Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try flavouring any salads , vegetables , or cooked main dishes with pepper or herbs instead of salt . |
| 2 | The [ defendants ] do return forthwith to [ their ] London branch or branches from which such documents emanated any documents or copies thereof of the type described in paragraph 1(a) of this order which the [ defendants have ] already removed from the jurisdiction in connection with the said subpoena , and [ defendants are ] hereby restrained until trial or further order without the prior written consent of the plaintiffs from delivering up or disclosing such documents to the said grand jury or any other third party . |
| 3 | Use smoked mackerel , smoked trout or kippers instead of smoked salmon to make a pate and use other vegetables for the kebabs . |
| 4 | And it observes that the use of regulation or taxes instead of the market creates inefficiencies and slows economic growth . |
| 5 | University graduates became accountants , solicitors , or stock-brokers instead of entering industry . |
| 6 | Professor George Stigler , a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics , has argued that ‘ Economists might serve a more useful purpose if they fought fires or termites instead of monopoly . |
| 7 | Surgeons , for example , could change their techniques and some of their equipment or materials , and use surgical staples or adhesives instead of sharp and potentially hazardous needles and thread . |
| 8 | According to social security legislation , a " seasonal worker " is a " person whose employment is for part or parts only of the year and those parts fall at approximately the same time each year . " |
| 9 | It seems to demonstrate that secretaries instead of being secretaries expect to become executives , which was presumably not in the job terms of reference when they applied . |
| 10 | Mansell never got further than 1.6secs ahead of Senna , the gap rising and falling as they began to work their way through the back-markers on lap 15 . |
| 11 | He finished the race , nevertheless , still more than 20secs ahead of the Jaguar . |
| 12 | First , preference shares may not be issued on a secured basis whereas loan stock can be charged on the offeror 's assets and ranks ahead of unsecured creditors ( both present and future ) . |
| 13 | By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location . |
| 14 | As I 've already hinted at even with our products and products most of our customers today in fact are implementing departmental systems . |
| 15 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 16 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 17 | William Packer states : ‘ In this instance the paintings and drawings from the figure are all portraits — heads and shoulders only of a handful of his familiar models long fixed within his closest acquaintance ’ . |
| 18 | On its whistle-stop tour of the Pacific his Floating Island — an Oahu with propellers — found Polynesian gentlemen in waistcoats and wing-collars instead of savages in feathers . |
| 19 | Half of the furniture and furnishings however of the twenty-five room Château de Saint-Paul en Cornillon ( an eleventh-century castle perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Loire near Lyon , estimated at FFr20 million and on sale separately through a Paris notaire ) went unsold , with one-third in terms of value being bought in . |
| 20 | Few looked upon parties in a favourable light and majorities even of party identifiers were unable to Perceive any important differences between what the Republican and Democratic parties stood for . |
| 21 | I remember reading about the haunting of old Edge Lane Hall and years later of that dreadful disaster the Titanic sinking . |
| 22 | The ladies , who run about a third of the distance of the men 's race and carry twenty kilo sacks , can win similar prizes , a trophy , voucher , money and goblets instead of tankards . |
| 23 | It is unusual for two reasons : he used the powdered bone of the toad with drawing oils and substances instead of with jading substances as most horsemen in Suffolk did ; again , the description of the actual ritual of getting with all the attendant circumstances is of the deepest interest . |
| 24 | The church is built of white Pentelic marble and is decorated by sculptured slabs and panels mainly of decorated marble taken from other buildings , thus illustrating a mixture of Greek classical and early Byzantine work from egg and dart carving to signs of the zodiac and dragons ( 211 and 213 ) . |
| 25 | Darcy focuses his own feelings on an Eritrean woman , a ‘ splendid bureaucrat ’ now based in Frankfurt but currently visiting the front line to renew her networks of information , and dreams hazily of a future sexual relationship with her until he discovers that she had once undergone , at the hands of the Dergue , such stomach-churning extremes of physical torture that ‘ my distance from such a height of anguish disqualified me . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps it 's enough to be Scarlet , who has to see a therapist and dreams only of early retirement and death . |
| 27 | Yet the Community is still too much an organisation for businessmen and bureaucrats instead of citizens and communities . |
| 28 | He complained at length about a Gallic bishop called Aldebert , who held services at springs and groves instead of in properly consecrated churches , spurned the established saints ' cults by distributing his own finger-nails as saintly relics , and invoked the names of archangels which were not to be found in the Bible . |
| 29 | Women are generally ranked lower than men , and wives lowest of all . |
| 30 | Hotels and inns generally of small scale with acceptable facilities and furnishings . |