Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Ellis papers in National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth , along with papers there of D. Lloyd George , D. R. Daniel , J. Herbert Lewis , Stuart Rendel , and Ellis Griffith ; A. J. Ellis ( ed . ) , |
| 2 | The system acts as a discipline to ensure that you concentrate sufficiently on observation instead of being tempted to jump to conclusions . |
| 3 | But the largest and most common seizures were normally of cannabis either of the herbal type or the more concentrated cannabis resin . |
| 4 | O'Hagan suggested it was important to try to prevent the client seeing the social worker as just one more person determined to take him/her away from home regardless of the feelings . |
| 5 | She was aware that this process exposed first her buttocks and then her breasts , fleetingly , to Crowe , who had seen them and more than seen them , already , but not in circumstances either of them , she took it , cared to remember . |
| 6 | Rationality can very properly be specified not in terms exclusively of methods supposed to lead to truth but more generally in terms of methods for reaching a consistent and comprehensive stance towards the world as it really is , something perfectly possible in ethical thought as the attitudinist describes it . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope he and I have years more of life ahead of us . |
| 8 | Er yesterday on non-conformances most of my non-conformances I think there are about five outstanding . |
| 9 | National Power was 5p off at 330p ahead of its final figures on Thursday . |
| 10 | The current legislation allows benefit to be backdated indefinitely by reason only of a mistake made or something done or omitted to be done by an officer of the DHSS . |
| 11 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 12 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 13 | Mr Howard dismissed the French and German threat to press on with unity ahead of the rest of Europe . |
| 14 | Secker & Warburg , Chatto & Windus and Hamish Hamilton started to publish books straight into paperback instead of producing first editions in hardback . |
| 15 | That is a child who has grown up with books instead of wallpaper . |
| 16 | He said to one of his chaplains that Ramsey spent too much time theologizing up in York instead of tackling problems practically . |
| 17 | I wish we could go straight to bed instead of this bloody reception ! ’ |
| 18 | These stresses and strains emerge just as forcibly in studies specifically of the supporters of the elderly mentally infirm . |
| 19 | I was really glad to be going out with Mary instead of Mum ; I do n't think Mary had ever asked if she could take me with her before . |
| 20 | The main change is that the periods laid down for these notices are now in days instead of hours : two days notice is required for the commencement of building works . |
| 21 | My modest er surprise at the beginning Mr Mayor was purely in recognition actually of my er colleagues presentation , bearing in mind all the previous criticism about being specific . |
| 22 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 23 | ‘ He should be allowed back to Ireland instead of having to hide . |
| 24 | ‘ Take a good rest ’ — well the heart was back to pounding instead of its previous maniacal thump , so time to press on . |
| 25 | A recent study carried out by Management Today of the top 250 performing companies , highlights Rentokil at No. 46 . |
| 26 | That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it . |
| 27 | 1993 has started well with deliveries ahead of the same period last year and ahead of budget . |
| 28 | ‘ Philip , ’ said his Mum , turning round in the car so she could see him , ‘ Joyce is asking if you 'd like to stop here with Barry instead of coming back to work with me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ How about chocolate instead of dandelion leaves ? ’ |
| 30 | The former will cling rigidly to formulae regardless of the situation , nit-picking over tiny detail but sometimes unwittingly missing the larger issues . |