Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short-term monitoring rather than forecasting is still the main emphasis . |
| 2 | At bottom , this critique revolves around the feeling that many groups of professionals ( in our case teachers ) are organised around professional skills rather than client needs . |
| 3 | Some historians have criticised Gladstone 's earlier period of office for reforming institutions rather than society . |
| 4 | Sainsbury 's , ranking 17 in The Times 1000 with 82 000 employees , when considering appointing a senior departmental director , chose to use headhunters for ‘ political reasons rather than convenience or speed ’ because they could then be informed in detail about the market for candidates . |
| 5 | The important question , however , is why high capital intensity is associated with lower ROI even when market share is high . |
| 6 | It focusses on small-scale interaction rather than society as a whole . |
| 7 | NCP leases the car park above Presto in East Street , Darlington , from the local authority which recommended the upper deck be closed eight months ago after crash barriers were discovered to be unsafe . |
| 8 | It was still , however , dynastic and political considerations rather than religion which began drawing Picts and Scots into a closer relationship . |
| 9 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
| 10 | Because the stack is such a common programming device for retaining intermediate results in the right order ( for arithmetic calculation , syntactic analysis , subroutine and interrupt entry and return , etc. ) , many modern computers provide facilities for manipulating a stack , even though they are basically one-address computers rather than zero-address like the KDF9 and Burroughs computers . |
| 11 | ‘ The qualities required in the Chairman and members were tact and sound judgement rather than energy and administrative ability , ’ he told the Cabinet . |
| 12 | If person A is given an overdraft and then draws a cheque on the account and pays it to person B , person B's bank account has been credited and he or she can draw this money even though person A never deposited the money in the first place . |
| 13 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |
| 14 | The thegns lived in increasing grandeur but in wooden halls rather than masonry villas ; although tapestried and heated by a central fire they must have been both dirty and draughty . |
| 15 | Many of them therefore tended to favour the single-party governments produced by two-party-dominated systems of the American or British type rather than coalition governments , however accurately the latter might reflect the " pluralistic and diverse " character of society . |
| 16 | Besides , the temperature would continue to rise over the next few decades even if greenhouse gases stayed as they are , simply because the world is so slow to warm up , and has not yet responded to what is there already . |
| 17 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
| 18 | We re-emphasise this limitation now because CD-ROM is the evolutionary starting point for CD multimedia systems and its ‘ speed of light ’ underlies the greatest single technological challenge in multimedia development . |
| 19 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 20 | ‘ Tennis is one of my favourite sports now because tennis people , in general , are perfect gentlemen and ladies . ’ |
| 21 | In this way , even if the pupil does finally reject the Church 's teaching , at least it will be on the basis of informed opinion rather than emotion , bias or misunderstanding . |
| 22 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 23 | 6 Light travels faster than sound . |
| 24 | I think I would be a very different person now if orange juice and milk and dinners at school had n't told me , in a covert way , that I had a right to exist , was worth something . |
| 25 | In both cases it was the development of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia rather than fibrillation which was prognostic and it would seem that ventricular fibrillation is a non-specific response to PVS dependent on the " " vigour " " of the protocol . |
| 26 | The earth thickened and made different sounds underfoot as ash gave way to elm . |
| 27 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 28 | He has valued the sexual instinct more than action , while others kill and maim to allow his debased relationship to continue . |
| 29 | ‘ But why so many British ladies ? ’ asked the young German student bemusedly as 60–odd enthusiasts of all ages tumbled off the coach at the Medau College in Coburg . |
| 30 | The perception that disability is age-related ultimately influences the take-up rate of these benefits , for many older frail people fail to claim allowances to which they are entitled because they assume that their problems result from old age rather than disability . |