Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 2 | In the General Staff 's view , instabilities in Britain 's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped . |
| 3 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 4 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 5 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 6 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |