Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So too has the rise of feminist versions of the nature of parenting , in which , for example , the daily physical care of children has been demystified to lay bare the sheer labour involved , and hence the need to share this burden equally rather than regard it as an unequivocal privilege ( see , for example , Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 3 | This is seen as a shade different from the enforcement of a sentence as such ; and there can be a practical difference where , as is often the case , the enforcing State keeps the confiscated property rather than than transmitting it to the State in which the order was made . |
| 4 | And rather than make it into a viable erm , organization . |
| 5 | There is no better way of practising the language one is learning than using it outside the classroom . |
| 6 | They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release . |
| 7 | What you are aiming at is a steady indication on the localiser needle , rather than returning it to the centre . |
| 8 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 9 | It is important that you imagine the secret , rather than steal it from a face you already know . |
| 10 | For MCI , the new venture will do more than transform it into an international presence . |
| 11 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 12 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 13 | and it 's cheaper than ordering it off the catalogue . |
| 14 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 15 | Because making the material itself is a lot harder than turning it into a rudimentary bomb , it is the tight control of plutonium and uranium that has until now restricted the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | They have been fighting to keep their current size for more than three years , claiming that they wish to keep the school open to all-comers , rather than limit it to the number of children in Episcopalian families . |
| 17 | Thus , he or she will tend to resolve the crisis rather than use it as a lever towards treatment . |
| 18 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 19 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 20 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 21 | For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets . |
| 22 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 23 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 24 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |
| 25 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 26 | But for him to go self-employed will cost him more money than doing it on the bl black market . |
| 27 | There is nothing to be gained by translating dollars into pounds in this story any more than doing it in a bank , so the money is untouched . |
| 28 | In each case the intention will be to emphasize the artefact 's constitutive character , rather than treating it as a mere reflection of social relations , that is a ‘ human mirror ’ . |
| 29 | One solution to this problem would be to assign a length to a probe , rather than treating it as a point , so that short probes could be contained within longer ones . |
| 30 | Analysts , however , have taken the concept of ‘ literal meaning ’ as a ‘ neutral ’ and ‘ universal ’ tool of study rather than treating it as an object of study in itself , as a part of the ‘ social construction of reality ’ which they are trying to describe and to explain . |