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The pharmaceutical companies have announced new strategies to increase the number of new drugs in their development pipelines in that they will create strategic partnerships with small biotechnology firms.
A. to increase the number of new drugs in their development pipelines in that they will create
B. to increase in their development pipelines the number of new drugs by the creation of
C. to increase the number of new drugs in their development pipelines by creating
D. for increasing the number of new drugs in their development pipelines, and creating
E. for increasing the number of new development pipeline drugs in the creation of
Meaning:
1. The pharma companies have announced new strategies
2. The strategies are meant to increase the number of drugs in the pipeline
3. The new strategies are then explained.
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A. to increase the number of new drugs in their development pipelines in that they will create
1.
in that is a conjunction which appropriately starts a clause. It also does a good job linking the two clauses - The second explains the strategies talked about in the first clause.
2. Here
to increase is a way better idiom when compared to
for increasing, since it indicates purpose (infinitive of purpose). GMAT always prefers an infintive phrase to a 'for + [gerund]' construction when expressing intent.
3. 'They' is the subject pronoun in the second clause and therefore unambiguously refers back to the subject of the first clause.
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B. to increase in their development pipelines the number of new drugs by the creation of
1. In one interpretation of the sentence,
by the creation of is horribly stating that it was the announcement that was done by doing the creation of the partnerships. "The companies have announced .... by the creation of ..."
2. 'to increase in their development pipelines the number of new drugs' construction is awful sounding.
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C. to increase the number of new drugs in their development pipelines by creating
1. Rejected for the same reason as option B Pt 1 - 'by creating'
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D. for increasing the number of new drugs in their development pipelines, and creating
1.
for increasing is always less preferred to
to increase, when one is stating the purpose of something.
2.
and creating has broken the link between the two clauses, and hence there is no way to tell whether the partnerships had anything to do with the new strategies.
E.
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for increasing the number of new development pipeline drugs in the creation of
1. Same reason as option D -
for increasing 2. 'Increase in number of new development pipeline drugs' is not as clear meaning wise as 'Increase in the number of new drugs in development pipelines'.
3.
in the creation of - No good reason justifying usage of this phrase.
IMO Option A is correct.