Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prefers to borrow rather than raise outside equity capital and thus dilute control . |
| 2 | It was designed to uphold rather than undermine older aspects of Japanese society . |
| 3 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 4 | If we try to put that description more concretely , we might describe essay- writing as involving a standardised , written variety of language which seeks to communicate clearly while following academic conventions . |
| 5 | Philips — like Siemens and GEC — attempted to evolve rather than to make radical changes of direction . |
| 6 | In works such as ‘ Scylla ’ Colquhoun 's use of the female body as a means to escape rather than emphasise sexual distinctions foreshadows the work of artists such as Helen Chadwick and Cindy Sherman who emphasise the multiple , uncategorisable self . |
| 7 | The Act aimed to reinforce rather than to diminish parental responsibility by requiring the presence of parents in court and by increasing the courts ' powers to require parents to pay fines for their children 's offences . |
| 8 | This is because some disinfectants serve to reinforce rather than overcome such scents which are not discernible by our noses . |
| 9 | There 's nothing else to do anyway except spend all day watching the telly . ’ |
| 10 | Landplane engines always seem to run badly when crossing large stretches of water , but flying across the middle of the island we disproved the theory that a floatplane 's motor might go into auto-rough over hard terrain . |
| 11 | The tenor of the above letter seems to endorse rather than diminish that inference — Ed . |
| 12 | ‘ God grant that some editor somewhere is thinking about educating his staff in the need to check stories before rushing into print — an ethic of journalism which seems to have all but disappeared these days , ’ said Bob . |
| 13 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 14 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 15 | An important stated purpose of the Act was to give a legal framework for credit which was compatible with present-day commercial realities , and flexible enough to suit rather than restrict future developments in the credit industry — instead of the old framework , inflexibly moulded to outdated patterns of credit use . |