Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her mother came and sat beside her , twisting her fingers nervously and pulling on and off her gloves , lifting and laying down her basket in agitation , Lily rallied a little . |
| 2 | Thus subject departments and individual teachers are to be involved in forming curriculum policies rather than having rights over such policies . |
| 3 | As a committed Labour Party member I can not condone nor understand why , with the country suffering from Tory fatigue , the Labour Party does not thrust home its policies rather than become embroiled in this negative smear and counter-smear campaign . |
| 4 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 5 | Instruction would be given by the librarian and the class teacher and it would deal mainly in concrete activities rather than abstract theory and should be tied to specific project work . |
| 6 | Geologists had chiefly looked horizontally where fossils were concerned , using them to date strata rather than following resemblances vertically through time . |
| 7 | ‘ It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest . |
| 8 | Which particular words and phrases show that the writer is stating opinions rather than making judgements ? |
| 9 | Throughout their secondary school careers , pupils are often persuaded to repeat their teachers ' opinions rather than to develop their own points of view . |
| 10 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 11 | Even the economic stimulus package that Congress defeated last week , which contained nearly half a billion dollars for the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and other federal research agencies ( see right ) , would at best have strengthened existing programmes rather than charting new directions . |
| 12 | Table 16–5 also suggests that the UK relies quite heavily on indirect taxes rather than direct taxes . |
| 13 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 14 | Corral generally prefers buying from commercial galleries rather than auction houses and she often consults the artists about the works the Museum intends to buy . |
| 15 | Although organisations recognise that employees may not always be able to refit old carpets or curtains in the new property , policies do often include a statement to the effect that staff should make every effort to adapt their existing possessions rather than buy afresh . |
| 16 | He left the mines eventually and got a job with a builder — he could turn his hand to anything — one of those men , you know , plumbing , anything . |
| 17 | Why do animals perform their restrained ritual contests rather than fighting all out straight away ? |
| 18 | To some extent , this must be a reflection on the methodology which we adopted , concentrating as we did on interviewing key actors and observing the development , processing , and implementation of proposals rather than focusing on , for example , the teaching methods of individual teachers or the reading habits of individual pupils . |
| 19 | 2 Exploring proposals rather than counter proposing |
| 20 | Pairing Breaking into sub-groups rather than solving the conflict as a group coalition . |
| 21 | Since it was possible to examine only a sample of such studies , what follows is aimed to reflect the fact of risk related fertility patterns rather than to give an accounting of the extent and paths of influence . |
| 22 | These are only stereotypes and each child in a family may have some characteristics of several of these behavioural patterns rather than fit one particular stereotype . |
| 23 | Prudent homeowners build their houses on continuous foundations rather than rest them on pier blocks from which they can be bucked when the big shake comes . |
| 24 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 25 | Their contribution so far has emphasized reviews of human impacts often reflecting research in other disciplines rather than appropriate fundamental impact studies by physical geographers . |
| 26 | Bachelard himself preferred to give examples of such ruptures rather than theorize how they took place . |
| 27 | to develop opportunities , relationships and patterns of living , in line with their individual wishes rather than rule of thumb normality ; |
| 28 | A gifted decorating triumvirate with an outstanding range of experience and the capacity to interpret clients ' own wishes rather than to impose a ‘ house style ’ . |
| 29 | It is worth noting that Sir John Reresby appeared twice after his first entry , presumably as the owner of empty houses , and that women who were heads of households were often described as widows rather than given their Christian names . |
| 30 | In particular it has attempted to take on board community aspirations and local authority plans rather than ride roughshod over local wishes . |