Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [prep] " 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 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 3 | Bryan Keith-Lucas has described how during the nineteenth century the local government franchise gradually became based upon general Acts of Parliament rather than on a ‘ medley of jurisdiction and authority ’ deriving from the common law and local Acts ( Keith-Lucas 1952:221 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ whether … its members can work as a team while they are apart , contributing to a sequence of activities rather than to a common task , which requires their presence in one place and at one time . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Similarly , Plowden ( 1985 , p. 407 ) complains that the focus is ‘ almost entirely on the costs of governmental activities rather than on their quality ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The type of household in which the elderly person lives may , in its turn , be a function of the stage he or she has reached in the life course rather than of age per se . |
| 14 | For many of the physical science students , the term ‘ physical science ’ referred to the specific course rather than to a wider discipline ; I therefore reserve many of their comments for a later section . |
| 15 | The latter question is concerned with a judgement of the aims of the course rather than with the functioning of the course . |
| 16 | Secondly we have already noted that banks are opening more accounts for lower-paid people , alongside the trend towards payment of wages through bank accounts rather than in cash . |
| 17 | ‘ Trade union involvement must remain at the heart of the party but it must be based far more on individual choice and decision rather than through the exercise of a block vote , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ This obviously offers a great potential for sourcing products locally and for pursuing joint ventures either at home or abroad . ’ |
| 20 | Durrant , now looking forward on to the play rather than with his back to goal , used his vision to send Alexei Mikhailichenko down the left flank . |
| 21 | 193 , 208 should be construed as referring to the absence of specific Community legislation in that field rather than to the complete exclusion of E.E.C . |
| 22 | The UK national culture seems to be anti-systems and engineers often regard standards as restrictions on their creativity rather than as an efficient means of communication . |
| 23 | The direction in which the discussion of literature in the Introduction to the Man of Law 's Tale points , however , is towards a comparison of Chaucer 's writing with that of his contemporary John Gower rather than towards the survey of literary genres detached from the accidental circumstances of the identity of authors of specific examples of those genres that we find in fragment VII . |
| 24 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 25 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 26 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 27 | The mayors ' plan , targeting $35 billion in fiscal assistance , public works , community development black grants , job training , and low-interest small-business loans , has been taken up in Congress where it has met the famous legislated ‘ wall ’ , which prevents shift of military funds to social programmes rather than to deficit reduction . |
| 28 | The point of headroom is that those above should act as a support rather than as a control . |
| 29 | There are , however , no set rules for the composition of such staff groups within and across schools and school services , variations to the theme being as numerous as the institutions they are to serve . |
| 30 | Many of the Institute 's research programmes are pursued in close association with the Scottish Agricultural College and other groups within and outside the University . |