Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although intended to demonstrate to all the world what the Industrial Revolution had achieved in England , the Exhibition seemed to the discriminating evidence rather of what it had destroyed . |
| 2 | The post Office Savings Bank is of little importance , and other savings banks , although permitted to exist in principle , are negligible . |
| 3 | Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine . |
| 4 | There are innumerable reasons why albums take longer than expected to get into the shops . |
| 5 | Although prepared to get into the occasional lather over the destruction of ‘ heritage ’ , many have little time for old money , and profess their heroes to be self-made men who have succeeded by their own efforts . |
| 6 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 7 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 8 | Using a proper name for a subject search may be easier for the user than attempting to guess at an appropriate subject heading , particularly if the object is to extract a class number to pursue subject searching at the shelves . |
| 9 | Suicide , when someone decides to take their own life by one means or another , rather than waiting to die through illness or accident , is not the same as euthanasia which may be defined as assisted death and which is a subject beyond the scope of this book . |
| 10 | It 'll be better than waiting to hear from them , ’ Mr MacTavish decided . |
| 11 | Selling this material , rather than paying to dispose of it , should realise an overall improvement of US$O.5 million per year . |
| 12 | If the South African option were withdrawn then Tozzi feels that Argentina are more than equipped to step into the breach . |
| 13 | This will occur if the viscosity of the magma is low enough for crystals to escape from the boundary layer on the convective timescale rather than remaining to contribute to the density evolution of the boundary layer . |
| 14 | So readers are helped to appreciate the beauty of Haiti 's traditions and to understand its problems , rather than invited to stare in horrified fascination at ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ rites . |
| 15 | We are , after all , ordinary people , albeit born to live in extraordinary circumstances . |
| 16 | rather than having to move out the way |
| 17 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 18 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 19 | Novell Inc has upgraded NetWare Lite for MS-DOS and Windows 1.1 by improving Windows support : users can now run NetWare Lite and Windows concurrently , and can manage the network from within Windows , rather than having to exit to MS-DOS for their network management . |
| 20 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 21 | You can then concentrate much more effectively on dealing with the wound , rather than having to battle with your dog in order to help it . |
| 22 | 3 It hopes to allow , and induce , students to work at the pace best suited to them as individuals , rather than having to proceed at the standard class rate . |
| 23 | Rather than having to type in the name of a program or press certain letters or numbers to select a function the user simply ‘ points ’ to what is required and presses a button . |
| 24 | In the end … not getting into a skid is always going to be better than having to cope with one . |
| 25 | The decision to press ahead with new builds on a large scale was based on Provincial 's conviction that it could reduce its losses if given the freedom to operate cost-effective diesel-mechanical rolling stock , allowing shorter but more frequent trains , than having to take on InterCity 's weary cast-off locos and hauled stock . |
| 26 | Where this range of charts scores is by including all the information on the one chart rather than having to go to other sources of reference . |
| 27 | Wh when you put people on the patches for the first time because the hormone goes straight into the system , rather than having to go through the gut , |
| 28 | Thinking about it it used to work with Sterland , but then he only came forward AFTER strach had the ball and when the opposition were pushed right back … and he crossed it while in front of the defender rather than having to get round him . |
| 29 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 30 | In particular I would like to know about your own background rather than having to guess at this while reading about a set of fictional characters . |