Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi writes about constraints , compulsion , oppression , but as characteristics of states based on political rather than on social ( ‘ natural ’ ) bonds . |
| 2 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 3 | Bile for cytology was aspirated through a catheter within or above the endoprosthesis by the endoscopist and sent on the day of sampling to the Cytology Department . |
| 4 | Swindon now says it 's business as usual on and off the field ; building on the weekend 's success against Notts County ; aiming for Premier League football next year . |
| 5 | Such judgements , however , are best made as close to the action as possible rather than on a theoretical basis a long way away . |
| 6 | But it is normally an appeal to possible rather than to actual cases that is used to generate scepticism about the existence of minds other than our own . |
| 7 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | Emphasis was still largely placed upon Tertiary rather than upon the most recent stages of Quaternary time . |
| 10 | It 's a more importantly to make sure it 's normal rather than to look for a problem with it but Now you 're not trying to escape , are you Jade ? |
| 11 | In Kaszubia , Mazowia and Silesia the peasants referred to themselves as Kaszuby , Mazury and Slęzaki rather than as Poles : Polak was a term reserved for the Polish nobility . |
| 12 | Hopeless with that on because of course , he 's been wearing a pullover all the time and initially he had it clipped on the right hand side of his belts and of course , with that switch where is it ? |
| 13 | Whether this justifies the conclusion of Esther Moir that " The most that can be said is that on and off the bench , the Justices interposed between the parish overseer and his helpless victim " is uncertain . |
| 14 | And I rang that on and off right to ten to four and they were n't in . |
| 15 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 16 | The same applies to a business executive needing a foreign language for specific rather than for holiday purposes . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we can do something about that straightaway and at the same time keep you under observation . |
| 18 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 19 | That in and under the bread and wine , as Calvin put it , set apart from common use to this holy use to represent his body and blood , he feeds us with his very life I in you and you in me , I the vine and you the branches . |
| 20 | Thirdly , the object is that in or through which an instinct can achieve its aim . |
| 21 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 22 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 23 | It is true that 8 exemplifies a recurrent semantic contrast , but this is possible only because of the presence of m — in both sentences . |
| 24 | But it was equally clear that the share-pushing operations were often made possible only because of the assistance of third parties such as bankers , accountants and solicitors . |
| 25 | The Regional Council believes this is possible only because of its role in planning strategic land use , economic development and transport . |
| 26 | The big surge in investment has been possible only because of the liberalisation policies pursued by the Government . |
| 27 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 28 | This behaviour is possible only because of the difference in diffusivities . |
| 29 | That temporary phenomenon was possible only because of an EC support control mechanism which passed away last January and brought smiles to thousands of faces . |
| 30 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them . |