Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quakers , for example , dispensed with a professional ministry altogether and held completely unstructured meetings , at which both male and female members of the congregation could testify as and when the spirit moved them ; they also developed their own simple marriage and burial services . |
| 2 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 3 | Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits . |
| 4 | Full mobility would return to the foot eventually and I 'd be climbing again . |
| 5 | The decision demon , which is this one over here , which is p is a cognitive demon , looks at the cogit the output from the cognitive demons , sees which one 's shouting loudest and then decides that that 's the letter . |
| 6 | One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bryan Keith-Lucas has described how during the nineteenth century the local government franchise gradually became based upon general Acts of Parliament rather than on a ‘ medley of jurisdiction and authority ’ deriving from the common law and local Acts ( Keith-Lucas 1952:221 ) . |
| 9 | The results , as we have seen , were parliamentary government in the sense of government through Parliament rather than government by Parliament , with a largely ceremonial head of state . |
| 10 | It does nobody any favour to be termed a heavy drinker rather than an alcoholic . |
| 11 | I suppose she 's thinking of Terry , she thought , and squeezed Sarah 's arm , although Believe Me If All had been Joe 's favourite rather than Terry 's . |
| 12 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | The £4.1 billion jump in bank-lending was month was twice the average monthly increase in 1992 , but economists warned that it reflected a rebound rather than new hope that consumers are taking on significantly bigger borrowings to fuel recovery . |
| 15 | Choose a design that hides the bulb effectively and a heavy base to keep it stable . |
| 16 | His theory connects with Mannheim 's ‘ particular ’ conception of ideology rather than his ‘ total ’ conception in that it is concerned with psychological processes . |
| 17 | Characteristically , the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism . |
| 18 | All three represent fundamental shake-ups and policy shifts , and as their implementation coincides with a ruthless financial squeeze on local government , the council tax and community care may look like empty statements of ideology rather than meaningful new policies . |
| 19 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 20 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 21 | It is a more muscular breed and , though the emphasis has always been slightly in favour of milk rather than meat , the breed is continually tested for growth and food conversion rates , especially as veal production is important . |
| 22 | Most consumers ‘ certainly fail to recognise the implications of agricultural practices and policy ’ , such as subsidies for producing and promoting full-fat milk rather than semi-skimmed or skimmed milk , and those for butter and meat . |
| 23 | Milk was generally carried by passenger trains , but increasingly milk rather than passengers became their raison d'être . |
| 24 | If you have a spinner in your family , you will keep some sheep ; possibly with fleece rather than carcase quality determining the breed . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | The latter question is concerned with a judgement of the aims of the course rather than with the functioning of the course . |
| 27 | The type of household in which the elderly person lives may , in its turn , be a function of the stage he or she has reached in the life course rather than of age per se . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For many of the physical science students , the term ‘ physical science ’ referred to the specific course rather than to a wider discipline ; I therefore reserve many of their comments for a later section . |
| 30 | Further evidence that Castro was pursuing his own course rather than responding to US actions is given by the testimony of US Ambassador Philip Bonsal , who found his efforts to meet with Castro and to pursue negotiations thwarted . |