Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one issue which centrally concerned the Consultative Councils — electricity prices — their attitudes were predictable and damaging : the Councils generally added to the pressure for uneconomically low prices , though members who adopted an aggressively consumerist line were unlikely to find themselves reappointed by the Minister . |
| 2 | These schools come under the control of the Department of Education , through locally appointed committees . |
| 3 | This leaves a balance which then has to be financed through locally levied rates . |
| 4 | This objective could be reached through blatantly coercive methods or by those less obviously repressive . |
| 5 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 6 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |
| 7 | Come in , Sergeant Joe , do n't stand out there in the cold , I 'll get Archie for yer-'ere , no yer do n't , yer crafty fly-be-night . ’ |
| 8 | Order large glass of dry sherry and feel its warmth penetrate toes , making up for rather painful new shoes . |
| 9 | We appreciate your concern in allowing ‘ strangers ’ to live in your home but it is better to have your home cared for rather than leaving it empty . |
| 10 | For rather similar reasons , Darwin reacted against Lamarck 's idea that organisms have an inner drive to evolve greater complexity . |
| 11 | While Harrison prepared yesterday to play a benefit concert at the Royal Albert Hall for the Natural Law Party , 51-year-old Starr said he was playing a series of dates in Europe in July for rather different reasons . |
| 12 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 13 | But it is also used in some cases for rather trivial offences . |
| 14 | It has since been cared for rather better and now appears much improved . |
| 15 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 16 | For rather larger projects , the JCT in 1984 produced their Intermediate Form of Building Contract . |
| 17 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 18 | ‘ For rather a lot of money . |
| 19 | They really should have outpointed the New Zealand XV in the first match at Hamilton for they outplayed the New Zealanders for rather more than half the game . |
| 20 | Recent vacancies have also tended to be for rather more senior personnel , quite often specifically seeking out prospective partners , and some have offered salaries of over £70,000 for the right person . |
| 21 | William Seward , President Lincoln 's Secretary of State , the man who had committed the legendary ‘ folly ’ of buying Alaska for rather more than $7 million , made an even more provocative forecast in the mid-nineteenth century : . |
| 22 | He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all . |
| 23 | Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it . |
| 24 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 25 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 26 | For rather do anarchy and civil war result from the alternative , a polyarchy based on equality . |
| 27 | It is true that some journalists are greedy and ask for rather more samples than they require , but this is not the norm and these people are soon sniffed out . |
| 28 | The so-to-speak general reviewers were not impressed much either , but for rather different reasons . |
| 29 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 30 | These two broad industrial groups account for rather less than half the total labour force but nearly two-thirds of the temporary labour force [ see Table 2.1 ] . |