Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it can be a great deal of fun even if the stakes are quite high . |
| 2 | If prevention of future misconduct occurs , it does so as a result of negotiation rather than the deterrence which ( presumably ) inhibits future rule-breaking in a sanctioning system . |
| 3 | It is the fear of exclusion rather than the positive desire to be included that is driving these countries to apply for EC membership . |
| 4 | There is often a fast turnover of patients especially if the surgical ward is one which deals with a large number of minor procedures , which involve only one night in hospital or for which the patient is admitted as a " day case " . |
| 5 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 6 | Having come out of that side of politics rather than the other , I always start where people are , and with what they want , and what their lives are like , and what will help them . |
| 7 | And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York . |
| 8 | BT is now crawling into the age of the silicon chip and the death of the British Telecommunications Bill , which would have allowed the government to sell off about half of BT , does not have to calm this wind of change even if the Labour party wins the election and reinstates BT 's monopoly . |
| 9 | They believed that , instead of conferring greater powers on provincial governors , the regime should create an additional network of provincial administrators who would owe their allegiance to the tsar and whose prime purpose would be the maintenance of order rather than the fostering of local initiative . |
| 10 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 11 | We have decided that in April 1992 there will be a flat rate reduction of £2 rather than the £3 of last year . |
| 12 | More critical for our present concern ( which is the need to explain the context-specificity of latent inhibition ) is the fact that latent inhibition can be abolished by a change of context even when the test context is fully familiar , provided that pre-exposure to the test context and the target stimulus have taken place separately . |
| 13 | Nothing concentrates the mind of the pursuer 's solicitor more than the possibility that he may require to look to his own client for payment of expenses rather than the defender ! |
| 14 | But gender distinctions in the case of human referents are not arbitrary , and that is why Lyons , for instance , suggests that what is important in communication is the pronominal function of gender rather than the category of gender in general ( 1968 ) . |
| 15 | It 's kind of cack though cos the is so small . |
| 16 | I think those 'd probably be better with that kind of response rather than the previous one |
| 17 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 18 | As Pascal observes in The Pensées , ‘ Nothing strengthens the case of scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptic . |
| 19 | Banana plants still indicate the presence of bananas even if the actual fruits are out of sight . |
| 20 | It could be the sour smell of misfortune rather than the suspicion that he does n't know what he really wants which could mock the prediction that here is the next Conservative Prime Minister but one . ’ |
| 21 | more concerned with the promo–on of health rather than the cure of ill-health . |
| 22 | The Staff Motor Engineer can be instructed where the nature of the damage is within his current field of operation e.g. where the Plant could have been equally well insured under Special Type Motor Policies . |
| 23 | Even his overseas expansion was prescribed by rational identification of opportunity rather than the quasi-imperialism that typified much of the ambition in the UK advertising agency sector . |
| 24 | Let's have a look , then , at my little circuit of friends just as the calendar tells us that a new year is dawning … |
| 25 | The promise refers to the post-resurrection days ; it does not provide an exception to Mark 's sharp portrait of Jesus alone as the man uniquely possessed by the Holy Spirit . |
| 26 | This is that living organisms exist for the benefit of DNA rather than the other way around . |
| 27 | In many cases , the state of destination will either accept the classification of the state of origin , or waive any right it may have to reject the document under Article 4 , or simply serve the document as an act of goodwill even if the Convention is regarded as not strictly applicable . |
| 28 | Although , as I soon found out , the Russians themselves were models of inefficiency and poor organization , they nevertheless believed that anything that went wrong was a deliberate act of sabotage rather than the normal sort of mistake which occurs in every large organization . |
| 29 | The King now prepared to mount an attack on Granada and , thanks to the request of his queen in a personal letter to Rodrigo , El Cid joined him , raising the siege of Leira just as the city was about to capitulate rather than fail Alfonso . |
| 30 | As a result , sex became a crucial target of power organised around the management of life rather than the sovereign threat of death . |