Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions . |
| 2 | ‘ After that write-up , it had better be something a bit more decisive than tossing each other off in the bogs . ’ |
| 3 | One 's blood ran cold when German politicians , rather than condemning such violence outright , instead found it more expedient to talk of clamping down on immigration — as though immigrants themselves were partly to blame for being beaten up and firebombed . |
| 4 | He would rather died on the spot than endure that pain again . |
| 5 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 6 | ( Above the hill are two windmills , known as Jack and Jill , although built fifty years apart , one pre-dating and one post-dating the tunnel . ) |
| 7 | I 'd rather walk down the road naked than put that thing on . ’ |
| 8 | To do the project justice and allow time for the respondents ' concerns to be dealt with , this amount of time is required rather than sending all surveys out in one block . |
| 9 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 10 | It 's still better than buying another ticket now you 're here — I 'll cook supper — and tomorrow you can look at the rest of the Archive . |
| 11 | She tried to make light of the situation by telling the child this would be better than having some teeth out , which was planned for the following day . |
| 12 | There have to be some standards but a track record is more important than spending three weekends away being taught something you already know , and I 'm quite happy to stand or fall on my personal record . |
| 13 | This is much faster than reading written English aloud , as in the case of the BBC news , where the rate may descend to nearer 200 , especially on the World Service . |
| 14 | It is not that , in the face of a system of chattel slavery , we first insist on counting everyone 's interests equitably and then see if slaves should be liberated ; it is that we first recognise the moral imperative to liberate them , on grounds other than counting equal interests equally . |
| 15 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 16 | I have done hardly any work , except keep this Diary up to date for a week , which is something of a record for me ! |
| 17 | Although awarded seven marks apiece — making them weedier than that old stalwart , the creeping thistle — they are not widely viewed as potential threats . |
| 18 | Such games are usually very playable but BTTF is so poorly executed , I 'd rather have Corky stand on my head than play this drivel again . |
| 19 | Luckily there are more of these around now erm but to me the community approach is having people that are aware enough , teachers for instance erm others that are erm happy with these sort of ways , just helping people anybody they meet , just boosting up their confidence , encouraging them to speak , erm giving , you know , praise to each other for a start , rather than putting each other down . |
| 20 | Curtains advertised with 25 per cent off were in reality £20 a pair more than advertised eight days earlier , Reading magistrates heard . |
| 21 | Although published some years ago this particular volume from the Ray Society ( which is more usually associated with learned works on natural history ) had not been brought to The Lifeboat 's notice before . |
| 22 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 23 | Rather than rejecting objectionable discourses past and present , this approach entails an unstable coexistence with that which it contests , and it manifests this textually as the parodic adulteration , manipulation , or ‘ doctoring ’ of another 's language . |
| 24 | Policy-makers and commentators in many countries of the world have often assumed that small farmers and peasants in mountainous and/or environmentally degraded areas will abandon their hillside plots if given other opportunities elsewhere , so that the state by various means can ease population pressure on steep slopes by encouraging or at least not inhibiting colonisation of new areas . |
| 25 | In many cases the answers to that question would be difficult to unravel , and if challenged most people probably would say that they were doing both . |
| 26 | HARRY 'S LADY : Has not been out since July when chased leaders until faded three furlongs out 9l 5th to Sir Danik ( Nottingham 1m , Gd-Fm ) . |
| 27 | Because getting young Rossiter up to eleven lengths will see me to the grave . |
| 28 | The Orientals are masters of the art of the illusion of quality , nice fit and finish of trim , while employing cost-cutting techniques deep inside the car where they are not readily apparent . |
| 29 | None the less , the President presides over the Conseil des Ministres ( the Cabinet ) and is responsible for determining the main outlines of policy while reserving certain areas almost exclusively for himself ( especially defence and foreign policy ) . |
| 30 | Weirder — and better — still , watching NICK CAVE while standing 18 inches away from the stage is akin to catching the alarmingly gaunt one down the blinking Bull & Gate . |