Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment . |
| 2 | But as far as their ideas of women in society goes it has n't changed — that women should stay home and do the cooking . ’ |
| 3 | Currently much effort is being directed at understanding the organizational processes of questioning and debate which such audits should stimulate rather than seeing the problem in terms of administrative techniques alone . |
| 4 | She paid up , thinking of the Pascoes praying visitors should do so and save the precious fabric . |
| 5 | It is seen as crucial that all parties interested in broadcasting on the public channel should work together and seize the opportunity to make public television in Australia a reality . |
| 6 | The EEC should decide soon whether to raise the prices , and help Philips sell more European players . |
| 7 | He says as a champion I must perform well and give the public value for money . |
| 8 | BR rules stipulated he must stop immediately and notify the signalman . |
| 9 | In so far as it is necessary to have new political institutions , the Community should cherish rather than threaten the rich diversity of nations and regions within it . |
| 10 | We should be doing all that we can to promote the revival of singing , and we should encourage rather than stifle the musical creativity of those who write and perform . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of our members are asking what this means and there are some suggestions that they should go ahead and use the title anyway . ’ |
| 12 | The lesson concluded with the request that the youngsters should go home and make the ‘ beans on toast for themselves ’ and ask their mothers if they had described the process accurately . |
| 13 | I think this system of getting all the children to sit round a table and be taught as a group is wrong , I think they should be taught individually , should have a desk of their own and , and the teacher should stand there and deliver the lesson er to each person but that 's , that 's the way it goes |
| 14 | Therefore , as the firm takes on more of the cheaper form of financing , debt , the cost of equity should rise so as to offset the advantage and maintain a constant cost of capital regardless of the debt — equity ratio . |
| 15 | If by established principles of English law it is clear that Derbyshire County Council has the right to sue for libel then this court must say so and let the action proceed . |
| 16 | Amongst those who disagreed it was frequently asserted that the provision of a sealed form 53 prior to completion might facilitate rather than hinder the commission of a fraud . |
| 17 | — No , my dear , I 'll stay here and hold the fort . |
| 18 | I 'll stay here and coordinate the search . |
| 19 | A good dealer might ring later and reassure the client . |
| 20 | Ag again with the , the recommendations I think you , you , you went on to say can I , can I go forward in , in getting the recommendations erm without actually explaining what you were doing , you just came back and said so I 'll go ahead and get the recommendations and come back and see you in two weeks ' time and like what recommendation ? |
| 21 | I 'll go there and kiss the stones , and I 'll go and kiss me old mother who is living in Dublin with some nuns . |
| 22 | I 'll walk home and pick the car up in the morning . ’ |
| 23 | This involves working mentally and physically to keep distractions at bay , guarding the tongue to speak little and to the point , taking especial care not to misrepresent others , living as if death might come tomorrow and balancing the needs of the body with the longings of the spirit in discretion . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , perhaps when you are settled here we might get together and tour the local antique shops . ’ |
| 25 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 26 | Some authorities require a restriction on the number of weeks a buyer may purchase so as to avoid the possibility of permanent use by a single owner . |
| 27 | Since anthropology is so much involved with recreating alien belief-worlds , with all the varied and competing value-systems that exist in other cultures , just as in our own , literary critics who would wish to acquire more flexibility in dealing with that collision of view-points which forms the basic experience of drama could do worse than to consult the anthropologists . |
| 28 | Agencies that dream up advertisements to go in magazines could do worse than read the publications first |
| 29 | IF JEFFREY Archer were looking for a plot for his next novel , he could do worse than examine the rise and rise of Mr John Major 's first female Cabinet ministers , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Mrs Gillian Shephard . |
| 30 | I could run ahead and get the van . ’ |