Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | It does nobody any favour to be termed a heavy drinker rather than an alcoholic . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Choose a design that hides the bulb effectively and a heavy base to keep it stable . |
| 5 | Characteristically , the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What is particularly interesting is that the report implies that it was MI5 who endlessly delayed any decision rather than the prison authorities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He wanted to be a winner rather than a good loser . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 24 | Of course , some small firms do offer growth potential , but these have to be identified and given appropriate support rather than a general subsidy linked to premises or land . |
| 25 | The OSF/Motif Toolkit will enable users to develop Motif X Window clients on a personal computer rather than a remote host . |
| 26 | The OSF/Motif Toolkit will enable users to develop Motif X Window clients on a personal computer rather than a remote host . |
| 27 | They turned their pages in perfect harmony and experienced a decent run through of a difficult text rather than an intense spiritual journey . |
| 28 | Hence de Man 's constant use of " reading " as a property of the text rather than an intervention from without . |
| 29 | Of the remainder , there are others where the abuse of trust is clearly evident but from the general text rather than the headline . |
| 30 | I do feel a rumbling deep in my stomach , but it is a restless churning rather than an empty one , much like the overturning of soil by an ambling tractor . |