Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quakers , for example , dispensed with a professional ministry altogether and held completely unstructured meetings , at which both male and female members of the congregation could testify as and when the spirit moved them ; they also developed their own simple marriage and burial services . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In reality heavy drinking is far more pervasive than is commonly realized and most drugs which are consumed to excess are prescribed by a GP rather than bought illegally . |
| 7 | Bachelard himself preferred to give examples of such ruptures rather than theorize how they took place . |
| 8 | The quality of the build shows that some care has been taken in its assembly — for instance , where at all possible , input and output ports have been mounted on the case rather than taking up usable expansion slot space . |
| 9 | In particular it has attempted to take on board community aspirations and local authority plans rather than ride roughshod over local wishes . |
| 10 | In the long run , it might even be decided to dispense with paper operations altogether and work entirely electronically from the collection stage ( see 2.5 above ) onwards . |
| 11 | American Can chose to move into an existing modern building rather than build afresh . |
| 12 | Arriving at Treib those who wish to reach Seelisberg on foot rather than travel up by funicular will find the footpath to the village clearly marked and well maintained . |
| 13 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 14 | If the right hon. Member has the evidence , he should place it before the Home Secretary , the police and other appropriate authorities rather than come here , in the time off that he has from his interviews on Sky , to make wild accusations about everyone involved in immigration matters . |
| 15 | tends toward resignation rather than protest especially in |
| 16 | Yeah erm , the reason I want to follow it up is because would you not agree er with a number of major companies in this country and in a time of recession rather than cutting back on your marketing and advertising you should in fact be increasing it in fact when the marketing |
| 17 | Do you twos do the cooking rather than go out . |
| 18 | Likewise , we may not wish a budget-holder to take risks with taxpayer 's money and to ensure equity the official may need to follow formal rules rather than respond flexibly to each new case . |
| 19 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 20 | You need to send your teacher to the top of the building so as to speed up his watch . |
| 21 | We shall elaborate on this simple division below but suggest here that the wealth of literature on the former ( see , for instance , Burton et al. 1978 and Perry 1981 ) has yet to be matched by a similar volume of work on the latter . |
| 22 | They were up and ready for inspection , with the tent down and folded back into a small square by six thirty . |
| 23 | Signe took the money gleefully and ran out of the room shouting , ‘ I can take a hint . |
| 24 | The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds . |
| 25 | She only mentioned Margaret twice — once tenderly : ‘ the beautiful curtains Margaret and I chose together ’ — once tartly : ‘ Margaret would never prepare her lectures … just gather a few notes together and wonder why she was nervous at the last moment . |
| 26 | True , I take your point , I mean I , perhaps I could dig a little bit deeper and find out what the Dickens is going on , you know ! |
| 27 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 28 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 29 | Each had their separate sources of funding and , as a result , would not necessarily have to chase the largest audience nor produce lowest common denominator programmes so as to please as many as possible . |
| 30 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |