Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 2 | Tyndall was a Professor at the Royal Institution , and an accomplished lecturer in that tradition , where arousing interest in a general audience was all-important , in contrast to academics training students , who thought of him as windy and superficial . |
| 3 | In this context , then , approaches to education must begin from the notion , articulated by André Gorz and others , that ours is a post-industrial society where paid work on a full-time basis is no longer to be seen as the norm , and where ‘ education for life ’ rather than ‘ training for jobs ’ should be the objective . |
| 4 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 5 | Although professing support for the retention of the pay formula , senior officers hoped industrial action could be avoided . |
| 6 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 7 | Better to take a long cool walk and see it that way than lose perspective in the weary hours of the night . |
| 8 | Meetings between the two monarchs were arranged , but rather than bringing peace to the two countries , fresh hostilities broke out . |
| 9 | Although targeting employment through the labour market is inevitably uncertain , skills training certainly improves the job prospects of local people . |
| 10 | Would it not be far better for the Government to end these punitive and ridiculous double tax payments — the Post Office already pays corporation tax — thus allowing it to concentrate on improving the quality of service to customers rather than pursuing abolition of the second delivery in towns and putting restrictions on rural services such as insisting that people have letter boxes at the bottom of their gardens or , in some cases , making people go to village centres for their letters ? |
| 11 | The target voters inhabit the Market estate , a council block so cunningly customised to ensure its residents ' safety that getting in is more exacting than gaining entry to a Tory press conference . |
| 12 | The principal objective of the system of supervision with the Appointed Actuary is to give emphasis to the importance of providing fair value for consumers of life assurance products and ensuring their security , rather than to provide protection for the insurance company . |
| 13 | That centre for one of the staff who work there , make quite profound impact on the quality of life for many people living on our estates and I can not see anything more short sighted than denying access to the sorts of services and the sorts of pleasures that people can get from use of a community centre like that by cutting back on staffing so that we ca n't actually use the capital resources that we 've b the capital that we 've invested in facilities like that . |
| 14 | Every moment I am conscious of those little differences which , although appearing minute to the layman , to the dancer constitute the difference between the amateur and that je ne sais quoi which makes him professional . |
| 15 | Three years later Dr H. J. Hewitt published his influential book , The organization of war under Edward III , 1338–62 , in which , rather than describe activity of a narrow , military kind , he wrote about the relatively unglamorous background and preparation needed for war at that time and , indeed , ever since . |
| 16 | This should enable the purchaser to identify and deal with risks before contract rather than seeking redress from the vendor after completion . |
| 17 | But he was , nevertheless , a witty and civilised man and was always welcomed by the public relations people who like nothing better than to pour alcohol down the usually receptive throat of a member of the Press . |
| 18 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |
| 19 | Shooting him as he made his approach would be easier than pumping lead into a target . |
| 20 | The tenants preferred to use the contentious area as air space for the benefit of the lower ground floor rather than selling space for the benefit of the ground floor . |
| 21 | But the others were plainly endorsing her vote of thanks to their host rather than paying tribute to the newly-discovered ‘ communautaire ’ qualities of the Iron Lady . |
| 22 | On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system . |
| 23 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 24 | But perhaps the obvious disparity between individual talents and dispositions which clearly fit some for action more than others , the obvious tension involved between the pressures of active involvement in affairs and the inner detachment necessary for thought and contemplation , and the history of the development of Western institutional Christianity with its strong tradition of groups separated from the world in convents and monasteries , or priests distinguished from the laity by their religious calling , make it after all not so surprising that the discussions of active and contemplative life tended to stress their separation from each other rather than draw attention to a more fruitful affinity . |
| 25 | To conclude I think that we should go along rather than hope sort of an aspect of Conservative philosophy which is that people should be encouraged to earn money and they should be encouraged to save money and that therefore in this case this means proposing this Conservative motion , though I hope they will actually have the common sense to withdraw it . |
| 26 | It is clear from these statutory provisions that in general Parliament has not sought to remove the responsibility for formulating admissions policy from the governors , although requiring admission of a minimum number of pupils and consultation between the governors and the local education authority as to the contents of the policy . |
| 27 | But cruise and Pershing 11 missiles do more than maintain deterrence in the face of a growing threat . |
| 28 | Although providing support for the findings of Mattila et al , our results show a weaker association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 29 | as if conforming to some prearranged ceremony they grouped themselves into a semicircle with Alex Mair a little to the front , like a formal welcoming party but one bracing itself for trouble rather than expecting pleasure from the approaching guest . |
| 30 | If the ’ prudence ’ concept is followed there should be a tendency to undervalue rather than overvalue stock in the building industry . |