Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 3 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |
| 4 | Throughout their secondary school careers , pupils are often persuaded to repeat their teachers ' opinions rather than to develop their own points of view . |
| 5 | A major difficulty is likely to be that doctors are usually on the side of giving support rather than receiving it and will probably find it difficult to recognise their own needs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 8 | We adopted the position and as soon as the issue 's resolved the better so I 'm somewhat reluctant in saying that Jack Straw could be less equivocal about C C T rather than concerning himself with what is written on the back of his party card . |
| 9 | Were such a proof to be successfully produced , moreover — in other words if Anselm were shown to be right — then from our point of view such a success would undermine faith rather than establish it . |
| 10 | so I had to go and put a thread on and put it in , it in another place |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 14 | Better to have your own people committed to a contract rather than sacrifice their jobs arid an element of profit to an outside sub-contractor . |
| 15 | Thus , in the United States unionisation must precede collective bargaining rather than following it since extensions of negotiating rights take place at plant or company level , on an individual and piecemeal basis , and often have to be secured against adamant employer resistance . |
| 16 | While the politicians see PEBs as a device for party propaganda , the broadcasters see PEBs as a platform for parties to inform the electorate by stating their case rather than chanting their slogans . |
| 17 | She should be blessing her young sister rather than cursing her , she thought wryly . |
| 18 | It may be possible to boost your income rather than diminish your expenditure . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She surrendered Victoria gladly and flexed her strained arms . |
| 21 | Above all , he insisted on reducing the revenue support grant rather than increasing it , which is what all of us said was necessary to soften the blow . |
| 22 | Adorno 's preference for ‘ immanent method ’ — analysing and evaluating works in terms of the implications , the immanent tendencies , of their own mode of existence rather than approaching them comparatively — means that , having set his criteria for ‘ autonomous bourgeois music ’ from his interpretation of Beethoven , he exports those criteria to all music of the period and finds the rest of it wanting . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's the highest form of devotion , you know , to want to end somebody 's existence rather than let them live on without you . |
| 24 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 25 | Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists . |
| 26 | The school has to pay for maintenance of the buildings , rent , rates , heating , lighting , cleaning , caretaking etc. and gets its income from PTA , Lettings , Adult Education . |
| 27 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 28 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 29 | Mentally handicapped people were first admitted to mental hospitals as a policy of segregation at a time when it was thought most prudent to contain such people in institutions rather than permit them to roam freely in society . |
| 30 | The touchline was the launchpad — more so against Ireland than France — of some of Scotland 's best driving mauls and highlighted the danger of players swelling defensive ranks rather than committing themselves to the maul . |