Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also interesting to note that even though the fertility rate of female textile workers was low from the beginning of the period , this was not the case in Preston , probably because the women weavers tended to be married to general labourers rather than to fellow textile workers , again suggesting that it was the occupational status and attitudes of the husband that were more important . |
| 2 | Managers commonly talk of ‘ strategies ’ that concern inputs rather than outputs . |
| 3 | ( d ) Control is primarily exercised on the budget inputs rather than its outputs . |
| 4 | It stresses inputs rather than outputs by providing data on what government consumes instead of data about what government does or the purposes for which money is spent . |
| 5 | When your turn comes to go in , gather up your possessions slowly and deliberately . |
| 6 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
| 7 | Its buildings were functional , housing engineering plant , looms , rope works and warehouses rather than the genteel families of Georgian businessmen . |
| 8 | When her mother came and sat beside her , twisting her fingers nervously and pulling on and off her gloves , lifting and laying down her basket in agitation , Lily rallied a little . |
| 9 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 10 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 11 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 12 | Police and army behaviour and tactics had been improved to some extent , especially in appreciating the need for reform policies rather than simple oppression . |
| 13 | Women working in West Belfast do so in spite of government policies rather than because of them . |
| 14 | Thus subject departments and individual teachers are to be involved in forming curriculum policies rather than having rights over such policies . |
| 15 | Organisations tend to emphasise the benefits of policies rather than their costs , looking at the objectives to be achieved rather than the resources available . |
| 16 | The report described the three-year " programme for economic and social progress " agreed in January 1991 between the government , employers , trade unions and farmers [ see p. 37967 ] , as indicating " renewed commitment " to medium-term macroeconomic policies rather than " short-term activism " . |
| 17 | They attempted to demonstrate that equity value is dependent on the success or failure of the firm 's investment policies rather than any deliberate policy concerning dividends . |
| 18 | The minimal structural nature of these ‘ welfare states ’ can be seen to have arisen out of their regime 's policies rather than be created by them . |
| 19 | Does n't it give you two policies rather than one to batter Mr Earle with , or his colleague ? |
| 20 | As a committed Labour Party member I can not condone nor understand why , with the country suffering from Tory fatigue , the Labour Party does not thrust home its policies rather than become embroiled in this negative smear and counter-smear campaign . |
| 21 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 22 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 23 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 24 | Since substitution and ellipsis are purely grammatical relations which hold between linguistic forms rather than between linguistic forms and their meanings , the details are highly language-specific and are therefore not worth going into here . |
| 25 | Theodor Adorno , on the contrary , has produced what are perhaps the most considered , influential , and lengthy analyses of modernist art ; yet these analyses tend to be formalist , to ignore the realm of popular culture , and to focus rather singularly on the production of cultural forms rather than on the social bases of their reception . |
| 26 | The 300dpi world will probably start to move to 400dpi fairly shortly but the vendors first need to make the move to using outline fonts rather than bitmaps . |
| 27 | Proof that these outbursts are overflow or vacuum activities rather than pathological fits can be found by comparing the indoor behaviour of hard-living rural cats , with that of lap-of-luxury town cats . |
| 28 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 29 | The Schneiderei 's six-member managing committee of writers , musicians and visual artists ( Margaret Bozionek , Heinz Conrads , Jutta Rinas , Ingrid Roscheck , Manos Tsangaris and Thomas Witzmann ) abhor the description ‘ alternative ’ , but the collective 's soft-sell policy by which works are sold to further the gallery 's own activities rather than for profit has helped it to weather the uneasy times faced by traditional commercial galleries . |
| 30 | Culyer ( 1973 ) suggested a possible compromise in order to allocate all inputs ; that is , to allocate in terms of activities rather than in terms of the end product of those activities . |