Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competency testing in high school , civil-service examinations , job-placement examinations , college-entrance examinations , and diagnostic testing in school have , as a result , been restrained , banned , or revised so as to reduce test accuracy . |
| 2 | Officials are particularly strict in the capital , Suva , where arriving yachts must wait at the quarantine buoy , or anchor nearby until visited by the medical officer . |
| 3 | These are covered by flaps projecting from the lower edge of the thorax that can be opened or closed so as to increase or dampen the sound like shutters on an organ . |
| 4 | Both were essentially seminaries — a majority of undergraduates went into the church in the first half of the century- and finishing schools , where teaching rather than research was the norm . |
| 5 | This is due to the seasonal nature of so much agricultural work , which makes it cheaper for the company to employ labourers during the planting or harvesting rather than maintain a labour force throughout the year . |
| 6 | Neither is there any sign that epithelial cells further from the leading edge are putting out lamellipodia or crawling forward as described in some adult systems . |
| 7 | Wash or scrub rather than scrape or peel : skins seal in flavour and food value . |
| 8 | You could use a bike , walk , or run rather than use a car , bus , or train . |
| 9 | They should not be handled or taken away if found . ’ |
| 10 | They express a certain mental stance to the world which others are invited to accept or reject just as do factual statements , and as mere imperatives , exclamations and interrogatives can not . |
| 11 | Reform tends now to be seen not as treatment which is imagined to work independently of the will of the offender , but as measures which enable or assist rather than force offenders to improve their behaviour — or , in Norval Morris ' terms , ‘ facilitated change ’ rather than ‘ coerced cure ’ ( Morris , 1974 : 13–20 ) . |
| 12 | While composers such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen condemned all manifestations of the museum culture , and Boulez suggested that opera houses should be burned down , the slender supply of new operas was left either to an older , impervious generation or to composers whose attitude to tradition was either complexly ambivalent ( Henze ) or had all but bypassed the modernist lineage ( Britten and Tippett ) . |
| 13 | Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 14 | We interpret everything that happens here as happening to the man we met in the living room who is now at a club . |
| 15 | This means that the baggy peasant look will be widely seen again : roomy , comfy clothes that look best when rumpled . |
| 16 | She precedes him rather than staying behind as befits a consort . |
| 17 | This is closely related to an absorption spectrum , but not identical to it , because the ‘ spectrum ’ recorded relates only to those molecules that fluoresce rather than losing energy in other ways . |
| 18 | Accompanying this personalised warfare , there returned a chivalry and a sporting instinct that had all but vanished with the advent of the army of the masses . |
| 19 | The data underline the fact that you are more likely to succeed with people if you think about your behaviour and select and use behaviours that help rather than hinder progress towards your objective . |
| 20 | His critical eye revels in the play and contrast of light on form composing the stark minimal images that have all but become his trade mark . |
| 21 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 22 | Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it . |
| 23 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Add the chicken breasts to the stock and simmer gently until cooked . |
| 26 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 27 | It aims to elaborate and refine rather than overturn ; it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 28 | Consent is represented as the critical feature of the law which ensures the patient 's right to self-determination , whereas , in fact , it is referred to and manipulated so as to produce the opposite result . |
| 29 | The implicit tax would thus rise and fall precisely as needed to counter speculative pressures . |
| 30 | It contains several rare species and is the home of Britain 's rarest spider , the great raft spider , which is known in only one other site in the UK ( at Pevensey in East Sussex ) and has all but disappeared elsewhere in Europe because of the draining of its fenland habitats . |