Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) Control is primarily exercised on the budget inputs rather than its outputs . |
| 2 | Full mobility would return to the foot eventually and I 'd be climbing again . |
| 3 | Does n't it give you two policies rather than one to batter Mr Earle with , or his colleague ? |
| 4 | Organisations tend to emphasise the benefits of policies rather than their costs , looking at the objectives to be achieved rather than the resources available . |
| 5 | His theory connects with Mannheim 's ‘ particular ’ conception of ideology rather than his ‘ total ’ conception in that it is concerned with psychological processes . |
| 6 | In conclusion , budgetary accounting is primarily concerned with the form of the financial accounts rather than their content . |
| 7 | The main publication is the 1985 Standard Classification ( revised in 1988 ) , which is concerned primarily with the form of accounts rather than their content . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I began playing guitar professionally when I was about 15 or 16 years old , and was recording albums by the time I was 17 . |
| 9 | To extend a statute to a regrettably omitted case looks like legislation , whereas refusing to extend it to a casus male inclusus is more like imposing a provisional fetter on legislation ( provisional , because Parliament can always come back and include the case expressly if it wants to ) . |
| 10 | Next issue ; Problem will be colds coughs etc. if you had a problem and solved it , let us know and pass on your solution to other mums . |
| 11 | So , sa her comment probably is erm on the upbringing rather than anything else . |
| 12 | Those who travelled went further still and discovered Greece , but it too is ‘ classical ’ and altered the decoration of Palladian houses rather than their design . |
| 13 | Public debate about rural housing policy has , however , preferred not to acknowledge such social control implications and preferred instead to deal in terms of houses rather than their inhabitants . |
| 14 | Their rows centred on his failure to be available when she needed his support rather than her ability to be physically present but absent in every other way . |
| 15 | In agreeing to obey his decision they agreed to follow his judgment of the balance of reasons rather than their own . |
| 16 | In the third explanatory framework , teachers ' attitudes rather than their knowledge are described as crucial . |
| 17 | Like similar assumptions about fresh air and freedom it needs further investigation , otherwise we shall measure its extent rather than its quality , its coverage rather than its benefits . |
| 18 | These often involve vowel sounds having their Creole rather than their expected London pronunciations . |
| 19 | Guitars themselves have become revered icons rather than something to play music with . |
| 20 | This has led to waste and inefficiency since the definition of a good hour of work is one that can be charged to the contract rather than one in which some progress has been made . |
| 21 | Now we 've just said there needs to be some level somewhere if you 're right down this end of the curve here you 're either asleep or dead so there 's some peak performance at some level of anxiety or arousal and as the anxiety increases the performance drops off . |
| 22 | So we respond to what we perceive to be the case rather than what is the case . |
| 23 | This is a cost , but as Eisenberg has pointed out , it is a cost that is borne by the company 's shareholders rather than its managers . |
| 24 | With the provoking incident of the previous week still fresh in his mind , Lefevre had taken the precaution of hiring a cab in advance of any possible need , telling the driver half-truthfully that he was waiting for someone . |
| 25 | That makes ten p altogether and you have to tick off the ten pence by doing a five and a five . |
| 26 | Why is it , I wonder , that when books have things spilt on them it is always bottled sauce or gravy of the thickest and most repellent kind rather than something utterly exquisite and delicious ? ’ |
| 27 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 28 | Please check opening times locally as they are subject to variance . |
| 29 | So the government have n't got to find that bit rather than them being |
| 30 | Like this they bound slowly down the boulevard , with him laughing and kicking people 's hats awry as they come arcing back on to the pavement at the end of each step . |