Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context . |
| 2 | In two days he had made birdies at only the 15th twice and the second once . |
| 3 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 4 | True to the Romantic tradition from which this belief sprang , the imagination was valued more than the analytical intelligence , the specific more than the general , experience more than discourse , connaitre more than savoir . |
| 5 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 6 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 7 | The reissued so that the reissued quantitated appro .. search approval form no longer has provision for B P questionnaire approval . |
| 8 | The second group is concentrated among a particular section of the middle class — those in the private rather than the public sector , and among those who are not graduates . |
| 9 | Indeed , comparison of managerial facilities and perquisites in the public and private sectors ( such as office furnishings , secretarial support , company cars , expense accounts , etc ) suggest that ‘ it is the private rather than the public sector that offers greater possibilities for at least these kinds of non-pecuniary consumption ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1982 , p. 77 ) . |
| 10 | For example , it is predicted that certain kinds of ‘ life strategies ’ will be found most commonly in people in whom particular corresponding moods or emotions predominate , and that the more general the strategies are , the stronger their association will be with the emotional rather than the intellectual characteristics of the person . |
| 11 | Hence part of the challenge is to find ways to getting through to the uninitiated so that a much larger proportion of adults have some insight into what mathematics is about . |
| 12 | Following a tradition dating from Searle ( 1975 ) , Ryan emphasises the illocutionary rather than the ontological dimension of fictionality , and devises a formula aimed to capture the essence of what she calls the " fictional transaction " . |
| 13 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 14 | ‘ Professional ’ as against ‘ amateur ’ may also have connotations of discipline , of the instrumental rather than the expressive . |
| 15 | As discrepancies may well overestimate the number of errors that actually occur in a trial ( for example , the electronic rather than the written record may be erroneous ) , the minimum estimate is that provided by retrospective completions alone — namely , 2% in the morning and 9% in the evening . |
| 16 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 17 | One simple way of describing this difference is to say that speech act theory is interested in the social rather than the cognitive aspects of language . |
| 18 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 19 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 20 | He had been there so long , had been so doubtful — and , until recently , so indifferent — about seeing the outside again that the mention of discharge took him by surprise . |
| 21 | I do n't know if the Guiness is as good at the Imperial anymore as the pub has changed hands ! ! ! . |
| 22 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
| 23 | But this imitation of well-established exemplars is another mark of the psychotic rather than the genuine mystic . |
| 24 | The self to whose development the authors relate this process tends to be a highly individualist subjective self , of the psychological rather than the anthropological tradition , with given psychic needs . |
| 25 | Alternatively a pair can be maintained and bred in an 18″ or 24″ tank of their own , or make excellent additions to a Discus aquarium as long as this is of the planted rather than the bare type . |
| 26 | They were chosen for the award by an independent panel of judges comprising leading local journalists from the print and electronic media and are the sixth award winners from the state of Kedah and the 142nd overall since the scheme was launched in July 1975 . |
| 27 | The Green Party 's policy has been described as a manifesto for the 1890's rather than the 1980's . |
| 28 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |
| 29 | Similarly , if the sex of a referent is not known , the masculine rather than the feminine form is used . |
| 30 | Rather more serious , although not , therefore , more grave , is the way in which this draws attention to the conventional rather than the real distinction between characters — especially tale-tellers — at different levels of a framed narrative . |