Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Cooper implied , a tutor-organiser 's success in encouraging rather than destroying the voluntary movement is largely , matter of degree — of knowing how much to do to advance the WEA here and there , while leaving as much as possible to the voluntary members . |
| 2 | If there is uncertainty and the operator is looking down when saying the totals , it may be useful to make no move . |
| 3 | We therefore included the case in our analysis for the post-Black period 1984–90 as this information should be regarded as testing rather than generating the Seascale hypothesis . |
| 4 | He poured a cup of watered wine for Corbett and then joined him , sipping carefully while studying the English clerk . |
| 5 | Mr Jeffrey Record , a military analyst at the Hudson Institute and a former aide to the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman , Mr Sam Nunn , said it was likely to take months to rebuild the PDF into a military institution capable of supporting rather than threatening the new civilian government . |
| 6 | It was the perfect way to round off the season , although Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna might not have agreed after crashing out while disputing the lead . |
| 7 | In the video Jones is , in the main , observing rather than advocating the ruthless antics of the hard men . |
| 8 | Gaitskell 's initiative , powerful and well-intentioned though it was , was counter-productive , reinforcing rather than dissolving the prejudices within the industry which stood in the way of a more rational pricing policy . |
| 9 | The Dutch company 's small production plant at Weert will be able to continue running efficiently while supplying the diminishing demand for both companies — small amounts of CFCs will still be permitted in essential medical uses after the deadline . |
| 10 | On 9 November , the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 came into effect , suspending rather than abolishing the death penalty for those categories of murder that had been capital . |
| 11 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 12 | Any expressions of the desire for democracy in China were usually inspired by their patriotism and their wish to improve the nation 's standing rather than to over-throw the system . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the act of changing rather than continuing the use can of itself constitute ‘ development ’ ; this can be a very important consideration . |
| 14 | In the course of the book Nash seems to adopt a rather detached stance on the above matters , describing rather than criticising , and mentioning rather than challenging the given situation . |
| 15 | The thought came to him in an instant as he stood , hesitating over whether to join the fight . |