Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most burglars will flee empty handed rather than risk a confrontation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ . 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm sure many of you would prefer to get your weekly social started rather than listen to me . |
| 5 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 6 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When is it appropriate to tell rather than ask ? |
| 9 | likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation . |
| 10 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | BOARDS : There are a number of different boards you 're likely to come across while foraging around inside a PC . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the General Staff 's view , instabilities in Britain 's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Despite the weather the blast-off went ahead as planned . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Registering 30.80 , Davy McClenaghan 's black bitch was always holding the staying-on Mineola Gift and she 'll be hard to beat again if beating Express to the corner . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Irving has demonstrated the tendency of investigators to employ interrogation techniqes likely to accentuate rather than ameliorate these and other distorting factors . |
| 25 | One of his shakier concerns was an air-taxi service with which he scared the wits out of travellers too innocent to know better than to fly with him . |
| 26 | US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment . |
| 27 | STAYING awake proved harder than staying out in front for American superstars Fred Couples and Davis Love at golf 's World Cup in Madrid yesterday . |
| 28 | Anybody who thought that P90s were a little bit old hat would be sure to think again when confronted with this guitar , because they sound just right . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Over the years , sensitive tutor-organisers , with the personality to work harmoniously with Federation and branch officers , have consistently been able to promote rather than to threaten voluntaryism . |