Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them . |
| 2 | These are reasons for recording rather than simply performing to the class but would n't audio recording do just as well ? |
| 3 | Just enough time for a reverse-charge call , and an excuse for getting away if the conversation began to get awkward . |
| 4 | Richard became homeless and an alcoholic after leaving home because of constant rows . |
| 5 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |
| 6 | Harvest the flower spikes for drying just as the flowers begin to unfold . |
| 7 | People living in Marl Drive staged a demonstration after waiting more than 18 hours for council workers to come to their assistance . |
| 8 | They are written in terms of what the student is able to demonstrate as a result of learning rather than in terms of what a student will have to do to achieve the competences . |
| 9 | The two most important factors about sexual relations are : Fulfilling sexual relations are the result of giving rather than getting . |
| 10 | This one in front has obviously got a fear of going more than forty miles an hour that 's for sure oh |
| 11 | Some had no intention of meeting more than two hours , three times a year . |
| 12 | I had no intention of marrying early when I came to this town . |
| 13 | Given the lack of development in many rural areas it is not surprising that the dependency of rural workers on agriculture for employment has remained , nor that so many school-leavers take a job on the land even though they have no intention of remaining there if the choice to leave should present itself . |
| 14 | In times past , the defilers of virginity and chastity [ suffered capital punishment ] as did their abettors since such men were not free of the crime of killing especially since virginity and chastity can not be restored . ’ |
| 15 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 16 | History , indeed , tends to show that public intervention can have the effect of reinforcing rather than curbing market excesses . |
| 17 | Growth rate is related to the eventual shell-size , the young of large-sized enclaves showing a capability of growing faster than the progeny from smaller-sized enclaves * . |
| 18 | Recently , composer-conductors like Pierre Boulez or Oliver Knussen have cajoled orchestras into playing better than they ever knew how , by extending their technique , especially in contemporary repertoire . |
| 19 | Not that she regretted her action in coming home when she had — she 'd waited all afternoon , for goodness ' sake , and then some . |
| 20 | In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president . |
| 21 | Indeed , it was the same social and economic variables ( low socio-economic status and powerlessness ) that ‘ explained ’ crime ( though in quite a different way — by increasing vulnerability to labelling rather than by increasing actual deviation ) . |
| 22 | ( It will entertain no hope of winning more than one because the STV , unlike the British system , does not magnify the effect of " swings " in electoral opinion ) . |
| 23 | Sir Edmond intended that the bulk of the work should fall upon his " right especial and tender loving friend " Sir Reginald Bray ; the other four executors — Geoffrey Downes of Pott Shrigley ; Thomas Rich , Mercer , his son-in-law ; John Shaa , his nephew ( but conventionally styled his " cousin " in the will ) ; and Julian , his wife — had the function of approving rather than initiating . |
| 24 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 25 | PARIS — The wave of strikes that has gripped France for a month showed some signs of abating yesterday as prison officers agreed to go back to work , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 26 | ‘ Charlotte Graham-Watson was almost born on skis in Verbier and probably has more experience of skiing there than anyone else ! ’ |
| 27 | If the weather pattern was as uncertain as it was in her own country , she should take the opportunity of going there while the sky remained unclouded and the clear air of the city simmered with a body-relaxing warmth . |
| 28 | In its latter aspect the theory can be seen as a formalization , in associative terms , of the very reasonable suggestion that a stimulus is likely to receive a full measure of processing only when its occurrence is unexpected ( i.e. not predictable on the basis of other , usually contextual , cues ) . |
| 29 | Ernst & Young 's former marketing partner Andrew Oakley has been expelled from the Institute after misappropriating more than £300,000 of firm funds between January and October 1991 . |
| 30 | Words have areas of meaning rather than precise points of meaning . |