Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You will also find that to generate the right question is usually more difficult than to find the right answer . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I have so much more important concerns on my mind that I am hardly fit for anything , or to wish for anything than to receive the last releasing stroke . |
| 8 | The mind prefers to work on something tangible than to explore the unknown . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's better to remain a maid , than to wed the wrong man . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Second Crusade was a less spectacular affair , failing because of many factors : the North German princes decided to direct their crusade against the pagan , Slavonic-speaking Wends ; the French forces nearly attacked Constantinople as a result of severe relations between East and West ; the native crusader barons were more determined to sustain their alliances with Moslem rulers in the Middle East than to help the next wave of crusaders ( who might themselves claim lands ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the present circumstances , it is more important to widen the Community — to include the nations of EFTA and the new democracies of eastern Europe — than to deepen the political union among the Twelve . |
| 18 | It would be far more useful to Africa to have a smaller amount of total aid on this basis , than to retain the present system where thinking and strategy is dominated by donors , to the extent that national governments have almost lost control over public initiatives in their own countries . |
| 19 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 20 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 21 | Since a number of key personnel served in more than one section and since the new body had plenary as well as sectional meetings , it makes better sense to speak of a single " Commission " than to use the plural terminology of contemporaries . |
| 22 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 23 | However , if it 's being done to honour British art rather than to satisfy the mundane demands of space packaging , that could be quite interesting . |
| 24 | On the other hand , this argument assumes that the function of judicial review is first and foremost to provide redress against illegal government action rather than to protect the personal interests of litigants . |
| 25 | It did not of course escape Mommsen that there can hardly be a more foolish political speculation , " eine thorichtere politische Spekulation " , than to represent the Roman constitution as a mixed constitution and to derive from it the success of Rome ( Rom . |
| 26 | This is why , among other reasons , orthodox sociology has found it ( apparently ) easier to analyse cultural effects , where large numbers and control groups are available , than to analyse the social relations of cultural production . |
| 27 | And of those who would hang , it is less for retribution than to save the next victim . |
| 28 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 29 | It is so much easier to prescribe a pill than to change the social conditions that may be responsible for the severity of the symptoms . |
| 30 | If this behavior is inherent in the sample , very little can be done about it except to change the exciting wavelength to one that reduces the effect . |