Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] rather [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … not particularly comforting , since many of the goals which we as a nation set ourselves , the policies which we pursue and the material objectives to which we attach importance tend to increase rather than to diminish the incidence of crime . |
| 2 | For example , the days of dull , impenetrable forms that seemed designed to obscure rather than to convey information are passing . |
| 3 | The primary division amongst critical views lies between readings of these tales as fundamentally serious moral reflections on the state of humankind despite their undeniably comic appearance , and readings of them as essentially lighthearted tales , designed to amuse rather than to disturb , elevating solaas well above sentence . |
| 4 | The Poor Law had been designed to prevent rather than to relieve unemployment and relatively few ‘ able-bodied ’ men had ever resorted to it . |
| 5 | At the launch of Smith 's campaign , it soon became clear that he intends to encourage rather than to lead the debate about the party 's future . |
| 6 | In all forms of natural therapy , which aim to stimulate rather than to suppress the body 's natural defences , the axiom is : by creating favourable conditions in the whole person , body-mind-spirit , the body will heal itself . |
| 7 | The Act aimed to reinforce rather than to diminish parental responsibility by requiring the presence of parents in court and by increasing the courts ' powers to require parents to pay fines for their children 's offences . |
| 8 | The order for discovery is often the point of no return for the plaintiff in a libel action : it is the stage at which some prefer to discontinue rather than to open their files . |
| 9 | Its somewhat sketchy character suggests , in fact , that his main purpose was simply to finish what he had begun rather than to give urgent or forceful expression to his views . |
| 10 | There are those who spend their lives courting the unobtainable , pursuing impossible dreams ; and there are the Don Juans and femmes fatales who prefer to travel rather than to arrive , leaving behind them a path strewn with broken hearts . |
| 11 | Philips — like Siemens and GEC — attempted to evolve rather than to make radical changes of direction . |