Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While living in Stornoway I had heard it occasionally but it had been the exception rather than the rule . |
| 2 | This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves ! |
| 3 | This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources . |
| 4 | Not only that , he concentrated his attack purely on enclosures as a cause of depopulation , and by so doing both failed to consider how far enclosures might have been the result rather than the cause , and omitted to mention a related question , that of the ‘ engrossing ’ or accumulation of farms by a single owner . |
| 5 | What if revenge had been the motive rather than the silencing of a witness ? |
| 6 | At the same time they remained , as we all remain , implicated in other kinds of discrimination of which they and we , originally and subsequently , are the agents rather than the victims , or maybe both agents and victims . |
| 7 | what are the procedures then if fire wardens are n't there ? |
| 8 | For those men and women who live into middle age , pain , disease and poverty are the norm rather than the exception . |
| 9 | In topic-prominent languages , these structures are the norm rather than the exception . |
| 10 | Generally , they are a healthy breed although there have been known cases of luxating patella ( slipping kneecap ) and the occasional heart murmur , but these are the exception rather than the rule . |
| 11 | Consignments that are shipped according to the rule books are the exception rather than the rule . |
| 12 | Such links do exist at the present time , but they are the exception rather than the norm . |
| 13 | Although there is an ever-increasing literature on cement morphologies and diagenesis within this zone , especially within soils , it is important to remember that many such cements are the exception rather than the rule . |
| 14 | Apart from the chance of filling the glass case , Fionn also has large stocks of more traditionally sized Highland trout , averaging 8-I2oz , and as on Loch Assynt , large baskets are the rule rather than the exception . |
| 15 | However , error terms are often highly non-Gaussian , and outliers from the line are the rule rather than the exception . |
| 16 | In the democracies of continental Europe coalition governments are the rule rather than the exception . |
| 17 | Group activity and interest groups are the focus rather than the institution as an entity . |
| 18 | There 's the odd junkie or alcoholic but they 're the exception rather than the rule . ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes I think you 're an accountant rather than a copper . ’ |
| 20 | As they approached the workshop at the Piggeries — there had been no pigs there since her grandfather 's day — she saw the clump of men , half turned away , appearing uninterested . |
| 21 | Mine had been a decade earlier when Marcel Marceau removed my hands from behind my back ; hands , which at that period did n't resemble hands at all , but strawberry coloured boxing gloves . |
| 22 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 23 | as a last sort of erm two days of the sale or something , they have their special offer next week or fifty percent off everything or something I feel sorry for these places really , that do you know it 's funny I only saw the car immediately in front of this grey one in there must of been a dip there because there 's two cars in front of me |
| 24 | At Old Street , I passed the Gym ‘ n ’ Tonic health club — I 'd been a member there until an embarrassing incident one evening in the female jacuzzi — then turned up towards Islington proper . |
| 25 | But it 's been a while now since I heard . ’ |
| 26 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 27 | ‘ Symptom substitution ’ was notable for its absence , and the ‘ underlying psychological problems ’ seem to have been a result rather than a cause . |
| 28 | It could have been a lot more but for the brave actions of some people . |
| 29 | The privet hen had been a joke ever since they moved in ; a piece of topiary of which the house 's previous owner had been inordinately proud . |
| 30 | Although I admire Mrs Dinwiddie 's concern for her family , I remind her that had she been a mother less than 80 years ago , when there were no modern crop chemicals , animal health products , food preservatives , human vaccines and modern medicines it is unlikely that her complete family would have survived childhood . |