Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man buys a razor and shaving cream and later returns saying you have only given him change for £5 instead of £10 . |
| 2 | Consider the validity of the agreement between A and B. Would your answer be different if A asked for £3,000 instead of £1,000 ? |
| 3 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 4 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 5 | Campaigners , backed by Ms Eagle , say the landing stage could be repaired for £1.5m instead of the £10m quoted by Merseytravel . |
| 6 | Recoveries should be pursued against Airlines regardless of the amount . |
| 7 | If they had all spent a little of their energy cooperating with staff instead of moaning , they would have got out a lot quicker . |
| 8 | In contrast CBP100 interacts with CREB independently of the leucine zipper . |
| 9 | In Britain the populist , anti-intellectual pressure has come from government instead of from the people . |
| 10 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 11 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 12 | They are depicted on coins particularly of the period of the Roman empire , and especially for the two hundred years between AD 50 and 250 . |
| 13 | The collections are dominated by seeds probably of the mustard and caper families , Zizyphus stones , grass grains , and seeds of leguminous plants ; the unidentified material consists of many examples of a few types . |
| 14 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 15 | Stok tied his tie , using all the muscles of his fingers as though it was made of metal instead of cloth . |
| 16 | Elasmobranchs , such as sharks and rays , are a very ancient group of fish that have a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone . |
| 17 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 18 | If a decision can be made about a partial solution after every three words , say , then a search space with two words at every choice point could be searched with paths instead of paths , an exponential saving . |
| 19 | Overweight is caused by eating more energy-giving foods than are needed , so that the excess is turned into fat instead of being burned up . |
| 20 | And he hopes to retain his place in tomorrow 's Premier League meeting with Middlesbrough ahead of Bruce Grobbelaar and David James . |
| 21 | These experiences do not , of course , wholly explain modern union behaviour or remove from unions much of the responsibility for changing matters . |
| 22 | Floppy discs from the design computer can be inserted directly into the machine enabling a sample to be made within hours instead of days . |
| 23 | SPEAKER of the House of Commons , Betty Boothroyd , has yet again made a change in the running of Westminster , by ensuring that menus for her official dinners are written in English instead of French , the traditional language of banquets . |
| 24 | Another problem is how to modify the levels of nutrients which are often included in hydroponic systems where plants are grown in water instead of soil . |
| 25 | These facts will be irrelevant if no unit larger than the grapheme is used to read aloud , because a standard rule ea — ‘ ee ’ will be applied to ea regardless of what other graphemes exist in the non-word . |
| 26 | He expected to demonstrate that social support was related to depression independently of stress ( Figure 4.3A ) . |
| 27 | And company cars are to be taxed according to price instead of engine size . |
| 28 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 29 | ‘ Why are you writing to Richard instead of telephoning him ? ’ |
| 30 | I hue written at length elsewhere of the peculiarity and wastefulness of the Western habit of argument and clash . |