Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] oppose [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sense can be made of divine as opposed to human ‘ personality ’ ? |
| 2 | Whereas the Natural History Museum ( the V&A 's neighbour on the other side of Exhibition Road ) attempts to justify admissions charges through an energetic advertising and marketing campaign promoting the idea of the museum visit as an entertaining-cum-educational day out for the whole family , the ‘ national Museum of Art and Design ’ must work to counteract the potential elitism implicit in its status as an institution of cultural as opposed to ‘ natural ’ history . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the process of ‘ de-industrialization ’ , typified by the shift of employment from manufacturing to service industries and the related growth of female participation in the labour force , and of white-collar as opposed to manual occupations , has been accompanied by fundamental changes in the location of economic activity , both locally and regionally . |
| 4 | The first , rich country protectionism , comes from within global capitalism , but in the form of national as opposed to systemic interests . |
| 5 | There appears to be a much higher concentration of virus particles in the lesions of genital as opposed to skin warts . |
| 6 | Thickening of all layers of the bowel wall is a feature of Crohn 's disease , a factor perhaps further weighting the recordings towards mucosal as opposed to submucosal and muscularis blood flow . |
| 7 | Indeed , this is one of their demarcators of disorganized as opposed to organized capitalism . |
| 8 | Martin ( 1984 ) and Meager ( 1984 ) both pointed out that , when considered as a proportion of gross as opposed to net job loss , redundancy was not the dominant process . |
| 9 | The most interesting development pointing in this general direction is to be found in the field of statutory as opposed to common law review . |
| 10 | The greater degree of substantive as opposed to formal rationality evidenced in Japanese organization , in particular , seems to be an important consideration . |
| 11 | Sir Philip Sidney 's argument in The Defence of Poetry that poetry 's didactic superiority rested in its ability to both teach and delight is an example of a belief in the superiority of eloquent as opposed to plain language as the vehicle for communicating serious issues . |
| 12 | It was held that there had been a breach of the implied condition as to fitness for purpose , the court refusing to read the word " particular " in s14(3) in the sense of special as opposed to general purpose . |
| 13 | Conversely , nominal identity matches such as A-a were performed more slowly than physical identity matches ( A-A ) suggesting a separate representation for nominal as opposed to physical matches . |
| 14 | The only possible wholesale/retail distinction relating to the type of goods that might have some application would seem to be in the area of packaging for retail as opposed to wholesale sale . |
| 15 | The argument runs on to suggest that movements within distributions are significant ( e.g. Gallaway 1966 ) and that any mechanism , like progressive as opposed to proportional taxation , that impedes the process needs to be considered in this light . |
| 16 | To bring this picture into line with the earlier part of this chapter , a vertical has been added labelled ( c for current as opposed to e for the early version ) . |
| 17 | Shortly before Russian President Yeltsin 's visit to Germany in November [ see p. 38590 ] , the Russian Justice Minister Nikolay Feodorov had announced that Honecker 's case was now under Russian as opposed to Soviet jurisdiction . |
| 18 | Thus , when drawing on evidence from Wales and Yorkshire which dealt with local as opposed to national forms ( i.e. communal traditions of language and dialect , pride in place , manners and customs , speech , song and dance , acting , and craftsmanship ) , the Committee is able to find a place for them within their overall vision of Englishness , by saying : " We believe it to be in the highest interests of English culture that local patriotism , with all that this entails , should be encouraged " . |
| 19 | Veblen 's central thesis was that emulation took the form of engaging in a conspicuous way in honorific as opposed to merely useful pursuits . |
| 20 | Even this attritional logic left one ‘ gap ’ in the law ; where the affray took place in private as opposed to public , it could be argued that there was the need for the presence of an actual ( as opposed to a hypothetical ) bystander . |
| 21 | Burgess and Pratt attribute this development , like that of the growth in full-time as opposed to part-time students , to what they apostrophize as ‘ academic drift ’ . |
| 22 | There is an even greater need for good advice , particularly away from the headlines , in agreed as opposed to hostile transactions . |
| 23 | Theoretically , the IgG subclass distribution could be different in superficial as opposed to basal lamina propria . |
| 24 | However , because sulphur compounds are responsible for most of these effects it is very difficult to distinguish between the effects of pollution originating from local as opposed to distant sources ( refer to section 2.1 ) . |
| 25 | Partly as a result of the methodology chosen , a subsidiary aim was to examine the links between expenditure on durable as opposed to non-durable goods . |
| 26 | The second question concerns the value placed on feminine as opposed to masculine terms in an opposition . |
| 27 | Side by side with the increasing popularity of monetary theories of the cycle , the late 1970s witnessed the emergence of alternative theories of the business cycle which , though firmly rooted in new classical macroeconomics , attributed the causes of the business cycle to real as opposed to monetary phenomena . |
| 28 | In summary , the service and intermediate classes will be compared with the working class in their attendance at selective as opposed to non-selective schools . |