Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit . |
| 2 | He ruled with justice and mercy , befriending the Moors rather than seeking to overpower them with his presence . |
| 3 | It is much better to step in and help people firmly rather than having to punish them at a later stage . |
| 4 | It is much better to attempt to prevent fears arising , rather than having to rectify them at a later stage . |
| 5 | The aim of the three-to-seven-year leasing programme is to free 1,250 pubs from the brewers ' tie before the November deadline , rather than try to sell them into a depressed market . |
| 6 | The conclusion was that it would be better to destroy the larger animals humanely than to attempt to move them to a safer place . |
| 7 | A lot of labour yes but that was far far better than to have to turn them by hand you know . |
| 8 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 9 | It would be far better , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said , to conclude association agreements with those countries and to help them in every way to catch up and to adopt the principles of a single free market rather than trying to integrate them within new political structures . |
| 10 | Second , for the non-professional art lover , we shall be keeping the ‘ period rooms ’ , originally gifts from generous donors , while attempting to order them in a coherent sequence spanning the period from the fifteenth to the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Thousands of fires were reported to be burning , and in many cases firefighters were attacked while attempting to bring them under control . |
| 12 | Philips kept their ownership of the buildings and equipment used in the preparation and serving of the food , but made them available to ISS without charge ( while undertaking to maintain them in good order ) and Philips even paid for the electricity , water and telephone costs involved in the canteen operation and for the removal of waste . |
| 13 | With regard to China , they maintained the financial and other sanctions imposed in 1989 in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre , while agreeing to reconsider them in the light of future improvements concerning respect for human rights in particular . |
| 14 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 15 | I think of my role as trying to guide them with the interface of the business side , the bits that they might not be interested in or do n't want to be involved in . |