a firm has greater control over reliability of supplies if it makes a component rather than buying it in from another firm . |
| 21 | Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm . |
| 22 | Both David and Steve will have objective views rather than tell me what I want to hear . ’ |
| 23 | Similarly , structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them . |
| 24 | They are more interested in tending the cow rather than milking it — the cow being the national economy . |
| 25 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 26 | But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment ! |
| 27 | The right hon. Gentleman wants people to let him spend their money rather than spending it themselves . |
| 28 | If your publishing operation does n't typeset at all then desktop publishing is going to cost you money rather than save it — at least in the initial stages . |
| 29 | Secondly , even though static analysis of the sort featured in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 may point to the stimulating effect of price reductions , dynamic considerations such as the effects of bankruptcy and default during the process of price deflation may serve to tighten the grip of recession rather than loosen it . |
| 30 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |