Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One aim was to organise learning activities so that the two groups of pupils would have real reasons to work together and learn from each other . |
| 2 | Being able to work together and learn from each other is especially important . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister said that he had the resignation of his Cabinet in his pocket , but the King replied that he trusted there was no question of the Prime Minister 's resignation : the leaders of the three Parties must get together and come to some arrangement . |
| 4 | If that is wrong , let them tell us why , rather than differentiate between dead bodies on the basis of whether a diagnosis was made before or after death , or whether the patient stops breathing in the accident and emergency department rather than a medical ward . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The SNH chairman , Magnus Magnusson , said : ‘ It is essential that we focus every effort towards prevention , rather than cure of accidental pollution . ’ |
| 7 | Japanese firms prefer to conspire rather than compete with each other , complain American rivals , and now they are doing it in our own backyard |
| 8 | For many of us , working as a group to make the East End Open Studios even a success has been a rare chance to cooperate rather than compete with other artists . |
| 9 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 10 | It is best to use lime rather than cement for this type of infill |
| 11 | Strewth , this all sounds a tad highbrow for a group who persistently hanker after the pleasures of life rather than moan about dark clouds on the horizon . |
| 12 | Strewth , this all sounds a tad highbrow for a group who persistently hanker after the pleasures of life rather than moan about dark clouds on the horizon . |
| 13 | It was found that single daughters , as carers , were under greater pressure to give up work or take part-time employment rather than remain in full employment ( Wright , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | The new songs , which follow the brief rewind through absurdo oldster ‘ Fishes Eyes ’ , are big , bold rough-house dance things which actually cohere rather than drift into percussive jam no-man's-land . |
| 15 | The campaign comes as the government 's community care policy seeks to persuade more frail elderly people to stay in their own homes rather than go into residential care . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | RATHER THAN SIT THROUGH ten minutes of The Pocket Dream , any sensible person , unlikely as it may sound , would prefer three hours of wife-beating , child abuse , paranoia , and the rape of a mentally-retarded woman in The Crackwalker , the first drama by the Canadian playwright Judith Thompson to be seen here . |
| 18 | What is more , these helices in their turn aggregate , rather than disperse as bacterial cells in fluid culture usually do , and give a living , growing structure . |
| 19 | But it soon came to be realized that any breakaway plasma would disperse into the void rather than condense into solid bodies . |
| 20 | The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index . |
| 21 | Rather than speculate on this increase here , the reasons for female involvement in heroin use will be examined more fully in Chapter 4 . |
| 22 | A proper matching of these liabilities is known as a back to back arrangement , and the best way of dealing with this issue is to negotiate a full back to back subcontract rather than rely on standard conditions . |
| 23 | Rather than rely on common law , it is normal practice for purchasers to specify in the sale agreement the basis on which damages will be calculated . |
| 24 | ‘ I wanted to know why I could n't have children and what was wrong with me , rather than talk to other people who could n't . ’ |
| 25 | Rather than launch into these discussions with yet another set of theories , the aim of teaching in the New Testament department is to help students to go back to the verses and passages themselves for new insights and new understanding . |
| 26 | The majority of elderly people would far rather stay in their own homes rather than live in residential homes , however good that home may be . |
| 27 | These realities , pressures and residual doubts probably add rather than detract from Soviet incentives to favour a pre-emptive , lightning offensive , carried out with a minimum of warning and consultation . |
| 28 | Already we have seen microspeciation occurring in trees in Trinidad and Tobago ( section 6.2.6 ) , but it has also been suggested that in crossing major faunal boundaries , plant species may undergo so-called ‘ cryptic ’ speciation with major differences in fruit sizes and so on , associated with different dispersers ; i.e. obscured rather than obscure in that herbarium material is rarely preserved with fully ripe fruits and complete field notes . |
| 29 | If clients are better able to use another office , the team will direct them to it rather than act as key workers . |
| 30 | Headmen were inclined to use police powers in their own interests rather than act as bureaucratic tools . |