Example sentences of "[vb base] a [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are often infrastructural assets which have no determinable useful life , are not readily disposable , have no readily determinable market value , and which provide a social rather than a commercial service . |
| 2 | You want a six preferably or a king or five , yeah . |
| 3 | So I 'm going to do erm a half add a third okay and a third add a quarter and a half take away a third okay and I 'll give you another one to do How about this one . |
| 4 | Military commanders sometimes push a salient forward but at other times they advance on a broad front . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) and EHOS strongly recommend that caterers use a commercial rather than a domestic model . |
| 6 | A recent report of the Institute of Directors on the professional development of directors ( 1990 ) led a spokesman to say that ‘ it is not surprising that many boards do an adequate rather than an excellent job ’ ( quoted in The Independent , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ No player … has shown greater ability to retain possession of the ball … his passes are invariably accurate and reach a forward so that the latter can make rapid headway ’ eulogised a Palace scribe back in 1913 , by which time H.H. ( as he was popularly called ) had become our club captain — indeed it was while Harry was our skipper that we had our best Southern League season and went within an ace of winning the Championship in 1914 . |
| 8 | Some sources have a subtle rather than a very strong and obvious bias . |
| 9 | Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words . |
| 10 | Grierson ( 1961 ) has suggested that seventh century coins have a social rather than a commercial significance . |
| 11 | However , most sociologists would argue that systems of racial stratification have a social rather than a biological basis . |
| 12 | The law and procedure of his court have an international rather than a purely English character ; it administers a law which is to be found in the medieval maritime codes , such as the Laws of Oleron and the so-called Law of Rhodes ; in the background , as a supplementary law , is the Civil or Roman law . |