Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Similarly , Plowden ( 1985 , p. 407 ) complains that the focus is ‘ almost entirely on the costs of governmental activities rather than on their quality ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ This obviously offers a great potential for sourcing products locally and for pursuing joint ventures either at home or abroad . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the former regimes of ‘ real socialism ’ in Eastern Europe the right to vote was largely denuded of its meaning by the proscription of any opposition parties , and even of dissenting groups within or outside the single ruling party , while the movements for democratic reform which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s were regularly suppressed by force or intimidation until they were finally successful at the end of the 1980s . |
| 16 | Beyond the taught courses there are lively seminar programmes within and between departments , where students gain experience in the presentation of research papers , and regular conferences . |
| 17 | Patients need to return to a normal weight , and that is determined by reference to scientific norms rather than by special pleading and personal opinion . |
| 18 | Of course , any classification of drug users will be somewhat arbitrary and open to debate , and the present scheme was devised for practical reasons rather than as a conceptual model . |
| 19 | The sea , too , was considered good for health and the fashion for sea bathing was originally for health reasons rather than for a jolly seaside holiday . |
| 20 | Under certain conditions the balance of class forces , plus the conflicts within and between different elites in the state system over state power might result in opportunities for interests opposed to monopoly capital to seize the state and pursue policies antithetical to its interest . |
| 21 | Second , this account rarely encompasses the conflicts within and between different sectors of capital , whether they be monopoly/non-monopoly or commercial , productive , financial or merchant divisions . |
| 22 | These ranged from an economic blockade of Lithuania in April 1990 [ see pp. 37360-62 ] , and violent military intervention in the Baltics in January 1991 [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , through a continuing " battle of the laws " with the RFSFR , to efforts to mediate over or exploit inter-ethnic conflicts within and between seceding republics ( such as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the South Ossetia dispute in Georgia — see p. 37971 ) . |
| 23 | Examples are fewer , it seems , than for matrilines but include spider monkeys , the red colobus , chimpanzees , and also the hamadryas baboon when movements between clans rather than in and out of harems is considered . |
| 24 | I think that many of us would prefer to see falling rolls as a chance to reduce class size , thus giving pupils a better chance of carrying out practical work in pairs rather than in groups of three or even four . |
| 25 | A further complication in the case of a crystalline solid is the possible appearance of lattice modes , which involve motions of whole molecules rather than of their constituent atoms . |
| 26 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 27 | These are particularly useful to describe situations where events occur in parallel or in patterns rather than in a single series . |
| 28 | In addition much of her extra-European influence was based upon the confidence and expertise of local British personnel rather than on physical power . |
| 29 | Analysis of birth weight in kilograms rather than by centiles did not affect these correlations , the absolute value for the whole cohort correlating with the standardised β cell function ( r s =0.28 ( p=0.007 ) . |
| 30 | In other words , we should examine in detail the career mobility patterns within and between corporations , for those who succeed are more likely to have just those qualities which corporate crime requires . |