Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | he left it you see , but I mean she does n't know it 's ah she 's , she 's like Robert , Robert used to walk through things instead of round them . |
| 2 | So it 's going to take a very long time , because it has been male orientated , but until we get the attitude of the work place , which is encouraging their piers to apply for jobs instead of , oh , of course , I do n't think I will apply for that job . |
| 3 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 4 | ( On appeal to the Court of Appeal it was held that the imprisonment was not a repudiation but a ‘ self-induced frustration of the contract ’ Quaere , would an election to go to prison instead of paying a fine constitute a breach ( repudiation ) of contract no matter how long the prison sentence , or would the Court of Appeal put this conduct within the category of ‘ self-induced frustration ’ also ? ) |
| 5 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 6 | GOOD for Princess Anne , waiting for her children to arrive in Barcelona instead of going to the Opening Ceremony without them . |
| 7 | For example , the South West Africa Territory Force ( SWATF ) , numbering around 30,000 has been confined to base on full-pay instead of being disbanded . |
| 8 | Information can be automatically kept up to date , and will allow individuals to co-operate on projects instead of beavering away in isolation . |
| 9 | Why can not this Tory Government honour their pledge under the treaty to get rid of nuclear weapons , which will mean the withdrawal of Polaris — which is literally cracking up — and the saving of £10 billion on Trident , to be spent on the national health service to care for lives instead of threatening them with mass murder ? |
| 10 | If solider termites are killed in an attack , the decrease in the concentration of their scent causes the young females to develop into soldiers instead of workers . |
| 11 | As we saw with the Paddy Ashdown scandal raised during our last election , politicians everywhere seem to rely on mud-slinging instead of argument . |
| 12 | By cutting corners on the main line to enable trains to travel at 90mph instead of 75mph , a single-lead junction , similar to the one at Bellgrove , had been installed . |