Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 2 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 3 | Prudent homeowners build their houses on continuous foundations rather than rest them on pier blocks from which they can be bucked when the big shake comes . |
| 4 | Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists . |
| 5 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 6 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 7 | Mentally handicapped people were first admitted to mental hospitals as a policy of segregation at a time when it was thought most prudent to contain such people in institutions rather than permit them to roam freely in society . |
| 8 | Both David and Steve will have objective views rather than tell me what I want to hear . ’ |
| 9 | Similarly , structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them . |
| 10 | It says it will subsidise future private operators rather than permit them to raise London commuter fares to commercial levels . |
| 11 | Would not it have been more sensible to request all those concerned with the project to put forward their plans together and subject them all to just one public inquiry ? |
| 12 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 13 | We are pleased offer our detailed views below and hope they will be taken into account before the Government finalises its procedures for the implementation of the EC Directive . |
| 14 | Lorton swept the coins together and crammed them into the box . |
| 15 | What pinch your fingers together and push it in its |
| 16 | Instead , resting his elbows on his papers , he laced his fingers together and regarded her over them . |
| 17 | THE Property Exchange , a new company publishing a national directory of people who want to swap homes rather than sell them ( if the properties have different values , one party pays the other the difference ) says that so far most people are looking for smaller homes . |
| 18 | For this purpose some printers can be put into a special mode in which they print the escape sequences rather than interpret them . |
| 19 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 20 | I challenge the cigarette manufacturers rather than support them . |
| 21 | The reply , as I have imagined it , turns away Connolly 's suggestion that ISAs somehow ‘ persuade ’ people into views and roles which do not reflect their own interest , on the grounds that these apparatuses constitute subjects rather than manipulating them . |
| 22 | Delays on certain products , the strength of the dollar and a shift to leasing computers rather than buying them had caused the company to issue the warning . |
| 23 | The Council feel that SARU should concentrate on raising money for the development of rugby in the townships rather than spend it on overseas tours to countries which can not afford to finance the visits . |
| 24 | As Montag begins to realise how wrong his community is , he starts to steal a few books rather than burn them all . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , for the scientists running the rehabilitation centres it is still a question of persuading the owners to surrender their captives rather than ordering them to do so . |
| 26 | Since the picture comes between us and the person , false ideas hinder relationships rather than help them . |
| 27 | If job security is what you seek , then besides setting your agreement down in black and white , you should strive to be well organised , willing to discuss your grievances rather than bottling them up and prepared to react flexibly if circumstances change . |
| 28 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 29 | PLAN will be supporting the government 's policy to integrate these children into existing family units rather than absorb them into separate institutions . ’ |
| 30 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |