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Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1	The IFS report Counting People With Low Incomes said that refusal ‘ does nothing to allay fears that the changes were for political rather than bona fide methodological reasons ’ .
2	On the other side was the public sector , enjoying a monopolistic and low-risk position , responding to political rather than consumer preferences , and pre-empting investment funds from more productive areas .
3	Dr Clarke contends that while Keynesianism was overthrown on the pretext that it did not ‘ work ’ , the collapse was political rather than theoretical .
4	He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance .
5	Qaddafi writes about constraints , compulsion , oppression , but as characteristics of states based on political rather than on social ( ‘ natural ’ ) bonds .
6	But their purpose was very different , short-term and political rather than long-term and social ; and that was no longer an outrage .
7	But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside .
8	While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision .
9	However , others feel that , because of the speed of change and because of goal conflict between the professionals involved , educational planning is more difficult and has a political rather than rational dimension .
10	In arts and social science particularly , this led to appointments made for political rather than academic reasons .
11	Despite the entry for a time of media conglomerates such as the Mirror Group and Thomsons into the West African press , I think it is still fair to say that the primary motivation for producing a newspaper in Nigeria is political rather than commercial .
12	Is his illness political rather than physiological ?
13	The employers , with new-found spirit , informed the Minister that labour unrest was the result of political rather than economic conditions , and withdrew from the discussions .
14	Decisions on management structures may themselves be decided on political rather than efficiency grounds ( see Ch. 5 ) .
15	But to suggest that the conflict was over political rather than intellectual matters is to introduce a false antithesis .
16	If , despite that , there is very little direct democracy in most contemporary societies , the reasons for that are political rather than practical or technical : those who occupy positions of power and authority simply do not want it , and actively resist any attempt to bring it into being .
17	The concept of ‘ disorganized ’ capitalism is essentially sociological and political rather than economic and may require qualification at the political level .
18	But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said .
19	A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material .
20	For some farmers and landowners the major impact of the newcomers has therefore been political rather than social , for their arrival in the village has ensured that landownership is no longer the automatic passport to the political domination of the countryside that it was once considered to be .
21	We are being invited to apply considerations of political rather than public policy .
22	Johnson attributed such decline in England to the fact that the bishops were now using other , more political rather than intellectual , methods of gaining preferment .
23	This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations .
24	So far as the malais were concerned , it also made them like Martinho more , in the political rather than personal sense .
25	Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ?
26	It would appear that the objection to local income tax is political rather than practical .
27	Meanwhile , the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , in a speech to the House of Commons on Feb. 22 , said that reforms in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were likely to transform NATO into a political rather than a military alliance .
28	The principal preoccupations of the summit were political rather than economic , focusing on Liberia and the continuing role there of the ECOWAS-sponsored peace-keeping force , ECOMOG [ see p. 38278 ] .
29	The 258 delegates , seated in political rather than national groups , adopted by a large majority a final declaration in favour of a federally based European union , with the EC playing a key role within the UN , the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and NATO ; relations with the Western European Union ( WEU ) would be redefined .
30	Both before and after April 15 attempts continued , especially through the mediation of the Arab League , to find a solution to what was increasingly viewed as a political rather than a legal dispute , centring on whether Libya would agree to extradite two men indicted by the UK and US authorities in November 1991 in connection with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner [ see p. 38599 for this and for separate French efforts to extradite other Libyans ] .