Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their offspring had one each but were tall rather than intermediate in height because the tallness factor is ‘ dominant ’ to the shortness factor . |
| 2 | Eat as much fresh produce as possible rather than relying on tinned , packed and frozen foods . |
| 3 | A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market . |
| 4 | In particular , the floating charge is practicable only if created by a body corporate , there is a separate system for the registration of company charges , there are distinct statutory procedures for the enforcement of the floating charge , certain provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 affecting company charges are unique to corporate insolvency , and the floating charge can be used tactically in order to veto the making of an administration order . |
| 5 | This small Islamic jug ( OA 1952.2-14.1 ) of the ninth century AD appears intact below when viewed by ordinary light , but X-rays show that it is extensively repaired right , especially around the rim . |
| 6 | For the investor who decides to buy direct rather than invest via a gilt unit trust , which may have a front end charge of 6 p.c. plus an annual management fee , the cheapest buying route is via the Post Office . |
| 7 | She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean . |
| 8 | He still wore his expression of vacuous merriment , which must have been habitual rather than assumed in my honour . |
| 9 | Bargaining structures within the international context , although extremely heterogeneous rather than conforming to any simple and tidy pattern , may be broadly classified in terms of the level at which negotiations are mainly conducted . |
| 10 | It is no coincidence that 1974 , the year in England and Wales which saw the end of the decline the proportionate use of imprisonment , and the beginning of a major economic crisis during which the numbers of male unemployed more than doubled by 1976 and increased by a factor of 5 by 1984 , also marked the beginning of the end of the welfarist consensus . |
| 11 | Yet Morgan ( 1972 ) wrote that British East Coast N. lapillus refused to attack L. littorea even when starved for 4 months . |
| 12 | Thorough cleaning will often be adequate particularly if combined with complete drying . |
| 13 | This was manifest principally as flushing of the skin and sweating above the level of the lesion . |
| 14 | They will want strong churches to reproduce themselves to make this easy rather than working against it , enjoying the fact that it will sometimes mean breaking through the parish boundaries for the greater good of enabling all of the people in all the parishes to hear all the gospel . |
| 15 | [ T ] he term British constitution is near meaningless even as used by British writers . |
| 16 | The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court . |
| 17 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 18 | Although violence at seaside resorts on bank holidays appears frightening enough when described by the media , various studies have pointed to the ritualistic character of this and other delinquent activity . |
| 19 | The former assumption says that language behaviour in the classroom has to be natural so as to conform to the naturalness of language use : the latter assumption says that classroom behaviour has to be natural in conformity with natural processes of language learning . |
| 20 | She trotted off again , through a really insalubrious area known as Bligh 's Corner , after some landlord , long dead , and she unconsciously quickened her pace a little so as to arrive in the relatively respectable square where the rectory stood , next door to St Jude 's church where Dr Neil 's household worshipped every Sunday . |
| 21 | Technically , unless accepted by the Speaker , a resignation from the Assembly became operative only if approved by the Assembly as a whole , which was due to remain in recess until September . |
| 22 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 23 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 24 | Chemical production was stronger than forecast , being flat rather than falling by 1 per cent as predicted . |
| 25 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |
| 26 | The Argive krater is far smaller than the Attic amphora ; and it looks as though Athenian artists preferred to monumentalise vase-painting rather than venture into the new world of free painting . |
| 27 | Traditional chemical analysis and the measurement of specific gravity are not much used nowadays , as the former is destructive of the object and the latter is useful only when dealing with an alloy of two metals of greatly differing specific gravities ; in effect this restricts its utility to alloys made of gold and one other metal . |
| 28 | Reminiscent of the CKR 's ‘ no disp ’ clause , however , the transfer will be effective only if noted on the sea waybill . |
| 29 | It was said to be effective only if found without actually seeking it , and some people who came upon it used to say a prayer such as : |
| 30 | As is always the case not everyone was pleased : one of Booth 's team described it as a ‘ large and rather ugly building ’ although ‘ its interior looks well enough when crowded with people . ’ |