Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The latter question is concerned with a judgement of the aims of the course rather than with the functioning of the course . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 12 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 13 | The point of headroom is that those above should act as a support rather than as a control . |
| 14 | But second , enough of an overwhelming victory for the incumbent leader to rule out what has always been the more credible avenue through which change might occur : her own apprehension , reaching her by whatever means , that perhaps the time has come to quit — before the election rather than after it . |
| 15 | It is a fully computerised exchange which enables dealers to conduct their business via display screens linked to a central computer rather than by open outcry on a trading floor . |
| 16 | I recently asked Dr Jim Hunter whether in the future diagnosis would be by computer rather than by doctor . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he suggests that a kind of valid knowledge can be developed here , based on careful and consistent description rather than on explanation . |
| 18 | On one occasion he went to Dundee where the promoter knocked down his purse from £4 to £2. 10s. because he had come on his motor bike rather than on the train . |
| 19 | Support mechanisms should be based on environmental protection rather than on production . |
| 20 | Judge Mark Dyer told Bailey there was no comparable case law to base a sentence on because of the immense damage he had caused . |
| 21 | If hysterectomy does change bowel function it seems likely from our data that the primary problem is in the act of defecation rather than in colonic function , as there was little or no change in stool form yet half the subjects felt they were prone to constipation and a quarter strained with every recorded defecation . |
| 22 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 23 | Yet the invisible balance may well be a measure of weakness rather than of strength , particularly since financial services have not shown outstanding growth in productivity : as has been noted it was below that of domestic manufacturing and far below that for manufacturing among Britain 's major competitors . |
| 24 | And yet the stance of Quebec nationalism is that of a people in headlong retreat before historical forces which threaten to overwhelm it ; a movement whose very advances are viewed in terms of potential weakness rather than as success . |
| 25 | There is much evidence to suggest that the American transformation was in many cases too sudden , too linked with immediately available federal grants , too concerned in fact with the importance of material provision rather than with steady and persistent thought and experimentation . |
| 26 | Co-operation with the LEAs was equally important and was to be sought on a basis of complementary provision rather than through competitive relationships . |
| 27 | Ivy Compton-Burnett , whose elegantly minimal and stylized dialogue has similarities with the narrative technique of Nathalie Sarraute , was appreciated in the 1950s primarily for her wit in portraying the viciousness of social interaction rather than for the techniques she employed . |
| 28 | Questions of fairness of the procedure will be decided by interpreting the contract rather than by reference to an external standard . |
| 29 | But it also appears to depend upon the extent to which employer control over the workplace is enhanced by multi-employer bargaining rather than by independent , single-firm action . |
| 30 | Far from extending Darwinian gradualism , the scientists who tried to reconstruct the past had returned to a theory of history that assumed that progress took place through a series of distinct episodes , representing the rise and fall of groups that evolved in parallel rather than in sequence . |