Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be worthless to dwell on the strengths and weaknesses of the regrading exercise here , other than to acknowledge the apparent difficulties associated with it . |
| 2 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 3 | In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water . |
| 4 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 5 | A detailed look at the books and some simple arithmetic proved that it would be cheaper to launch a new , specialist title than to revive an old one ! |
| 6 | Many Americans would prefer to think that Lee Iacocca singlehandedly saved Chrysler from bankruptcy than to accept the real story : a large team of people with diverse backgrounds and interests joined together to rescue the ailing company . |
| 7 | Oh nothing is worse Than to flog a dead horse |
| 8 | In these conditions it should not be necessary to use direct-feed chemical fertilizers , herbicides , or pesticides other than to meet an occasional crisis , probably caused by a slip-up in our husbandry . |
| 9 | ‘ What greater joy than to find a loving companion ? |
| 10 | Nothing can be more exasperating to the borrower of library books than to find a vital page or two missing from the denouement of his thriller . |
| 11 | You will also find that to generate the right question is usually more difficult than to find the right answer . |
| 12 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 13 | Very frequently judges sought to bring the parties to an amicable settlement ( which was more likely to be observed ) rather than to pass an outright sentence . |
| 14 | In practice the express remedies were actually in many cases fairly limited , so that the effect of such guarantees was rather to avoid the manufacturer 's liability than to provide an additional remedy . |
| 15 | After early work on the design and building of hostels for the Ministry of Supply , Holford was recruited to the Reconstruction Group to serve Lord Reith at the Ministry of Works ; his job , together with that of a team assembled under him and a career civil servant , H.L.G. Vincent , was no less than to secure an immediate strengthening of the planning system and the encouragement of planning work in local authorities . |
| 16 | The result was the rationalisation of the industrial structure , which Professor G.C. Allen has summed up : ‘ The chief effect of government intervention between the wars was to defend the failures rather than to encourage the enterprising ’ . |
| 17 | In other words the objective is to escape from an uncomfortable position rather than to reach a particular destination . |
| 18 | The mind prefers to work on something tangible than to explore the unknown . |
| 19 | No more low-tech warming of domestic water supplies — these scientists were trying nothing less than to mimic the early stages of photosynthesis , it collecting solar photons and trapping their energy in an act of electronic charge separation . |
| 20 | While he did not glamorize the Munich settlement , he insisted that ‘ the Prime Minister was right to choose the catastrophe of yielding to improper procedure rather than to choose the terrible catastrophe of war . ’ |
| 21 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's better to remain a maid , than to wed the wrong man . ’ |
| 23 | Is n't it a far better use of public money to create training and job creation rather than to buy a prime site with public money ? |
| 24 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 25 | The article , then , is exploratory rather than definitive , inciting theory rather than assuming it , attempting to open up some territory or to clear some ground rather than to fortify a final position . |
| 26 | In fact , on a fast PC with an average hard disk , it can be quicker to load a smaller file and decompress rather than to load the full-sized equivalent . |
| 27 | But the Burgermeister , usually so jovial and noisy , had proved to be exceedingly sound , never saying anything at all at the rehearsal other than to praise the faint-hearted at the very end . |
| 28 | It is more useful to argue the variable nature of the relationship between the individual and society than to assume a linear evolution towards the autonomous self . |
| 29 | By using local assembly , the final cost of transport may be reduced as it is often more economical to ship containers of parts for assembly than to ship the finished bulky manufactured product . |
| 30 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |