Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as naturally as breath and dreamt them up , |
| 2 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 3 | To reassemble the joint , use a non-setting mastic rather than putty and apply it liberally to the socket . |
| 4 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 5 | Many think , like Stanley and Wise ( 1983 ) , that women should be doing feminism , rather than learning or theorizing it . |
| 6 | It was his parents rather than John that helped them financially . |
| 7 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |
| 8 | The committee of the Celtic Plate Tournament at Blackwell Grange Golf Club raised more than £400 and donated it to the hospice in memory of their colleague Jock Taylor who died recently . |
| 9 | Lenders ' information needs are concerned with the ability of the government to meet its contractual obligations , as well as information that enables them to compare the return they receive with alternative investments . |
| 10 | And also we 've got ta go down to minus one , so we 'll put it there and hope and pray we 've got enough on this time . |
| 11 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 12 | Between As Cain and Sare you go over the Col Saint-Ignace , a very modest affair of some 500 feet . |