Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 2 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 3 | It was inevitable that I was fully occupied by my fear rather than watching an Egyptian film , Abla and Anter , a classic Bedouin love story . |
| 4 | Trailers , commercials , even turgid travelogues whet my appetite exactly as intended , and the sight of the MGM lion , the Pearly Dean Gates or even the Pathe cockerel gives the quiet hum of anticipation one usually associates with meditating monks . |
| 5 | I particularly thank my hon. Friend and his colleagues for recently calling in the Hillside and Brookshill development in my district so as to protect still further the local green belt land . |
| 6 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 7 | The president , Sir Lawrence Byford , talked me out of it yesterday by imploring me to stay and fight my corner rather than walk away . |
| 8 | And you will charge to my account annually until cancelled the subscription price — currently £14.70 . |
| 9 | I would rather give half my country away than know the secret of this powder . |
| 10 | As usual I had not named my squad so as to keep the opposition guessing — all I had announced was that there would be eleven players in the team . |
| 11 | I would have cut my throat rather than grow up to be like my Mam . |
| 12 | I 'd cut my throat rather than do it again … |
| 13 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | The report concluded that the pattern of courses and examinations below the level of OND lacked clarity and cohesion and that , consequently , there was a need to rationalize their provision so as to offer students a recognizable ladder of progression within clearly defined educational stages . |
| 15 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 16 | Consideration there must still be but in my judgment the courts nowadays should be more ready to find its existence so as to reflect the intention of the parties to the contract where the bargaining powers are not unequal and where the finding of consideration reflects the true intention of the parties . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman wants people to let him spend their money rather than spending it themselves . |
| 18 | Despite its enormous membership , the LNU in the 1920s had not been a popular movement — it did not see its function primarily as campaigning to change Government policy . |
| 19 | as if to illustrate , Harlow District Council 's controversial capping limit has seen their budget more than halved , with hundreds of redundancies likely to result . |
| 20 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |
| 21 | While the politicians see PEBs as a device for party propaganda , the broadcasters see PEBs as a platform for parties to inform the electorate by stating their case rather than chanting their slogans . |
| 22 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 23 | Some people find their hair looks better if they change their shampoo regularly because using one product can cause a build-up of residue , as dies using too many styling products . |
| 24 | It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more . |
| 25 | We would register our management system in its entirety rather than have two systems running parallel — QA on the one hand and Standard Management on the other . |
| 26 | They certainly choose their abuse so as to indicate to those who do toe the line that they have lost it . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be better for these people to suffer the knock of failing their test once than have a bigger knock afterwards , such as a road accident , ’ she says . |
| 28 | Whole word recognition would appear to have its place especially when used in conjunction with other recognition techniques , but the current recogniser does not supply this type of information . |
| 29 | The epic story of how the citizens of Phocaea abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians is told by Herodotus 1.163 ff . |
| 30 | Just when she had decided to go back to her room rather than turn into a block of ice , a warning creak issued from the men 's corridor . |