Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gifted decorating triumvirate with an outstanding range of experience and the capacity to interpret clients ' own wishes rather than to impose a ‘ house style ’ . |
| 2 | This is because the government 's objectives relate to the welfare of New Zealanders rather than making a profit . |
| 3 | I believe that the secretary of state would have been better advised to market the acceptability of genitourinary medicine clinics rather than to promote a facility that could impair the health of the nation . |
| 4 | Many fans drift into and out of groups rather than making a gradual progress . |
| 5 | The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances . |
| 6 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 7 | The game has been put back 24 hours so as to avoid a clash with live television transmission of Honved v Manchester United and Rangers v Levski Sofia — so there 's no excuse . |
| 8 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 9 | They are asking clusters to pull together their existing key databases rather than implementing a full networked database , a task that is still very hard to manage . |
| 10 | Discretion will allow officials to exercise some autonomy in their work and may allow the official to respond to the individual needs of clients rather than applying a set of standard rules . |
| 11 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 12 | In Lakoff 's case , it might be a reflection of her training in the Chomskyan tradition , which urges the analyst to examine her own intuitions rather than collecting a corpus of data . |
| 13 | to develop from a small beginning in manageable steps rather than to spend a long period identifying ‘ all ’ institutional needs and all required data items followed by software development of a ‘ complete ’ system on an unmanageable scale ; |
| 14 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 15 | The basic idea ( see Figure 9.2 ) was that members agreed to maintain no more than a 2¼ per cent band around all their respective currencies so as to set a limit to the degree to which exchange values could fluctuate ( the ‘ snake ’ ) . |
| 16 | The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals . |
| 17 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 18 | The finance cost should be allocated to accounting periods so as to achieve a constant rate on the amount outstanding . |
| 19 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 20 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 21 | If we accept justice as a political virtue we want our legislators and other officials to distribute material resources and protect civil liberties so as to secure a morally defensible outcome . |
| 22 | In the view of general manager Alan Sinclair , most agents in Britain lean too heavily towards the mass marketing of packages rather than providing a proper travel service . |
| 23 | More bad luck years even than breaking a mirror . |
| 24 | Along with Clary , however , Merton tends towards discussions about his auntie 's table napkins rather than cracking a string of Stalinist corkers . |
| 25 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |
| 26 | He 's quick and strong and is the type who will get on the end of things rather than play a big part in the build-up . |
| 27 | More recently , interest revived when barbel became more widely distributed and anglers began to throw aside the class barriers and choose a quarry on its own merits rather than choose a fish by virtue of the fact that is has , or has not , an adipose fin . |
| 28 | A farmer who 's threatened to shoot her cattle rather than allow a bypass through her land , has come face to face with officials who want to build the road . |
| 29 | They will obviously arrange their affairs so as to ensure a steady stream of maturing loans . |
| 30 | WACC-AR should develop leadership and resources so as to create a more critically aware consumer media , thus achieving a level of media literacy parallel to that of reading literacy ; |