Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [subord] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without such funding the best way to process general language is to acquire rather than develop a parser ( Patten , 1992 ) . |
| 2 | After he had released the ropes , the huge crowd watched as Simon began to ascend rather than descend the pole . |
| 3 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 4 | The Moldavians , given an ultimatum by Mr Gorbachev to settle their ethnic conflicts by the year 's end , decided to compromise rather than test the president 's readiness to resort to force . |
| 5 | These are designed to whet rather than satisfy the appetite — but short bibliographies help would-be students to delve further . |
| 6 | However , the evidence suggests that the net effect of each factor will be to increase rather than decrease the demand for HE . |
| 7 | To ‘ add in ’ gender as a specific category with a compelling need to be addressed is to increase rather than decrease the teacher 's predicament . |
| 8 | likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation . |
| 9 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 10 | These all look like important questions but , once again , the methodology of state-centrism serves to blur rather than clarify the issues . |
| 11 | She came home in despair and went back to the clinic to work rather than spend the Sunday alone , or try to pass the time with friends . |
| 12 | But after 1688 Parliament under Whig domination tended to restrict rather than enlarge the franchise , and some people even lost their voting rights . |
| 13 | They tend to aggravate rather than improve the poor self-esteem , poor individual coping skills and poor emotional maturity in the primary sufferer . |
| 14 | It was a kitchen to challenge rather than enhance the skills of any cook ambitious beyond the boiling of eggs . |
| 15 | With the older alloys , however , the descriptions used seem more intended to conceal rather than reveal the ingredients ! |
| 16 | You must be well acquainted with the materials of Part 2 in order to answer trainees ' questions but be careful not to provide information that goes beyond that given above ; try to amplify rather than extend the information . |
| 17 | Yet most delegates to the 1993 College and University Booksellers group conference appeared to relish rather than dread the challenges |
| 18 | Indeed , this was the very reason that the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Young Offenders had recommended , in 1927 , the reform of the system : ‘ When it is realised that these courts are specially equipped to help rather than punish the young offender , we hope that the reluctance to bring such children before will disappear . ’ |
| 19 | Such moves , however , have tended to restate rather than resolve the tension between control and autonomy . |
| 20 | We think , however , that some of the points made by the authors tend to confuse rather than clarify the issue . |
| 21 | The circumstances of Japan 's opening to the West thus seemed calculated to reinforce rather than diminish a sense of separateness and need for security in the face of manifestly unequal treatment . |
| 22 | These practices appear to recognise rather than replace the use of force in international relations . |
| 23 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 24 | the effects of this adversary relationship on public policy in terms of both continuity and substance was considered to threaten rather than enhance the effectiveness of government |
| 25 | Graham Paulter , sales manager of Ford Crouch End Motor Company , says : ‘ People still feel their jobs are insecure and they have mortgages to pay rather than get a new car . |
| 26 | A beneficent deity , Kukulkan was once held to have been a king from another land , who arrived in Yucatan by sea and elected to stay rather than risk the return voyage . |
| 27 | There has been no strike in agriculture since 1923 and the instinct of the farm worker is to shun rather than seek the kind of publicity which would be required to engender public support for his cause . |
| 28 | Being addressed to family responsibilities , this proposal should help to unify rather than divide the pressure groups which together constitute the family lobby . |
| 29 | Despite an undoubted attempt to enlarge rather than curtail the sphere of effective papal control — an attempt that on the surface at least succeeded again and again in particular areas from Holland to Brazil — the wider agenda was seldom set in Rome . |
| 30 | The Globex system , as it became known , is to complement rather than replace the open outcry system . |