Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are leading in the European Community , rather than allowing others to lead us . |
| 2 | It is intended to be non-competitive and less about following rules than allowing people to express their own feelings and ideas . |
| 3 | If you find it hard to accept authority from younger nurses who may have less overall experience than you , try to explain your difficulties to them rather than allowing resentment to build up between you . |
| 4 | Amy has also learned to take responsibility for her own happiness , rather than trusting Joe to invest and harvest it for her . |
| 5 | ‘ I prefer it if men find ways of dressing to enhance their personality rather than using clothes to make up for the lack of one . |
| 6 | It may be that we need to offer love , support and encouragement rather than using anger to force a child into what we believe they should or should not do . |
| 7 | He scorned claims that Labour 's modest and prudent programme lacked a radical edge and scoffed at suggestions that the election was run for the entertainment of the media , rather than gaining power to serve the people . |
| 8 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 9 | IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect . |
| 10 | There are two possible benefits which may result from a moderate rate of inflation or from learning to live with the prevailing rate of inflation rather than adopting policies to reduce it . |
| 11 | It would be much cheaper , he added , than promoting policies to create new industries in the region . |
| 12 | Such a client pool could best be exploited by setting up sales within the country rather than wooing clients to bid at international level , which is currently their approach in Korea , another target area in their long-term world-wide strategy . |
| 13 | On the other hand they were available , recruiting them was simpler than persuading workers to come out from England , and they could never leave to work elsewhere . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's better than knowing , than having time to prepare ? ’ |
| 15 | Rather than asking children to describe what they did , he chose to focus on the time pupils took to record answers , using a keyboard . |
| 16 | Rather than eliciting terms to fill in a theoretical grid of ‘ kinship relations ’ the starting point will be all the various means used to refer to social actors ( linguists call this ‘ social deixis ’ ) . |
| 17 | She hesitated , as if expecting Loretta to pour scorn on the suggestion . |
| 18 | When he had n't moved , one of the humans had fetched a box out of the back of the truck and crept towards him as if expecting Masklin to explode . |
| 19 | He looked at Farrell as if asking permission to put it on , to cover his nakedness ; although , at the moment , decency was the last of his worries . |
| 20 | With one of her smallest smiles she glanced at Caroline as if affecting surprise to see her there . |
| 21 | The Mason nodded and made scooping gestures with his arms as if inviting Gabriel to give him a hug . |
| 22 | This is fundamentally a defensive approach reflecting an assumption that progress will inevitably erode biological diversity and quality , and the only way to prevent complete loss is to ring-fence a few of the best ‘ sites ’ for posterity while allowing development to take its course elsewhere . |
| 23 | These restrict some of the conceivable processes whereby excitation could occur , while allowing others to occur with very few restrictions . |
| 24 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 25 | Taxing all health in-surance benefits provided by employers over a basic insurance package would reduce some inequities at the high end while producing revenues to help small employers and self employed workers to buy insurance . |
| 26 | high-quality illustrations aid comprehension while helping students to get a feel for the story |
| 27 | We will enforce effective pollution control regulations while helping farmers to meet the high standards required . |
| 28 | Smartstream , Smartstream Analyzer and InterQ are aimed at organisations that want to reduce host computer cycles , automate application workflow and provide better information access to users at the desktop , while enabling customers to re-engineer business processes . |
| 29 | The CHAMPS installation will certainly meet that aim , and the interface of all its facilities allows us to manage the hotel while enabling guests to deal with their affairs in a quick and effective manner . ’ |
| 30 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |