Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
| 2 | It means a government whose chief policies were offered to the voters before the election rather than concocted in political trading after it . |
| 3 | They are interested in what new machinery is available , certainly , but at the moment it 's a case of window-shopping rather than parting with hard cash . |
| 4 | The biotechnology companies would then directly buy a licence for a particular technique rather than negotiating with individual universities . |
| 5 | Increased earnings , grabbed as a result of strike action rather than earned by increased productivity and profitability had always been subsequently eaten away by inflation . |
| 6 | Furthermore , rivals may , owing to the different combination of activities in their groups , not be able to bear initial losses , which would cause financial distress rather than lead to balanced growth . |
| 7 | But it soon came to be realized that any breakaway plasma would disperse into the void rather than condense into solid bodies . |
| 8 | He packed his writing tray away whilst speculating on other possibilities . |
| 9 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 10 | There can be no alternative now but to press for guaranteed and unrestricted verifications , backed up by tougher international penalties against violators and greater pressure on all nations to accede to the treaty . |
| 11 | We drink sherry up on the roof here and converse in formal and limited English . |
| 12 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 13 | After two to three years there , another signal prompts the now adult salmon to change hue again and return to fresh water to spawn . |
| 14 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , she was somewhat freer than the Newham development officer to concentrate on putting in support worker help rather than liaising with other services . |
| 16 | One method ( Ingersoll et al. , 1984 ) obviates this by identifying minerals within the clast , rather than the complete clast , although this produces a modal composition based on total mineralogy rather than based on detrital grain mineralogy . |
| 17 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |
| 18 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 19 | The main problem was that if the new devolved NHS services were to replace the asylums ' treatment , then a structure of long-term support would be needed for those who , albeit now being able to live in the community rather than vegetate as long-term inpatients , still mostly required structured day care or home visiting or occupation . |
| 20 | The project , established in tandem with a similar effort mounted by the US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency , aims to encourage business to monitor its entire production process rather than looking for piecemeal solutions . |
| 21 | However , if the old debt is left in place rather than replaced by new money , ss 238 , 239 and 245 of the Insolvency Act 1986 need to be considered . |
| 22 | ‘ The Boys ’ , as they were known , formed their own team rather than play in established youth sides but were dismissed from the local league for fighting and violent play . |
| 23 | The second , called " product segmentation " , focuses on how consumers or buyers perceive , group together and differentiate between available brands , products or services . |
| 24 | The second , called " product segmentation " , focuses on how consumers or buyers perceive , group together and differentiate between available brands , products or services . |
| 25 | Product segmentation This focuses on how consumers or buyers perceive , group together and differentiate between available brands , products or services . |
| 26 | The products of their industry were of course quite fresh and unpatinated , whereas the genuine flint artefacts had a white or brown patination especially if buried in chalky soil . |
| 27 | Note : A moment ago while passing in mild lapse of attention , the above came into my mind with great distinctness . |
| 28 | Unresponsive export markets led many houses to turn their attention inwards and focus on long-neglected domestic sales . |
| 29 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 30 | The Bank of England has , for many years , sought to make this a continuous operation and it seeks to buy stock approaching maturity rather than waiting for legal redemption dates . |