Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has chosen to steer a middle course between them rather than undertake a strategic review . |
| 2 | Roosevelt objected to these rules , which limited his powers in foreign policy , but he accepted them rather than have a battle with Congress . |
| 3 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 4 | In addition , a study of the feasibility of devising criterion-referenced tests rather than norm-referenced ones was to be undertaken : that is , tests which give a description of the achievement of pupils who take them rather than placing the pupils in a relative order of achievement . |
| 5 | Bruce , therefore , became a kind of guerilla leader whose main means of harming the English was to harass them rather than seek a formal confrontation with them . |
| 6 | Certainly Disraeli and Gladstone thrived on the electoral reform of the 1860s and quickly learned how to discipline their followers and manage them so as to translate the wishes of the executive into votes in the House . |
| 7 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |
| 8 | MITI 's approach was to favour several large producers in the manner of an elite squad , and then to encourage rivalry between them so as to avoid the dangers of complacency in single firm monopolies . |
| 9 | There were moments when I all but spoke the truth . |
| 10 | But he said : ‘ What has upset me more than missing the Olympics is that people I like and respect are going to think I 'm a cheat . ’ |
| 11 | She all but yelled the words at him , incensed beyond reason that he could even consider such a thing . |
| 12 | ‘ Aspirin — the bottle held aspirin ! ’ she all but yelled the words back at him . |
| 13 | Goaded beyond reason , she all but spat the words at him . |
| 14 | She all but screamed the denial , horribly aware that it was n't true . |
| 15 | She all but shrieked the word . |
| 16 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 17 | She enjoyed living in London , she more than enjoyed the work she did , and she wanted to stay . |
| 18 | , for the benefit of future performance , we more than replaced the year 's production , adding more than 600 million barrels of oil equivalent to our reserves . |
| 19 | But what have we here as plays the ball across , it comes back off and out to the left hand side where the urgency from the crowd is for to get rid of it . |
| 20 | In his review for Vanity Fair Pare Lorentz argued that all the minor characters in I am a Fugitive were caricatures and that the film had been spoilt by the director 's decision to make the fugitive a hero and to tell the story through him rather than making the actual prison system the central focus of the film . |
| 21 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 22 | They all but destroyed the crucial long-term relationship between writer and editor . |
| 23 | However much she might have wanted to remain aloof from publicity the female press corps had already identified her as the ‘ Woman Head ’ of a multi-million dollar international corporation and , through the same lens , saw her therefore as challenging a man 's world . |
| 24 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 25 | It all but invited every cop-hating drug freak , every aggrieved drugs trafficker from the Bekaa Valley to Los Angeles , every ultra-right , gun-running , Contra-supporting machismo addict , and every thwarted narco-terrorist or Muslim extremist looking for a safe or cheap revenge to ‘ terminate ’ him also . |
| 26 | Iran also used the HY-2 Silkworm missile , supplied by China , reportedly positioning it so as to overlook the Strait . |
| 27 | Paragraph ( a ) is by way of restatement of the common law ; paragraph ( b ) extends it so as to make the disposition conversion even if it does not confer a good title on the disponee . |
| 28 | If the WGMS were to be adopted in Britain , could no way be found of modifying it so as to afford the same opportunity ? |
| 29 | The complexity of pre-trial procedure , particularly in the High Court , has been said to act not only as a deterrent to all but the most determined litigant , but also as a weapon for the recalcitrant defendant who may manipulate it so as to place the pressure of delay upon the plaintiff . |
| 30 | So much so that , when the various category prizes were announced , he all but swept the board . |