Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 2 | The divisions are certainly latent , but the very manner in which , especially since President Muawad 's assassination , Syria has been trying to enforce the peace plan — with such haste , threats and bluster — tends to blunt rather than sharpen them . |
| 3 | It was significant that Tsongas decided to suspend rather than terminate his campaign , as it underlined the doubts which remained concerning Clinton . |
| 4 | ‘ It may be that those involved in the sale of gilt options did not realise that they actually increased the risk to which the council was exposed rather than reducing it . ’ |
| 5 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 6 | So how do you just I mean rather than do it in your head , especially in an exam , just what you 're going to do , put the Add X to both sides say . |
| 7 | The order for discovery is often the point of no return for the plaintiff in a libel action : it is the stage at which some prefer to discontinue rather than to open their files . |
| 8 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 9 | If there is an existing pipe organ and it is of good quality , it may prove to be more economical in the long run to restore rather than replace it . |
| 10 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 11 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 12 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |
| 13 | Without such a review there is a serious danger that existing documentation problems may simply be automated along with the data , thus perpetuating rather than resolving them . |
| 14 | Now I 'm going to go inside and get myself a drink , ’ he announced , ‘ and then we are going to go over to the far field where there 's a modicum of peace and we are going to look at these plans together , OK ? ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't see the exiles and émigrés banding together and achieving anything of importance but limited media coverage . ’ |
| 16 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 17 | Resistance does not operate outside power , nor is it necessarily produced oppositionally : it is imbricated within it , the irregular term that consistently disturbs it , rebounds upon it , and which on occasions can be manipulated so as to rupture it altogether : |
| 18 | ‘ My big hope is that they will stay together and fulfil their ambition with Leeds . ’ |
| 19 | Very simply , the theory behind this is that any product has some characteristic which can be developed so as to make it unique in its class . |
| 20 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 21 | He and Crawford got together and organized their own stage act , which included a few of their own songs . |
| 22 | The rules of the Young Communist League were altered so as to widen its membership " not only to those who support its stated policy and aims , but also to those who , while not being actively hostile to its policy and aims , wish to study Socialism " . |
| 23 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 24 | Surprisingly , it helped rather than threatened his self-control . |
| 25 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 26 | look at and browse and take the information that they want rather than putting what sounds to me a lot of work on some |
| 27 | On the other we have Forey asserting that ‘ Fossils have clouded rather than clarified our attempts to reconstruct phylogeny . ’ |
| 28 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
| 29 | Edward had had to defer rather than abandon his plans , however , and in 1356 he sent Lancaster to Normandy with a small force of no more than 1,000 archers and 1,400 men-at-arms , which included supporting contingents from Normandy and from the Breton garrisons . |
| 30 | Gradually , by walking slowly and shielding her from the wind as much as possible with my body , I cut the wings-open time to a minimum . |