Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 2 | Most burglars will flee empty handed rather than risk a confrontation . |
| 3 | I 'm sure many of you would prefer to get your weekly social started rather than listen to me . |
| 4 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 5 | When is it appropriate to tell rather than ask ? |
| 6 | likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation . |
| 7 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 8 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 9 | Workers who have adapted to tedious and undemanding jobs and therefore have no desire to enhance their skills and knowledge are , it is suggested , likely to resist rather than welcome jobs with the suggested core characteristics . |
| 10 | Once Smith finally began to criticise union influence in the party and voiced his preference for an electoral college composed solely of MPs and individual members , Gould penned a letter to the Guardian promising to strengthen rather than loosen union links . |
| 11 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 12 | In the General Staff 's view , instabilities in Britain 's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped . |
| 13 | This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse . |
| 14 | The tangled web of committees seemed to him likely to retard rather than accelerate development , and he hoped that clearer BEA responsibility would , as their headquarters staff were built up , lead to quicker progress . |
| 15 | Repeated applications add to the costs but , unlike broad-spectrum insecticides , pheromones are more likely to complement rather than interfere with the biological control of the pests . |
| 16 | Irving has demonstrated the tendency of investigators to employ interrogation techniqes likely to accentuate rather than ameliorate these and other distorting factors . |
| 17 | When not pressed too hard , the former prefer to disbelieve rather than believe and the latter to believe rather than disbelieve ; but both feel extremely uncomfortable if their tested . |
| 18 | Differences in status , promotion , salaries , perks , all divide rather than encourage teams . |
| 19 | To sum up , it seems logical to prevent rather than cure but of course prevention as well as being a politicoeconomic consideration , demands knowledge and self-discipline , and for these to be applied , individuals must develop an understanding of the nature and purpose of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 20 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 21 | Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur . |
| 22 | A trade union movement anxious to extend rather than limit its influence would seek to regain those functions that the state has stripped from it . |
| 23 | However , he was gentler towards other men 's weaknesses , and was always ready to help rather than blame them . |
| 24 | They were led in Parliament by a handful of quite senior Ministers ready to resign rather than go on serving in an administration they accused of appeasement to Hitler and downright obstinacy towards rearmament for defence . |