Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in so many cases , the police and the courts are dealing with persistent reoffenders rather than with first-time offenders , for whom a caution or community service would be an appropriate penalty . |
| 2 | Experience tells us that teachers with specific objectives rather than the general ‘ to find out about industry ’ have the most successful placements . |
| 3 | Children under 13 years in Flanders tend to be placed with foster families rather than in residential care . |
| 4 | She wants to live with foster parents rather than her four brothers and sisters and mother . |
| 5 | This week it was revealed that an 11-year-old girl , who wants to stay with foster parents rather than live with her mother and four brothers and sisters , has launched a similar legal action . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century , the House of Commons forced successive ministries to publish collections of dispatches dealing with Britain 's relations with foreign powers shortly after the events had taken place , simply so that the House could judge whether the policies had been appropriate . |
| 7 | The House controlled a large part of its own timetable , it had a corporate spirit and it could force information out of the government , the best example being the stream of diplomatic Blue Books in which the Foreign Office had to reveal the course of its negotiations with foreign powers almost as soon as the events had occurred . |
| 8 | British studies of family life and family preferences for care for dependants indicate that family members have essentially retained their primary caring role , and prefer care in partnership with public agencies rather than wishing to hand it over ( see Moroney , 1976 ; West , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Lascars were in any case British subjects , and ought , Wilson contended , to enjoy conditions in common with British seamen generally except in the tropics . |
| 10 | Rape tends to be presented as a crime of violence with sexual overtones rather than as simply a sexual offence . |
| 11 | The effect is consequently a reversion to the pre-Anns position of developing new categories of duty incrementally by analogy with established categories rather than by a wide prima facie duty constrained only by undefined ‘ considerations which ought to negate , or to reduce or limit the scope of the duty or the class of persons to whom it is owed ’ . |
| 12 | There is a great deal wrong with quantitative methods just as there is a great deal wrong with qualitative ones . |
| 13 | Briefing sessions , in which failures and why they occur are discussed , are probably best held with outside counsellors rather than company staff . |
| 14 | Distracting techniques are frequently used with pre-school children either before a problem arises or as a palliative once the problem is occurring , for example pointing to an aeroplane flying in the sky to help the child forget that the ice cream van is parked outside the playground . |
| 15 | Individual goals may well be in conflict with organisational goals even where there is a strong commitment to one goal by the organisation . |
| 16 | He deals much more with national issues rather than local ones and has received less media attention as a result . |
| 17 | Still , they have proven themselves to be extremely effective , when compared with conventional methods particularly because of their speed . |
| 18 | Similarly , banks make merchandise loans to enable customers to cope with seasonal imports especially where bulk purchases might ensure considerable discounts . |
| 19 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 20 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 21 | Both propose legislation aimed at dealing with anti-competitive effects rather than the form of an agreement . |
| 22 | so sunil brings two more and i one = total of 10. one more volunteer ? or we could play with then men just as spain did last night to crunch european champs denmark out ? |
| 23 | This machine has long Wipline 6000 floats with integral lockers rather than the standard Edo 4930 units . |
| 24 | The aim is to provide a two-way referral service with legal firms abroad when clients need specific advice , whether they are seeking a business partner , investing capital abroad , buying property , hiring staff or are involved in a dispute . |
| 25 | In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts . |
| 26 | There is thus a rule of construction that if a provision in an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom is ambiguous , it should be given that interpretation which is consistent with international obligations rather than one which conflicts ( Inland Revenue Commissioners v Collco Dealings Ltd [ 1962 ] AC 11 ; similarly , there is some authority for seeking to protect fundamental constitutional statutes from unintentional repeals ( see , e.g. , per Lord Wilberforce in The Earl of Antrim 's Petition [ 1967 ] 1 AC 691 ) If , however , such devices do not evade the problem , then traditional notions of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament require that any provision in any later statute which is inconsistent with any earlier provision repeals the latter to the extent of any inconsistency , whether declared or intended to have this effect or not ( Vauxhall Estates Ltd v Liverpool Corporation [ 1932 ] 1 KB 733 ; Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [ 1934 ] 1 KB 590 ) . |
| 27 | The first two examples discussed below illustrate different ways in which the linguistic model is used to develop a narrative model , and the third , Genette 's Narrative Discourse ( which does not use strictly linguistic analytical categories ) , illustrates somewhat differently the structuralist preoccupation with abstract models rather than with individual texts . |
| 28 | I got pregnant because you spent all my life filling my head with romantic ideas rather than giving me any practical advice . |
| 29 | The security offered by having service managers with nursing skills particularly when working with severely disabled people . |
| 30 | Primordial black holes with initial masses less than this figure would already have completely evaporated , but those with slightly greater masses would still be emitting radiation in the form of X rays and gamma rays . |