Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] opposed [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus . |
| 2 | I I recall that I in effect directed that an officer should carry a shotgun as opposed to the original officer that er was down for that weapon . |
| 3 | And in the point-of-sale material just a headline as opposed to the two sentences you have now ? |
| 4 | Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ . |
| 5 | The video is already a record breaker in that it was produced in only three weeks as opposed to the normal six to eight weeks . |
| 6 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 7 | Osman noted that although state income in 1989 had been higher than expected — 214,000 million meticais as opposed to the 190,000 million meticais originally projected — spending had also been higher than budgeted , at 238,000 million meticais . |
| 8 | Their main benefit is that they allow the applications software to be independent of the physical printing device as opposed to the normal case where specific routines have to be written for each device . |
| 9 | At the moment the figures of housing provision in that draft advice are rat are done on a rather different basis for West Yorkshire as opposed to the other counties in the region . |
| 10 | Project B remits larger cash inflows spread over a five-year period as opposed to the three years of cash inflows from Project A. Discounted cash flows would provide a rational basis for comparing these two projects on an equitable basis . |
| 11 | There is a need for receptiveness to new ideas as opposed to the instantaneous rejection which is our normal British heritage . |
| 12 | Grice himself might assimilate apine dance to the category of phenomena that have what he called natural meaning as opposed to the non-natural meaning of expressions of natural language . |
| 13 | This tension between change and continuity is the key to understanding the inner meaning as opposed to the outward form of working-class sport . |
| 14 | The Red Trafalgar was the public house called the Trafalgar Arms with its exterior painted in bright red as opposed to the Green Trafalgar , a pub of the same name , over Deptford Bridge and painted a dark green . |
| 15 | She moved languidly , in the way she had of emphasising the full line of her bosom as opposed to the slim waist below . |
| 16 | Even if consideration had been confined to health education as opposed to the broader concept of health promotion , the interventions could readily have been predicted to be of limited value . |
| 17 | agree to it being handed in the next day as opposed to the next lesson ? |
| 18 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 19 | That support was based on the false assumption that it covered the rise in real poll tax levels as opposed to the notional , national averages . |
| 20 | A second difference concerns the single union-management channel for handling regulative issues in Britain as opposed to the dual , but clearly differentiated , system in Germany between the works council structure and that provided by the union and employer . |
| 21 | But both the idea of politics as a collective activity , as the business of the citizens themselves , and the idea of politics as rational , regulated government as opposed to the arbitrary unpredictable rule of despots pointed in the direction of democracy . |
| 22 | A side-effect of this is that if your mail starts showing your long address as opposed to the short address given for your name on the list , the dopey list software rejects it . |
| 23 | We want , we want that seal it style as opposed to the right , we do indeed , yes a closing , a closing staple . |
| 24 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 25 | Have you evaluated the relative costs and benefits of an eastern relief road as opposed to the western relief road ? |
| 26 | It what it tends to do is to encourage more traffic to come into Knaresborough on the main road as opposed to the two secondary roads . |
| 27 | Apart from anything else , this gives the individual manager the best chance of building some capital , and the problem of a large organization as opposed to the self-employed lies in the area of capital accumulation . |
| 28 | The visits to the colleges provided a much wider perspective on the provision of accounting courses as opposed to the narrow single college viewpoint . |
| 29 | The store manager 's job appeared to involve a large amount of administration of the system as opposed to the actual coordination of staff activities . |
| 30 | Er , looking through the officer workload ratios in paragraph four , it shows that using what are in honesty fairly crude Home Office measures , we 're really quite well to the national average , that we carry out approximately four hundred and thirty three inspections per officer in a year as opposed to the expected four hundred and eighty two . |