Example sentences of "is [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 2 | Thus the Metropolitan Commissioner 's testimony to a brand of tyre as a major contribution to road safety carries weight because of who he is rather than what he looks like . |
| 3 | The basic theory is rather than with increasing variation in boat shapes and canoeing activity we can no longer use one single approved style of paddling . |
| 4 | Learning is therefore seen in terms of where the child is rather than where we hope he might be . |
| 5 | At home rewards are ‘ ascriptive ’ , depending on who one is rather than on what one does . |
| 6 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 7 | So what you need to do is rather than have a big block of writing okay which is going to look not really in the format of this kind of newspaper is it ? what you tend to get in the tabloids is loads of these little ones . |
| 8 | Someone paid them good money , a lot of money , to do that — this so-called ‘ friend ’ they mentioned — so if I were you I 'd be trying to work out who he is rather than getting on my soapbox . |
| 9 | The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way . |
| 10 | George continued with deliberate diffidence : ‘ It 's all rather confidential I know of course you 'll respect that ; the problem is rather whether you feel you can disclose anything from your side without an official request from Security and I 'm sure you 'll understand why we 'd rather avoid that at this stage … ’ |
| 11 | It is rather as though there is a central axis , around which the gemstone of beauty is formed . |
| 12 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 13 | This is presumably because it allows you to explore the knowledge contained therein . |
| 14 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 15 | This is presumably because it is seldom possible to heal the breach that is usually created by fighting a legal battle . |
| 16 | This is presumably because of the prospect of subsequent litigation . |
| 17 | This is presumably because the intact epithelium acts as a barrier , preventing FGF-4 from reaching the underlying mesenchyme . |
| 18 | This is presumably because the task requires the same cognitive processors as shadowing — both tasks are speech-based . |
| 19 | This is presumably because the situation was not foreseen : the Code takes a very strict line on questioning after charge , a course of action only permitted in very narrowly defined circumstance under caution ( para . |
| 20 | Where there is a definite clicking , which was not found in our patients , the pain is presumably because of the movement of one rib upon another . |
| 21 | There is eventually because you learn it . |
| 22 | Culture is within as well as surrounding us . ’ |
| 23 | But , significantly , this is rarely if ever what those writers advocated . |
| 24 | This moment is very private and is rarely if ever seen by outsiders , not even glimpsed through a window . |
| 25 | The line ferret follows up the work begun by the loose or muzzled ferret , and is rarely if ever encumbered with a muzzle itself . |
| 26 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 27 | This is particularly so in the UK where the social class implications of accent , furnishings and behaviour are so complex that it is rarely if ever possible to produce a domestic situation which is really widely acceptable , in the fullest sense of the word . |
| 28 | Life is rarely as it should be and , given that Bowe ran scared of him , the WBC belt fits just right . |
| 29 | Whilst US administrations certainly have instigated ‘ two-track ’ policies ( for example , in Allende 's Chile ) these have not proved particularly successful , and it would seem that American foreign-policy-making is rarely as well co-ordinated as this analysis suggests . |
| 30 | Home is somewhere where you have space to spread your wings . |