Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Spring is generally the season in which to sow , but some germinate better if sown in late summer or early autumn , that is , as soon as the parent plants have flowered and set seed , and the seed has ripened . |
| 4 | I think this happened in when did it happen this in between and Jericho , somewhere around that region , where was it |
| 5 | Most burglars will flee empty handed rather than risk a confrontation . |
| 6 | The tone of the cymbals played thus is much inferior to that produced when a cymbal can be held so that both are free to vibrate equally when clashed together . |
| 7 | I think that may be easier to do rather than do them in situ , you know ? |
| 8 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 9 | This applies especially when teaching a dog to sit , because this is quite a relaxed posture and any distractions will upset the dog 's concentration . |
| 10 | I 'm sure many of you would prefer to get your weekly social started rather than listen to me . |
| 11 | Grendon is unlike all other prisons in Britain , not least because it 's easier to get out than to get in . |
| 12 | It is not hard to see how attempts to value popular culture or television , or to legitimize their academic study , come up against Adorno and Horkheimer as a check which it may be easier to think around than to think through . |
| 13 | By 1979 this had more than doubled ( Social Survey Division , OPCS , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 15 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
| 16 | She must know that , by any standards , the number of people in London who have been impoverished since 1979 has more than doubled . |
| 17 | Out of nerves and hero worship , he had three double Scotches before setting out and two more on the way , and then made himself self-destructively late by going into a greengrocer 's to buy some mint to chew so as to disperse the Scotch . |
| 18 | When is it appropriate to tell rather than ask ? |
| 19 | likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | BOARDS : There are a number of different boards you 're likely to come across while foraging around inside a PC . |
| 23 | You may be someone who has acknowledged biases and prejudices which are hard to set aside when making decisions , but which might lead you to overlook a suitable candidate if you did not use the job and personnel specifications as your guideline . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the General Staff 's view , instabilities in Britain 's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped . |
| 28 | These performed just as required , with pious platitudes followed by prevaricating and tut-tutting in a most gratifying manner . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Even such a sensitive cultural critic as Steven Marcus in The Other Victorians relies on a Freudian explanation , which by and large distorts rather than clarifies . |