Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any departure from it would be more likely to whet appetites than to satisfy them . |
| 2 | It was easier to grant favours than to receive them . |
| 3 | In its annual report of 1938 the Committee stated that ‘ the existing scale of benefits can not be regarded as so fully meeting needs as to make it undesirable to raise them further ’ and continued , ‘ if … the wage system made allowance for dependency , the main objection to further increase in the rates of benefit would be removed ’ ( Quoted in Green , 1938 ) . |
| 4 | It was the way of things , always easier to get into a police station to answer questions than to get out again . |
| 5 | Golding and Middleton argued that the " focusing of moral outrage on items like this does as much to create concern as to reflect it . " |
| 6 | Kate Probst , of Resources for the Future , argues that it is usually fairer to penalise polluters than to leave the taxpayer to clean up dirty old sites . |
| 7 | In a busy life , it is easier to avoid embarrassment than to have to extricate oneself from it . |
| 8 | They were more anxious to escape criticism than to honour Martin . |
| 9 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |
| 10 | This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding , and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn . |
| 11 | The argument does not rely on research in the conventional sense , certainly not my own and only occasionally other people 's , which I shall mention in any case more to illustrate points than to prove them . |
| 12 | However , arguments along the lines of ‘ the Russians ’ real objective was less their alleged anxiety to protect Cuba than to alter the whole balance of global strategy to their advantage by one bold stroke' ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 49 ) would seem to raise something of a false dilemma . |
| 13 | Heavy consumers of technology , most banks have so far used it more to automate existing ways of doing things than to invent entirely new ones . |
| 14 | Hence , a distribution of dividends from the company 's reserves may be more likely to reduce prices than to support them . |
| 15 | But Calero , for all his ‘ democratic armour ’ , wished more to fight wars than to play at politics ; the fragile political coalition of leaders did not survive , and there was no constitutional cruise . |
| 16 | In the last reports they were able to compile , in April 1940 , Sopade observers were still noting that ‘ many prefer to keep Hitler than to envisage what could come after a defeat ’ , that fear of chaos and revolution still predominated among the bourgeoisie , but that ‘ there is no doubt that up to now the majority of the people is still convinced of Germany 's victory ’ . |
| 17 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 18 | Parliamentary question time is frequently noisy ; the interchanges are more concerned to make debating points than to add to public enlightenment . |
| 19 | My Lords , this appeal concerns the ambit of that right to silence which is known as the privilege against self-incrimination and entitles any person to refuse to answer questions or to disclose documents if to do so would tend to expose him to proceedings for a criminal offence . |
| 20 | A decade passed before there was any general awareness that it is more difficult to stop taking benzodiazepines than to start , and that weaning dependent patients from their drugs could be a painful process . |
| 21 | The aim of imposing this levy is not so much to raise revenue as to bestow contributory rights on lower paid , part-time workers . |
| 22 | They argue that a socialist alternative is not offered because the Labour Party is not so much concerned to abolish capitalism as to manage it better than the other parties . |
| 23 | The purpose is less to get forgiveness than to get some relief from the tension and the pain . |
| 24 | You may be the kind of person who finds it easier to have sex than to talk about it , whether with new or regular partners . |
| 25 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |
| 26 | But the prime task of the new ideology of home and the family was less to influence others than to articulate the class feelings and experiences of the bourgeoisie itself . |
| 27 | I think it is much more valuable to hear and play instruments than to read about them . |
| 28 | Furthermore , it is more advantageous for management to subscribe shares than to acquire them by transfer , because they may then be entitled to income tax relief pursuant to s574 Taxes Act 1988 if the venture fails . |
| 29 | Yet the government has always found it safer to regulate companies than to tax consumers , and Mr Bush is especially averse to taxes . |
| 30 | The talks took place as a new union study suggested that it would cost more in the long-term to close pits than to keep most of them open . |