Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [subord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quality : If a firm makes a component rather than buys it from an external party it has greater control over the quality of the component . |
| 2 | By luck rather than judgement they chose what , in publishing terms , was a good , if late , launch date , 14 October 1966 . |
| 3 | Paddy would have seen the trail better than I. He often rode ‘ shot-gun ’ on the roof-rack . |
| 4 | We have several capital projects which will take us into new and exciting areas and if we ride out this recession better than others we will have the opportunity to make further acquisitions to expand our core activities . |
| 5 | It recommends that France take a second look at following the policy that US President Jimmy Carter adopted of storing radioactive waste rather than reprocessing it . |
| 6 | Mostly , I feel so inadequate that I think almost anyone could do the job better than I. I mean , Karen 's trained and Edna s had a lifetime s experience . |
| 7 | Otherwise , if the oil is not at the right temperature , you end up boiling the food rather than deep-frying it . ’ |
| 8 | So while the whole point of the argument , and rightly , is that when gender is understood as culture rather than nature we see that gender is implicated in all aspects of culture , in practice the argument rarely gets oft the bed . |
| 9 | In matters that concerned human conduct rather than religion he was generous and humane . |
| 10 | Plans can be designed to " failsafe " in the sense that failure returns the organisation to its base position rather than propels it to disaster . |
| 11 | No , in this country up until Christmas I 've got about a hundred pound include , including getting Christmas presents , from now too December the twenty-sixth . |
| 12 | In our time together as lovers we had talked of life after death . |
| 13 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |