Example sentences of "an [noun] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 2 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 3 | This reflects a clear preference for an offence-based rather than an offender-based tariff and is in line with the proposals contained in the White Paper ( Home Office , 1990a : para. 2.19 ) . |
| 4 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 5 | His spirits lifted only to be dashed half an hour later when the hoarseness reappeared . |
| 6 | It takes a high-speed train one and a half miles to come to a stop from 125 miles an hour even if the driver brakes hard ! |
| 7 | Again the minimal expansion of the spatio-temporal setting will suggest that the man has a drink and talks to the barman within that same club and on that same occasion , within a restricted time-span , say an hour rather than a year . |
| 8 | It was a game that kicked off an hour late after a bomb alert closed White Hart Lane leaving thousands of fans and both teams locked outside for more than two hours . |
| 9 | They give them about an hour there before the curtain goes up . |
| 10 | There is a power to make an award only where a party has acted frivolously , vexatiously or otherwise unreasonably , either for a fixed sum or for taxed costs . |
| 11 | ‘ I see it as an opportunity rather than a pressure , ’ Roxburgh said . |
| 12 | Change became an opportunity rather than a threat . |
| 13 | to be an entitlement rather than an imposition ; |
| 14 | Listening to what you 're saying , all the areas you identify — education , the polytechnic , the reception at the opening , the medical profession — are these areas where the politics of the body are dealt with on an intellectual rather than an experimental level ? |
| 15 | Terrorism was an effect rather than a cause . |
| 16 | Check that clock pulses have an effect only when the data applied to the D-input is new . |
| 17 | These could promote flexibility , and prove an investment rather than a cost ! |
| 18 | There was also a suggestion that the bidder may be a financial buyer , looking at the company as an investment rather than an addition to existing operations . |
| 19 | He stressed that we must capitalise on the traditional Scottish capacity for inventiveness and recognise that education itself is always an investment rather than an on-cost . |
| 20 | Such integration may be seen as reinforcing an allegiant rather than a neutral or alienated orientation to the political system . |
| 21 | A UK exchange will be an RIE rather than a DIE ; overseas exchanges are usually DIEs ( which is an SIB rather than an FSA category ) but some with dealing facilities in the UK , such as the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange , are RIEs . |
| 22 | He did not amplify nor did Lily ask the nature of that risk , but it was a comment he profoundly believed , an emotion rather than a rational thought . |
| 23 | The manager occupied the premises on the basis of being an employee rather than a tenant . |
| 24 | Deciding whether a person is an employee rather than an independent contractor can prove extremely difficult , The 1979 Parsons case ( quoted by Pritchard ) gives some indication of judicial thinking on the matter : |
| 25 | He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years . |
| 26 | However , Ford stresses the limits to the Participative Management programme , that structural changes have been tentative and marginal while cultural change remains an intention rather than an achievement . |
| 27 | That argument was used for not giving heroin or an opiate intravenously because the patient might die at the end of the needle and the GP would be blamed . |
| 28 | It was an admonition more than a reprimand . |
| 29 | Clematis so bristles with brittle green shoots in spring that planting then is an anxiety rather than a pleasure . |
| 30 | She had a slim , girlish figure with small breasts like little apples , and thighs like those of an athlete rather than a glamour girl . |