Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently SCP is attractive to some corporate depositors since it commonly carries an interest rate of Libid or better and diversifies the risk away from the banking sector . |
| 2 | The court will be disclined to construe a clause as excluding liability for deliberate breaches of contract or so as to defeat the whole object of the contract . |
| 3 | For a second day yesterday , snipers fired on peace protesters in the city , killing two or more and taking the number of casualties there since Sunday to at least 11 dead and more than 100 wounded . |
| 4 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 5 | While this issue has not been expressly considered , it seems fair to assume that rather than incur the risks inherent in giving the board so wide a discretion , and relying on the usually well-founded assumption that the shareholders ' dominant purpose is to increase their individual wealth , the court , at the price of some distortion , would define the interests of the members exclusively in terms of their personal financial well-being . |
| 6 | But if Dr Mumby 's right , Turtle fans may find that rather than helping the good guys , they could instead get a cow bunger clobbering from the Turtle team by turning into the baddies . |
| 7 | She might prefer to accept that rather than face the horror of the idea of her husband , the King of Scotland , being thrown into a pit among commoners . ’ |
| 8 | The chair of the Association , Vladimir Bashmachnikov , claimed , however , that rather than strengthening the network of private farms , the Russian leadership was destroying the collective farm system |
| 9 | One helpful critic suggested that rather than remove the node-link-node triples that they be placed in the margins . |
| 10 | True enough , but how easily this can lead to the conclusion that anyone who attempts to deal with things that matter must be a bore , that rather than run the risk of talking nonsense one should play it safe and stick to charming trifles … . |
| 11 | NAPO believes that rather than reducing the jail population the prison numbers will rise . |
| 12 | Is there a compromise which says that rather than increasing the nine thousand seven hundred as suggested a moment ago from the county councils own point of view that nine thousand seven hundred should be decreased on a new settlement . |
| 13 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 14 | With a terrible flash that all but blinded the onlookers the island vanished , around it the storm of magical energy . |
| 15 | The walls were a blaze of colour — vivid , exciting , dramatic paintings that all but covered the walls , and she was in nearly every one of them . |
| 16 | Two major " betrayals " in five years were more than enough and created the permanent attitude of mistrust towards leadership which characterized radicals in the labour movement from then onwards . |
| 17 | My washing has to be hung out horizontally rather than vertically because given the chance he can bring down a row of wet towels in six seconds flat . |
| 18 | Eric was squealing louder than ever and pedalling the air with his legs . |
| 19 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 20 | And rather than viewing the party 's triumph in October as an expression of the will of the Russian masses , they see it as the product of manipulation of an unstable situation by an élite group of fanatical revolutionaries . |
| 21 | It says it works in accordance with our normal procedures except and rather than put the exceptions for access in that procedure , . |
| 22 | Finally to add a bit of orange or red colours to the tank , and rather than include the aggressive C. citrinellum or C. labiatum , which might cause problems for the beginner , you could add the orange-yellow form of Petenia splendida which , while not being a Cichlasoma , would make a good addition to the community tank as they are very peaceful despite their large size . |
| 23 | And rather than treading the boards … they were teetering two feet above them . |
| 24 | She generates interesting theories , offers stimulating possibilities , makes her pitch for a long exploration , and all but does the dance of the seven veils to persuade Rainbow to join her on a journey of self-discovery . |
| 25 | These had a major impact in Britain and elsewhere and form the beginning of subsequent studies . |
| 26 | An alternative way of examining this example might be to see the individuals as employees or representatives of the organisation , and thus as exercising the rights the organisation had gained for them through the treaty , independent of their member States . |
| 27 | It was not long — and far quicker than he knew — before she became aware of his scrutiny and soon after sensed the unusual and possibly intimidating intensity of it . |
| 28 | This ensures continuity of care between hospital and home and gives the patient confidence to cope with a new situation . |
| 29 | I shook it loosely and quickly and threw the dice . |
| 30 | Arab states including Algeria , Jordan , Sudan , Syria and Yemen strongly condemned the plan , regarding it as setting a dangerous precedent in the region and also as signalling the effective three-way partitioning of Iraq into Kurdish , Sunni and Shia blocs . |