Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Lewis passionately wants to beat Bowe inside not outside the ring and is prepared to take a derisory 10 per cent of the projected $30m fight instead of the normal 25 per cent . |
| 2 | But Lewis passionately wants to beat Bowe and is prepared to take 10 per cent of the projected $30m fight instead of the normal 25 per cent . |
| 3 | It would be presumptuous to assume fans switched allegiance overnight and started buying records by The Wedding Present instead of The Smiths . |
| 4 | A FATHER told a murder trial yesterday of the agonising decision to switch off his baby son 's life support machine after he had been severely brain damaged while in the care of the nurse Beverley Allitt . |
| 5 | Tranquilliser addiction , unlike alcohol and illegal drug addiction , is a prescribed problem which cause long term distress instead of the desired short term cure . |
| 6 | Signs outside Dunkirk steered them onto a ring road westward of the town . |
| 7 | I congratulate Southampton university on its success in obtaining funds way ahead of the rate of inflation in order to sustain and increase the work that it carries out . |
| 8 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 9 | For years now I have conducted a personal campaign , always asking if I can have , for example , a five or three amp fuse instead of the one I am given , a 13 amp . |
| 10 | As he leaves , via the door which leads into the wardrobe department instead of the corridor , you hear him saying to two puzzled coat hangers : ) ‘ Hang on . |
| 11 | An alternative way of calculating NI contributions is to use the exact percentage method instead of the tables . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the opening was dogged by controversy , because the track in which the route had been laid was of a type having a 1¼″ groove instead of the normal 1″ groove . |
| 13 | CALMS offers similar facilities but uses the public telephone network instead of the mains for communication . |
| 14 | 5.9.2 Not to assign [ underlet ] or charge part only of the Premises [ and not to underlet the whole or any part of the Premises ] |
| 15 | I think that 's one of the purposes Mr chairman also of the , of the educational seminar that we 're in the throes of organizing , to actually to do that . |
| 16 | In Chapter 3 we identified ten ‘ generic activities ’ which we found to underpin primary classroom practice regardless of the subject labels used by the teacher , and argued that these activities therefore constitute at least as important a curriculum reality — certainly for children — as terms like ‘ topic ’ or even ‘ language ’ . |
| 17 | After the Addison Act both of the minority Labour governments , in power in 1924 and in 1929–31 , extended the local authority house-building programme by means of further subsidies . |
| 18 | In case their faith was wavering , Mr Li , misleadingly dressed in a western business suit instead of the again-fashionable Mao garb , added a reminder of the inevitability of class struggle : ‘ While fostering socialist democracy and the socialist legal system , we must intensify dictatorship by the socialist state apparatus . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm heading for the Forth road instead of the bridge . |
| 20 | The latter were mollified to some extent by the exclusion from the Treaty of anything that would bar some members from forming a smaller customs union ahead of the EEC schedule . |
| 21 | New to the car the circuit and the formula , Mario took pole position ahead of the eventual winner , Jackie Stewart , Graham Hill , John Surtees , Dan Gurney , Jo Siffert and Bruce McLaren , four champions and two others of no indifferent talent . |
| 22 | IC2 is used as the buffer stage in the active lowpass filter ahead of the delay line . |
| 23 | NEC says its new focus on the business market instead of the scientific and engineering market is down to the 36% growth in the latter market . |
| 24 | NEC says its new focus on the business market instead of the scientific and engineering market is down to the 36% growth in the latter market . |
| 25 | Did classical theory surreptitiously admit the quantity theory of money — a theory which only holds good at full employment — through the back door in order to fix the price level independently of the level of money wages ? |
| 26 | With the help of producer Mike McEvoy — who produced a track on the current Soul II Soul LP — she has put together a video promo instead of the usual demo cassettes or industry showcases . |
| 27 | Stewart Wilson of the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford put forward the idea of using a Chinese sailing wheelbarrow instead of the two-wheeled cart which I was considering , and one of his students , Khalid Nazir , made a wooden prototype . |
| 28 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 29 | Thus ruisseler ( to flow ) becomes il ruissèle in the third person singular instead of the prettier il ruisselle . |
| 30 | The clear beneficiary was Tony Benn , who immediately launched a six-month campaign to have himself elected as deputy leader instead of the hated Denis Healey , who was , in the opinion of many , the architect of the sell-out of socialist economic policy during the Wilson-Callaghan government . |