Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be achieved in many ways : ( 1 ) by differing frequencies and wavelengths in the two sets ( 2 ) by differing rhythmic groupings so that one set of parallels is more energetic than the other ( 3 ) by flexing one set of parallels more than the other . |
| 2 | But Poulantzas argues that this interpretation is a mistake because the policy actually serves the interests of monopolies better than any available alternative , and is thus in line with their strategy . |
| 3 | The press release accompanied a report on Dietary Sugars and Human Disease , which took a government-appointed panel of experts more than two years to prepare . |
| 4 | In agreeing to obey his decision they agreed to follow his judgment of the balance of reasons rather than their own . |
| 5 | In recent years there has also been an increasing trend towards imports of products rather than crude oil which has not helped the domestic oil industry . |
| 6 | For the first time , money purchase schemes have been allowed to contract out ( i.e. pension schemes that depend on the outcome of investments rather than a formula based on contributions ) . |
| 7 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 8 | According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years . |
| 9 | Organisations tend to emphasise the benefits of policies rather than their costs , looking at the objectives to be achieved rather than the resources available . |
| 10 | Science 's empirical connection to the world is an abstracted , or selective , one dealing with the properties , attributes or qualities of phenomena rather than with the phenomena themselves . |
| 11 | After the meeting , the North Americans acknowledged that : ‘ We recognise more clearly what our nation , along with other western powers , has done through its communication resources to dominate other cultures and … serve the interests of transnationals rather than those of people . ’ |
| 12 | We export not only form and content but western economics-based theories of media regulation that serve the interests of transnationals rather than those of peoples . |
| 13 | The annual value of mergers more than trebled from a fairly stable trend in 1966 and 1967 . |
| 14 | What is interesting , however , is the importance of clast size in the breakage of bone , and clearly in a cave environment , where limestone clasts are abundant , angular and often very large , small mammal bones are likely to fragment very quickly indeed , in a matter of minutes rather than hours . |
| 15 | Would it prudent for me to consider both sets of minutes rather than us get into difficulty ? |
| 16 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 17 | Public debate about rural housing policy has , however , preferred not to acknowledge such social control implications and preferred instead to deal in terms of houses rather than their inhabitants . |
| 18 | — ROKER Park will attract a host of scouts tonight as manager Malcolm Crosby gears up for his end-of-season sales . |
| 19 | Culyer ( 1973 ) suggested a possible compromise in order to allocate all inputs ; that is , to allocate in terms of activities rather than in terms of the end product of those activities . |
| 20 | ‘ whether … its members can work as a team while they are apart , contributing to a sequence of activities rather than to a common task , which requires their presence in one place and at one time . ’ |
| 21 | To some extent , this must be a reflection on the methodology which we adopted , concentrating as we did on interviewing key actors and observing the development , processing , and implementation of proposals rather than focusing on , for example , the teaching methods of individual teachers or the reading habits of individual pupils . |
| 22 | However , in the more recent evaluation of NAEP , which seems preoccupied with the needs of researchers rather than policymakers , Wirtz and Lapointe ( 1982 ) maintain that more effort is needed to interpret results and suggest an independent council to carry this out . |
| 23 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 24 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 25 | I could continue considerably longer on this fascinating subject , in fact I have several pages of notes here if anybody wishes to come and ask me any questions . |
| 26 | But in Stephen Jameson 's performance he looks like Beckett 's Pozzo or a Daily Worker cartoon of a bloated capitalist : bounced around the stage at one point like a rubber doll , he becomes a figure from a comedy of humours rather than a semi-Chekhovian fantasia . |
| 27 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 28 | This is not to say that workers necessarily believed or accepted the new image of employers especially as during the 1950s memories of the pre-war era were clearly resonant . |
| 29 | Firstly , the results may simply be due to chance since a search for clusters is likely to reveal some spatial aggregations of cases even if there is no causal explanation : this is particularly true if the age groups , areas , calendar periods , and diagnostic groups to be studied are not specified in advance . |
| 30 | Suppose we measure smoking concordance as the percentage of cases where if one twin has the smoking habit then so does the other . |