Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 2 | Similarly , he argued , Britain should seek to create a Social Charter of its own liking , rather than merely oppose the adoption of any social charter at all . |
| 3 | What , what we need to do we 've got a handout for you on this so you can spend more time looking at yourself , or what you need to do is you need to compare your scores against those rather than just take the highest one . |
| 4 | Erm , I would like to propose , I 'm not sure correct form , that we minute this council 's support and appreciation for the work of the county archivist , rather than just note the report . |
| 5 | The Council will be particularly interested in pilot proposals which further enhance the Development Programme rather than simply duplicate the work of either the 1988 pilots or central developments planned to take place during session 1988–89 . |
| 6 | Hence rather than simply investigate the ability of a tag to follow other tags , it also incorporates the ability of the tag to precede it 's successors . |
| 7 | Rather than explicitly store the root forms as strings an indexing method has been developed . |
| 8 | Hence , rather than actually store the string accommodation ladder in a tree , it is necessary only to store the integers 2049 12467 . |
| 9 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 10 | He breathed through his mouth to try and not smell the fungus smell from his crutch . |
| 11 | And procedures are intended to foster and not inhibit the exercising of professional engineering judgement and creative problem solving . |
| 12 | George Bush chose him to run the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) at a time when he still thought he could co-opt and not alienate the green lobby . |
| 13 | On housing ‘ it is not in general desirable to seek to control the disposal of private houses through planning restrictions ’ ; on industry and commerce ‘ policies and proposals … should promote and not hinder the regeneration of industry and reflect an up to date and realistic view of the scale , pattern and diversity of industry ’ ; on retail development ‘ policies and proposals should neither seek to regulate competition between retailers nor to stifle the evolution of new forms of retail provision ’ ; and on agriculture and forestry ‘ authorities should take account of the need to ensure that no more than an essential minimum of agricultural land is diverted to development ’ . |
| 14 | Regrettably , those not bonded by marriage have a higher propensity to break up and not pay the mortgage . ’ |
| 15 | If the top and bottom of the page are left open the eye tends to wander away and not locate the beginning of the next column properly . |
| 16 | The archbishop also called , in a newspaper interview in November 1984 , for ‘ leadership in our national life which will unite and not divide the nation ’ . |
| 17 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 18 | If anyone points out that these artefacts have achieved international renown while remaining perfectly upright , I shall sulk and not reveal the most significant point in last night 's QED ( BBC1 ) documentary , Propping Up Pisa . |
| 19 | And why raise the subject now , just when she wanted to get back to her own office to quell the bewildering inner turbulence which had disturbed the past few minutes ? |
| 20 | And why spoil the perfection of this moment ? |
| 21 | And why tear the joint inside out ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But why change the kind of victim ? |
| 23 | Well , all right , your editorial ‘ Holy bat-poo ’ ( 18 February ) is n't meant to be taken too seriously , but why vilify the harmless bat ? |
| 24 | But why dump the bodies on us ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But why copy the method , if this time the killer is someone else ? ’ |
| 26 | But why take the child with her ? |
| 27 | This annoyance should not influence his judgement , but why take the risk ? |
| 28 | Indeed if they fail to take the initiative they might as well abandon the people of the area to a grim fate . |
| 29 | You may as well forget the idea of banning things . |
| 30 | it 's coming up to time now anyway so we might as well forget the break . |