Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , after almost fifty years we look back and the rich variety of our doings in the years between fulfills the concept of university as a preparation for life rather than training for a specific walk of life . |
| 2 | We have had debates on the entrenchment of rights ; on federalism or regional devolution as against the unitary state ; on the case for consensus rather than majority as a basis for government , on the relative weight of national versus local mandates and the independence of local government , on the duty of civil servants ; on electoral reform with all its implications for the operations of government ; on who should define the national interest ; on open government and official secrecy ; on complementing representative democracy by referenda and other forms of participation — and much else . |
| 3 | er the next big area , again there 's another million pounds in total for special educational needs erm and provision for pupils so if you add up |
| 4 | Conservative budget for example even though its main press is always on keeping the tax level down er will often include capital projects . |
| 5 | But this was an excuse for confrontation rather than a cause . |
| 6 | Yeah I 've only got to go to the bank and got to pay something for Gary , I 've got to pay in a cheque for Gary again cos he 's ever so low again this year , this week , this month |
| 7 | The term ‘ new thinking ’ was in any case a ‘ general framework for policy rather than a detailed plan of action ’ . |
| 8 | We consider that tribunals should properly be regarded as machinery provided by Parliament for adjudication rather than as part of the machinery for administration . |
| 9 | But her scenarios are without irony , studies of skin as flesh rather than repositories of myth and moral fable . |
| 10 | Dr Colin Coles , an educational psychologist from Southampton , is a firm believer in change through evolution rather than revolution . |
| 11 | The duty is phrased more positively in terms of support for families rather than diminishing the need to take children into care ; the duty is , though , owed to ‘ children in need ’ , defined in terms of disability , significant impairment of health or development , and failure to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision of services . |
| 12 | Lech Walesa dissolved the Polish parliament and called an election for September rather than accept the resignation of Hanna Suchocka 's government after a vote of no confidence . |
| 13 | Roosevelt correctly saw the verdict of the election as reform rather than revolution . |
| 14 | It could underline their responsibility for health rather than supply and encourage them to view managed units as a rather than the supplier of services . |
| 15 | Well I do n't know as I d I d although to tell you the truth I 've always had a weakness for pictures ever since I was a boy . |
| 16 | It is well equipped , and warrior for warrior better than almost any other . |
| 17 | It says it faces problems because it receives money for average rather than actual salaries . |
| 18 | None of these cases , however , involved the issue raised by Morgan , namely , whether a mistaken belief in consent can negative liability for rape even where the mistake is unreasonable . |
| 19 | For the most part , the fast men were used in short bursts to conserve their strength and responded well to this ; but when the occasion demanded , as on the final day at Lord 's in 1963 , they could keep going for hour after hour just because the captain asked them to . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) Whether , apart from arguments based on the right to freedom of expression , a non-trading corporation has a sufficient reputation to sustain an action for libel even though it can establish no actual financial loss . |
| 21 | A defendant engaging in such conduct would , of course , be liable if injury to the animals ensued but his liability would be in what was classified before the abolition of the forms of action as case rather than trespass . |
| 22 | She knew she 'd be happier with a specific task to take her mind off things rather than just sitting about waiting for whatever might happen next , even if it was only the passing of time . |
| 23 | The truth is , of course , that I 'm still presenting the programme for HTV more than twenty one years later . |
| 24 | A search for independence rather than dependence , for control over self rather than control by others ( autonomy ) . |
| 25 | Everyone wants recognition and appreciation , The danger is that many seek that recognition and appreciation through status rather than contribution and achievement . |
| 26 | Jeopardy was pleased , even to the point of suggesting they should perform the piece for Mandru together when the time came . |
| 27 | We think that pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients should be considered a criterion for AIDS only if immunodepression is shown by a negative tuberculin skin test and/or low CD4/CD8 ratio . |
| 28 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 29 | Models of interdependence deal with mutual vulnerability between states rather than shared vulnerability to global processes . |
| 30 | We may describe these polar positions as thinking of education either as fixed states or as processes . |