Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political parties provided the labels with which electors could identify , and elections became gladiatorial contests between parties rather than between individual candidates . |
| 2 | Any other business , it was agreed that the new committee should be asked to consider the possibility of holding meetings after rehearsals rather than on Saturday or Sunday afternoons . |
| 3 | Maturin 's secret missions and Aubrey 's orders involved them in dangers very often due to the malice or ambition of individuals rather than to the fortunes of war . |
| 4 | The upshot of all this is more problems for hard-stretched environmental departments — and more court cases that are decided unsatisfactorily , more on the whims of magistrates rather than on concise technical criteria . |
| 5 | The variations in their prosperity depended often on how far the developing cloth trade affected individual places ; some towns undoubtedly grew , particularly in the early sixteenth century , but they often did so at the expense of others rather than through a serious movement of population from the countryside , although some such drift occurred . |
| 6 | Analysis of birth weight in kilograms rather than by centiles did not affect these correlations , the absolute value for the whole cohort correlating with the standardised β cell function ( r s =0.28 ( p=0.007 ) . |
| 7 | In short , those passages which rely for their effect on colour-contrasts rather than on colour-blending are most suitable for wind alone . |
| 8 | One example of this was the frequent necessity to enter data on transactions twice because of the lack of integration of fundholding and clinical software systems . |
| 9 | The rise in the share of transfers ( pensions , dole , etc. ) also probably took the form ( as it did over the period as a whole ; see chapter 9 ) of an extension of coverage of schemes rather than of a growth in real value in excess of productivity . |
| 10 | This is because figures were usually calculated for groups of speakers rather than for individuals , a practice which seemed to fit in neatly with Labov 's theoretical position that the locus of systematic variation was the group rather than the individual . |
| 11 | I have been struggling with my marriage for years largely because of my mood swings . |
| 12 | Although new galleries , squats and collectives are opening up spaces , there is n't the same sense of dialogue between artists here as in New York . |
| 13 | Examples are fewer , it seems , than for matrilines but include spider monkeys , the red colobus , chimpanzees , and also the hamadryas baboon when movements between clans rather than in and out of harems is considered . |
| 14 | The small piece of hedge , woven like a basket with the traditional hazel and willow , is now planted facing the harbour side for the benefit of photographers rather than at right angles to the bank . |
| 15 | ‘ It is impossible ’ , Bukharin maintained , ‘ to struggle against the enslavement of nations otherwise than by struggling against imperialism , ergo … by struggling against finance capitalism , ergo , against capitalism in general ’ . |
| 16 | In all these cases regional incentives might be important , but only in the context of a need to reduce costs and an ability to move , rather than as the initial motivation , and as part of a bundle of considerations rather than as a separable ‘ factor ’ . |
| 17 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 18 | The restatement holds that no identical systems will emerge , and that the convergence of industrial societies is towards a range of alternatives rather than to a particular point . |
| 19 | I think that many of us would prefer to see falling rolls as a chance to reduce class size , thus giving pupils a better chance of carrying out practical work in pairs rather than in groups of three or even four . |
| 20 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |
| 21 | It would seem certain that this last bar has been constructed on a basis of counter-parallelisms rather than on any tonal scheme . |
| 22 | It will inevitably by called ‘ blackthorn ’ , which should not be in flower for a month , bringing its ‘ winter ’ with it , and growing on short-jointed tangles of stems rather than on the slender longer shoots of these bushy trees . |
| 23 | Indicative Drug Budgets will act as an aid to monitoring the prescribing costs of GPs rather than as a direct cash payment to them from which they pay the pharmacists . |
| 24 | I employ comparison in order to get to grips with relations rather than as a realist method of generating ‘ … conceptually informed causal analysis ’ ( Dickens et al . , |
| 25 | It is worth noting here that first , it is through an emphasis on language that the only direct links are made with the work of the Committee , and second , reviews of works on language are the only ones which attend to textbooks in schools rather than in universities . |
| 26 | The reign of Cnut has tended to attract relatively little attention from historians largely because of the scarcity of the sources . |
| 27 | Other investment — in patents and licences , for example — may be intended to deny ideas to rivals rather than to search for useful products . |
| 28 | So far this has been confined to states with lifetimes longer than about one millisecond ( ’ isomeric ’ states ) but experiments are under way to study excited slates in nuclei with lifetimes as short as microseconds . |
| 29 | As chapter 3 suggested , nationalized industry chairmen in Britain , on the rare occasions that they lose their positions , do so for political disagreements with ministers rather than through incompetent performance . |
| 30 | Professor Cox and his team compromise by stressing the value of knowledge and grammatical discipline , while recommending that these should be achieved through experience with words rather than through the study of grammatical terms in isolation . ’ |