Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 2 | I am not certain that time and rehabilitation is not the best for this rather than sedating them . |
| 3 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 4 | These generally had a larger proportion of advertising , and the higher the circulation , the greater was the amount of classified rather than display ads , which was the opposite of the nationals . |
| 5 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 6 | As seen from the United States both Japan and western Europe welcomed the American deregulatory tide of 1975 onwards as offering a freer flow into the US market . |
| 7 | Thus in countries where industrialisation and the establishment of the trade union movement came somewhat later this facilitated the organisation of industrial rather than craft unions and , in turn , often contributed to a strongly socialist influence over the labour movement . |
| 8 | Living should always be like this rather than drudge and more drudge . |
| 9 | [ T ] he term British constitution is near meaningless even as used by British writers . |
| 10 | Lord Justice went on , quote , I agree with this indeed when making the calculations the judge had to make , those who die early are the only ones which matter because the fact of living longer than the expectation is immaterial . |
| 11 | Foucault argues that a whole series of movements since the nineteenth century , including various anthropologizing Marxisms , have developed complicitly with this so as to preserve the sovereignty of the subject against Marx 's and others ' decentrings : positivism , the Hegelian Marxism of Lukács , the Marxist humanism of Sartre , as well as various theories of cultural totalities such as that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 12 | ‘ I think she 's got the attribute that every good cook should have — if you can do a few things really well , stay with those rather than attempt the impossible . ’ |
| 13 | Pilots had little faith in the system and kept their heads and height down , preferring to risk prosecution by the CAA for low-flying rather than run the risk of killing themselves and another crew . |
| 14 | It is different in that rather than lose V1 altogether in favour of V2 , the London speakers of Creole use V2 alongside V1 . |
| 15 | To a Marxist-Leninist , control of resources is power ; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it . |
| 16 | Or we might compare the way Philip II kept Phokis intact in 346 rather than make a present of it to Thebes . |
| 17 | Ninety per cent of debtors paid up in 1979 rather than tolerate the presence of the malodorous individual in reception for another five minutes . |
| 18 | We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University . |
| 19 | Due to ignorance about the local language , the slogan was expressed in Chinese so as to mean ‘ Pepsi re-awakens your dead relatives ’ . |
| 20 | As Prime Minister he accepted the resignation of his Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958 rather than agree to modest public expenditure cuts . |
| 21 | A period of revival came also in 1817 when in two months 60 more members were added to the Society and the congregation in general more than doubled . |
| 22 | 2 Locational decisions are taken in general so as to minimise the frictional effects of distance . |
| 23 | The state , and the civil bureaucracy in particular even when fused into the party apparatus , controlled the social formation of the Third Reich in the interest of German monopoly capital . |
| 24 | I know of others who feel much the same — it 's called consensus politics , and it requires cooperation and a concentration on what the parties have in common rather than exaggerating their differences . |
| 25 | The boots were very comfortable from new even when wearing a single pair of walking socks . |
| 26 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 27 | He could have given us a picture of Halling in the 16th century , but we will come to that later when investigating his own life here at Halling . |
| 28 | We shall return to this shortly when seeking a measure of infinitesimal strain . |
| 29 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 30 | I watched a girl in front of me trying to hop from one patch to another so as to avoid ducking the two strips of leather somebody had sold her as shoes . |