Example sentences of "with [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pelikan 's Mastercolour is a small range which uses water to thin the paint with rather than white spirit or turpentine . |
| 2 | Pelikan 's Mastercolour is a small range which uses water to thin the paint with rather than white spirit or turpentine . |
| 3 | Celsus suggested that they should be gently argued with rather than opposed , and that music and light reading might help to turn their thoughts into a more rational channel . |
| 4 | Cautious as the Council 's immediate formulations almost always were , the outcome was that the Latin liturgy was replaced by the vernacular , the cup was offered to the laity , married men would at least be ordained to the diaconate , Protestant Bible societies were to be worked with , the modern world was to be sympathized with rather than condemned . |
| 5 | An invasion of privacy into the lives of vulnerable individuals is masked by the rhetoric of empowerment with the implication that it is being ‘ done with rather than to trainees ’ ( fay 1988 : 26 ) . |
| 6 | Partners and competitors of IBM Corp that have suffered at the company 's hands will feel a sense of schadenfreude that the company is brought so low , and will reflect on how right they were when they said back in the late 1970s and early 1980s that if the US Justice Department split the company up as it was then threatening to do , they would have four or six IBMs to compete with rather than just one . |
| 7 | The possibility that some neurological damage may occur before delivery and be more pronounced in infants with classic than atypical disease ( and therefore be associated with rather than caused by worse phenylalanine control ) can not be completely discounted . |
| 8 | Everything I have learnt teaches me that it is only when you work with rather than against people that achievement and lasting success is possible . |
| 9 | It is essential to devise strategies for working with rather than against resistance . |
| 10 | However the wording of the Act refers to the person the child lives with rather than any third party regarded as rejecting the opportunity to see the child . |
| 11 | Sightseers are welcome … to watch this magnificent force pulling WITH rather than against the forces of nature . |
| 12 | Indeed , the outermost , ninth sphere might be dispensed with altogether since it was only required to produce the daily motion of the planetary spheres and fixed stars — an economy that would be in keeping with a God who did nothing in vain . |
| 13 | They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman . |
| 14 | They will contain the pre-emption provisions and possibly a list of matters that can be dealt with only if approved by the holders of a certain class of shares ( if not included in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement ) . |
| 15 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 16 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ He has got away with less than two years in prison . |
| 18 | Sotheby 's sale of books about the Orient from the Blackmer library have made £2.2m over the last two days with less than one per cent unsold . |
| 19 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 20 | The Pru says that Britain is becoming a nation of spendthrifts with less than £5 in every £100 of disposable income being saved last year -the lowest level for 30 years — and is encouraging people to save the extra cash . |
| 21 | Open match won with less than 2 lb . |
| 22 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 23 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 24 | With less than nine months to go to the West German election on December 2nd , the East German result also strengthens Mr Kohl 's hold over his centre-right coalition in Bonn . |
| 25 | With less than forty-eight hours before the crucial Cabinet meeting , the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Social Services Secretary were in fundamental disagreement . |
| 26 | Wheat in three further local trials are also throwing up some very irregular-looking ears , in some cases with less than 50% grains set , says Mr Gregory . |
| 27 | One smack with the whip — the first time that Mill Reef had received such encouragement since the Guineas — and he was through a gap between Hallez and Ortis with less than two furlongs to race . |
| 28 | This type of BES has raised £340m this tax year compared with less than £50m in the riskier offerings . |
| 29 | With less than six weeks to go to the Olympic trials , Read , the triple national champion , boosted her confidence by lowering her own eight-month-old 50m backstroke British record with an impressive 30.06sec . |
| 30 | WHEN the first seven horses home finish in a heap , with less than three lengths covering them , it is fair to say that the race in question is not much of a Classic trial . |