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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such judgements , however , are best made as close to the action as possible rather than on a theoretical basis a long way away . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Emphasis was still largely placed upon Tertiary rather than upon the most recent stages of Quaternary time . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The same applies to a business executive needing a foreign language for specific rather than for holiday purposes . |
| 11 | It is true that 8 exemplifies a recurrent semantic contrast , but this is possible only because of the presence of m — in both sentences . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Regional Council believes this is possible only because of its role in planning strategic land use , economic development and transport . |
| 14 | The big surge in investment has been possible only because of the liberalisation policies pursued by the Government . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This behaviour is possible only because of the difference in diffusivities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Is the link between home and school strong enough and at what point do you intervene ? |
| 19 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 20 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 21 | When the issue is addressed it is skirted around , it seems to us , by the unwillingness of all three of the authors concerned — understandable perhaps because of their daily closeness to the victims of mental illness — to see beyond the pathology of the psychotic state itself ; their failure to appreciate our — or rather Sylvia Plath 's — point made earlier : that when insane the psychotic individual is too preoccupied struggling against overpersonalised or idiosyncratic thoughts to create effectively . |
| 22 | They include substantive conclusions about what would be different in philosophy if it were influenced by feminine rather than by masculine assumptions . |
| 23 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 24 | This Apparent discrepancy is to a certain extent explained by the relatively large sums in the Partnerships going to the voluntary sector , which is normally stronger in social rather than in environmental or economic areas . |
| 25 | suet in it I think it 'll end up runny rather than with nothing inside of it and if you 've got unless you want one as large as that I thought to myself . |
| 26 | These included , retreating through northern Yugoslavia , the remains of the German Army Group E , which had controlled south-eastern Europe under the command of Gen Alexander Loehr , and which , with its anti-Communist allies , were anxious to surrender to the British rather than to Communist forces . |
| 27 | If one 's priority is an account of fiction as a cultural rather than as a logical phenomenon , the problem of how readers deal with Babar 's behaviour is worth considering , whereas the problem of the library resources available to Red Riding Hood is not . |
| 28 | In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong . |
| 29 | Such differences ( and we have sketched them only very briefly here ) , are entirely right and proper within and between disciplines which are alive with debate and curiosity about the aspects of the world they have as this domain of inquiry . |
| 30 | The audit needs to be carried out on a periodic rather than on an ad hoc basis , and , like any other rational evaluation , needs to be conducted in a systematic way . |