Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 2 | Into the largely unexplored Hose Range , and an area called the Bukit Tengah , where lived a number of rare and uncollected species , including the ratbird , happy until this juncture in their uncollected state . |
| 3 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 4 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 5 | And I 'd rather you eat it than make a mess of it eh ? |
| 6 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 7 | There 's no better entertainment than seeing a bunch of over-paid , pampered prima donnas getting their comeuppance . |
| 8 | I had to achieve an impression of London ; to find a series of marks that would give a visual cue rather than deliver a mass of topographical detail . |
| 9 | This seems a useful technique for any situation where a straight piece of wood ends in a curve , since it maintains the visual integrity of the piece and is considerably easier than laminating a number of separate strips ( which I always find slide out of line while being clamped ) . |
| 10 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 11 | Or we might compare the way Philip II kept Phokis intact in 346 rather than make a present of it to Thebes . |
| 12 | Although given a total of fifty-four times on two tours , which was not bad for an apprentice work mounted as a try-out , the nearest Adieu got to central London was the open-air theatre at Finsbury Park , where they danced that summer . |
| 13 | Weaving does take longer than knitting a piece of the same size , but it takes very little longer to weave a long row than a short one , so this can save a considerable amount of time . |
| 14 | Along with Clary , however , Merton tends towards discussions about his auntie 's table napkins rather than cracking a string of Stalinist corkers . |
| 15 | Discretion will allow officials to exercise some autonomy in their work and may allow the official to respond to the individual needs of clients rather than applying a set of standard rules . |
| 16 | The process of asking questions about the whole range of EPH activities , although revealing a number of minor problems , was eventually discontinued because of the time involved in trying to cover all aspects of the database . |
| 17 | Perhaps he is a merry , convivial sort of fellow in private life , who likes nothing more than to crack a bottle of wine with his friends when there is no possibility of having to drive a motor-car afterwards . |
| 18 | He gave her a son 's kiss , than ate a piece of his brother . |
| 19 | This feature is predicted by the pulsating cusp model : a pulse of reconnection is envisaged as initially producing an equatorward motion of the open/closed boundary , rather than causing a burst of poleward flow ( with the boundary static ) . |
| 20 | Rather than store a bitmap of each character at every size it might be required , something that takes prodigious amounts of memory or disk storage , they used a single digital outline of the character and generated the required bitmap on demand . |
| 21 | Rather than use a variety of notions such as recoverability , predictability , and saliency to explain givenness , Chafe suggests that the key to givenness lies in the notion of consciousness : |
| 22 | Nelson says he has striven to maintain that balance rather than provide a recording of the set pieces interspersed with insubstantial spoken passages . |
| 23 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 24 | Many readers are hindered by inaudibly ‘ pronouncing ’ each word rather than scanning a group of words to get the meaning of a sentence and rapid reading classes can be helpful in correcting this deficiency . |
| 25 | Rather than providing a survey of English Literature , the ten units are aimed to guide students towards acquiring the linguistic and critical awareness which will enable them to read for pleasure , discuss and write about literature . |
| 26 | In the final analysis the need for a swift response to an immediate housing shortage after the war painted almost inevitably to a large-scale local authority housing programme , rather than face a period of delay while housing associations were geared up to the task . |
| 27 | these proposals we regard as doing no more than initiating a programme of family welfare which will have to be kept under continuous review and modified and expanded in the light of experience and deeper knowledge . |
| 28 | ‘ I think there 's nothing more therapeutic than sharing a glass of champagne . ’ |
| 29 | And multi-player games are good for business : groups of friends will have to buy more than one copy of each game , rather than sharing a set of different games . |
| 30 | So in fact the crinoline , although in some ways it had its disadvantages , I think it was a good deal more comfortable than , than wearing a lot of petticoats and being very restricted like that . |