Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than stay in a stuffy room we decided to carry on with our lessons out of sight of the road in the back garden , which was more distracting but more pleasant . |
| 2 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 3 | The speakers hardly whine and Jim Reid now sings with a US accent , rather than mumbling in a Scots one — it all sounds improbably adult-oriented . |
| 4 | The process of vortex stretching , considered in Section 6.6 , will thus be strongly present — although occurring in a random fashion . |
| 5 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 6 | Valium use , furthermore , focuses on individual malfunctioning : social and economic problems are dealt with in a framework of a medical model of relief of individual distress , alleviating symptoms rather than operating in a social context which may require familial or wider social change . |
| 7 | The modern actuary is far more likely to be a well-rounded individual , meeting people and advising on vital aspects of corporate development , than buried in a statistical department . |
| 8 | Hetherington ( 1979 ) found that if marital separation led to a cessation of hostilities and conflict , this seemed somewhat less damaging for children than remaining in a discordant , unhappy , but intact home . |
| 9 | No wonder she had never got further than teaching in a one-roomed schoolhouse . |
| 10 | Rather than attempt in a short book a history of artistic developments at Rome from the early days on the Palatine to the rise of the Christian city , I have chosen to write about four important themes , which are briefly described in the introduction . |
| 11 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 12 | Some people engaging in the issue of disability representation have tried to affect the taste of non-disabled audiences and supporters , rather than engage in a political creativity within and about the disability struggle . |
| 13 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 14 | Even Schopenhauer could do no more than persist in a hopeless search for truth . |
| 15 | Internal review will then be just a matter of mechanically scrutinizing numbers on a balance sheet , rather than engaging in a critical dialogue over the educational effectiveness of courses . |
| 16 | A central concern must now be exactly that which was identified by Dent nearly 50 years ago — the ‘ threat to democracy ’ , which it has been argued is also present , although manifested in a different form , in the changes in the legal framework to the university sector . |
| 17 | Apart from that , Novell says that it has extended and streamlined existing NetWare 3.11 code , rather than indulging in a complete re-write . |
| 18 | I may be old-fashioned , but I 'd rather see them married than indulging in a sordid little affair . ’ |
| 19 | Many plant cells continue to grow and divide , even when divorced from the parent plant , if placed in a suitable culture medium . |
| 20 | The process of formally stating aims can be instrumental in bringing about an examination of assumptions if undertaken in a self-searching way . |
| 21 | It would carry conviction only if located in a convincing scenario for sustained modernisation and growth — which no one is convinced Labour has . |
| 22 | Lavender is slightly tender , and will be better able to survive if grown in a warm sunny position and dry , well-drained soil so that it ripens and matures thoroughly before winter . |
| 23 | However , as we have seen in Chapter 3 , clinical aromatherapy ( without the use of massage ) can work wonders if applied in a holistic rather than a symptomatic way . |
| 24 | The argument here is not that the group shares a common material objective interest which unites them , though they may well do so ; such an argument , if framed in a strict manner , might take elite theorists perilously close to Marxist positions , in which the material interests related to the appropriate mode of production specify the class . |
| 25 | The 1931 result , of course , left a great deal of room for recoil , but even so , the average of these results , if reflected in a general election , would have produced a substantial Labour majority in the House of Commons . |
| 26 | criticism only improves performance if offered in a kindly way , with a genuine liking or at least respect for the other person |
| 27 | Sceptical doubts about objectivity make good sense within a practice ; there are objectively correct answers to questions how to go on , and if challenged in a particular case , we can support our choice by appeal to the rule ( 'Why did you write 20,002 ? ’ 'Because you told me to go on adding 2' ) . |
| 28 | A senior manager with major responsibilities in a large contract catering company would receive similar benefits , if based in a large city . |
| 29 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 30 | If understood in a particular way , this Franciscan insight captures , I believe , the essence of those who stand for the promotion of animal welfare . |