Example sentences of "[conj] opposed to [adj] other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would not want to suggest that attending football games on Saturdays , as opposed to any other day , was rule-governed if matches are only ever played on Saturdays . |
| 2 | What is so special about higher education as opposed to any other part of the educational system ? |
| 3 | Either we pursue the need for the blue route as opposed to any other route to the north of Harrogate , or the County Council puts on record , I E in a letter to the panel , that it proposes to amend the key diagram . |
| 4 | Thus in a wardship case decided before the implementation of the Children Act , Re G ( No 2 ) ( a Minor ) ( Child abuse : Evidence ) [ 1988 ] 1 FLR 314 , it was held that a more stringent degree of probability was required to satisfy a court that a father , as opposed to any other person , had sexually abused his daughter . |
| 5 | Why , for example , would a politician with the wide-ranging interests of Lord Fife lay such pointed emphasis upon the placing of such a minor official as a tide waiter , writing that he wished William King to be appointed at Macduff Down Creek , as opposed to any other location in that district ? |
| 6 | Thus , it is assumed that a test of linguistic ability actually measures language as opposed to some other characteristic . |