Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the state as ; rising from an explicit or implicit contract among men to put themselves under ; single sovereign ( which could be a parliament rather than a king ) which would establish peace among them . |
| 2 | Its buildings were functional , housing engineering plant , looms , rope works and warehouses rather than the genteel families of Georgian businessmen . |
| 3 | It does nobody any favour to be termed a heavy drinker rather than an alcoholic . |
| 4 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 5 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 6 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 7 | One example given of a " dream " in this state of relaxed wakefulness reads more like a fantasy of wish-fulfilment rather than a sleeping dream account , although others were remarkably " dreamlike " . |
| 8 | Choose a design that hides the bulb effectively and a heavy base to keep it stable . |
| 9 | We shall look at these functions in a moment , but it will be useful to think in terms of certain places in the landscape being the foci for single activities rather than a whole range of functions . |
| 10 | Characteristically , the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism . |
| 11 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 12 | ‘ At Boston , for example ( an A to B course rather than an out-and-back course ) in a year when there is a strong following wind , they 're going to set phenomenal times . |
| 13 | They too , therefore , have difficulty in arriving at a foreign policy reached by means of a unanimous decision rather than a foreign policy based on a majority decision . |
| 14 | What is particularly interesting is that the report implies that it was MI5 who endlessly delayed any decision rather than the prison authorities . |
| 15 | While there is a good deal of intuitive sense in the observation that social workers and teachers respond to financial and other economic incentives like most workers , it is a hypothesis rather than an empirically supported contention . |
| 16 | I am sure my hon. Friend well remembers the Committee stage of the Atomic Weapons Establishment Act 1991 when we had great difficulty in discussing the measure properly because the Department would not release the necessary information . |
| 17 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 18 | In North East Wales fireplaces are found on sidewalls rather than the upper end of the hall against the gable , as in South East Wales . |
| 19 | Although it is a Kunsthalle rather than a collection , Hamish Fulton 's wall text ‘ Rock Fall Echo Dust ’ decorates the entrance hall and Richard Wentworth and Swiss artist , Anne Sauser-Hall , are making small sculptures to be installed discreetly on the stairwell . |
| 20 | He wanted to be a winner rather than a good loser . |
| 21 | In a family in which ‘ asking ’ is always done by a threatening fist , and physical violence is the usual means of expressing ill-temper or frustration , the difference between welfare and ill-fare is the strength of the blow rather than the fact that it happened . |
| 22 | Since one usually needs to measure emission from only a small area of the viewing field rather than the whole field , a fibre-optic probe inserted in the light path would probably be the best method , with the light-pipe output directed on to a highly sensitive photoelectric cell or photomultiplier , whose output would also have to be calibrated against some standard phosphor . |
| 23 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 24 | What I want is an institute which is a centre for architects : a very different concept and one which puts the emphasis on the human capacity for individual creativity rather than the resulting artefact . |
| 25 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 26 | Moldavia , also a part of the Kievan state , was however a Latin rather than a Slavic community and had originally constituted part of the Roman province of Dacia . |
| 27 | Recent reports indicate that only 100 houses rather than the projected 200 per annum have been provided which suggests a rather slow take-off ( Gilg 1981 , p. 110 ) . |
| 28 | By the mid century respectable citizens were thoroughly alarmed at this revolutionary alliance , by then in the hands of the radical agitators and journalists of the cheap lodging houses rather than the instrument of conspirators in the clubs and lodges . |
| 29 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 30 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |