Example sentences of "this [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation is always to deny this rather than confront it , to revert to plans on paper , stick with the safe rather than the exciting even if , at the end of the day with this route , little is achieved . |
| 2 | I am not certain that time and rehabilitation is not the best for this rather than sedating them . |
| 3 | To a Marxist-Leninist , control of resources is power ; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it . |
| 4 | Yes , Mr Smith did , and lie was prepared to face this rather than accept a worsening of conditions . |
| 5 | If so , why did you do this rather than selling your unwanted items and then buying the items you wanted ? |
| 6 | Living should always be like this rather than drudge and more drudge . |
| 7 | Foucault argues that a whole series of movements since the nineteenth century , including various anthropologizing Marxisms , have developed complicitly with this so as to preserve the sovereignty of the subject against Marx 's and others ' decentrings : positivism , the Hegelian Marxism of Lukács , the Marxist humanism of Sartre , as well as various theories of cultural totalities such as that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 8 | It may be helpful to bend down to do this so as to minimize the strain on your back , especially with a heavy dog . |
| 9 | This does not appear to be altogether necessary , having regard to the grade of the inclines , but possibly the condition of the bond has induced them to add this so as to prevent the semblance of a hang to the descending tank . |
| 10 | We shall return to this shortly when seeking a measure of infinitesimal strain . |
| 11 | Work this out as follows . |
| 12 | We can express this mathematically as follows : since where qV is the heat absorbed at constant volume . |
| 13 | Lord Justice went on , quote , I agree with this indeed when making the calculations the judge had to make , those who die early are the only ones which matter because the fact of living longer than the expectation is immaterial . |
| 14 | Do this too where pipe runs are held rigidly by pipe clips , and remove any clips close to right-angled bends to allow the pipe to expand freely . |
| 15 | Do this too where pipe runs are held rigidly by pipe clips , and remove any clips close to right-angled bends , to allow the pipe to expand without constraint . |