Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] than [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis of paraprofessional training needs to build upon and extend the qualities and skills that these workers bring to the team rather than to concentrate on socializing them to professional or organizational ways of doing things . |
| 2 | It was a conventional menu but one intended , he felt , to please the guests rather than to demonstrate the ingenuity of the cook . |
| 3 | An overwhelming desire to injure the plaintiff rather than to inform the public would have to be proved . |
| 4 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |
| 5 | The organisational complexities of allocating vacancies in local authority homes will differ in each area , but are designed to minimise conflict within the organisation rather than to meet the needs of individuals , where there is competition for places . |
| 6 | All the rhetoric about redoubling efforts to fulfil the plan or striding confidently towards the future in imitation of the Great Leader was intended in practice to pacify the people rather than to stimulate them . |
| 7 | The trick is to keep the line direct to the float , without disturbing the float more than to give it a slight lift . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | To say the very least , there is a suspicion that the legal system has been devised to suit the lawyers rather than to protect the public . |
| 10 | These exaggerations are offered to define the limits rather than to present accurate profiles , but they do highlight an educational dilemma . |
| 11 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 12 | The various techniques described and proforma letters set out in section 11 are intended to provide a helpful aid to the smooth running of the sale rather than to prescribe standard procedures and formats . |
| 13 | They acknowledged the stressfulness of the family situation but wanted help toward removing the stresses rather than to have George removed from the home . |
| 14 | All too often releases are written to please the management of the company rather than to fulfil the requirements of the media . |
| 15 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 16 | Tenth-century kings tried to achieve a balance between secular and ecclesiastical power in the localities rather than to crush the former ; this was demonstrably the aim of Otto I and Otto II when disposing of the tributes exacted from the Slav peoples . |
| 17 | Of course , the constant updating system will mean these errors can still be corrected later , but it is obviously desirable that the updating system should be used to incorporate changes in the language rather than to correct editorial mistakes . |
| 18 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |
| 19 | Merisel Inc has found that it 's easier to rush a catalogue out than to make sure that everything in it is correct , and in a series of schoolboy howlers in the current edition , the name of Conner Peripherals Inc is misspelled , many of its hard disks are described as floppies — and their access times of between 19ms to 1ms are rendered as 19Microsoft to 12Microsoft . |
| 20 | IF you like to feel at one with nature when you are having a tipple , you could do a lot worse than to make for the upstairs bar in the Shaftesbury Inn on Belfast 's Antrim Road . |
| 21 | Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded . |
| 22 | Similarly , the officer 's conception of an emergency is something demanding instant action to correct a problem rather than to apprehend a violator . |
| 23 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 24 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |