Example sentences of "[noun] rather [subord] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 2 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 3 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 4 | This was the main value they attributed to school work experience rather than seeing it in any direct sense as preparation for engineering work . |
| 5 | Well no cos it 's better receiving Valentines card rather than hearing it over the phone really why they gave them out |
| 6 | By now , having experienced the sensation of flying , he felt that his future was in flying the aircraft rather than servicing them on the ground ; in April 1934 he was finally accepted for pilot training . |
| 7 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 8 | Analysts , however , have taken the concept of ‘ literal meaning ’ as a ‘ neutral ’ and ‘ universal ’ tool of study rather than treating it as an object of study in itself , as a part of the ‘ social construction of reality ’ which they are trying to describe and to explain . |
| 9 | They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release . |
| 10 | Since LMS has restrictions ( such as levels of pay , conditions of service etc. ) it is important that staff are aware of these limitations rather than perceiving them as restrictions/lack of initiatives placed on them by management . |
| 11 | During periods of anaerobic carbohydrate metabolism , the worms may also excrete pyruvic acid rather than retaining it for future oxidation when aerobic metabolism is possible . |
| 12 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 13 | It is also good at containing costs and farming out its staff to work on site rather than keeping them in expensive offices of its own . |
| 14 | Johnson 's problem was the IAAF 's problem , and the bottom line was that when he was caught cheating in Seoul , the powers-that-be imposed the statutory punishment of two years rather than banning him for life . |
| 15 | In order to give people more confidence rather than surrounding them with gloom and doom , we should point out that , since 1979 , GDP has risen 22 per cent . |
| 16 | In fact such behaviour constitutes an act of discrimination and it should be noted that discrimination on the grounds of nationality , for example giving a preference to British goods as opposed to French goods rather than treating them on their merits , is an offence under Article 7 of the Rome Treaty . |
| 17 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 18 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 19 | Our plans for local government will bring decision-making closer to the people rather than alienating them by imposing an extra layer of bureaucracy on top of local government . |
| 20 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 21 | Companies can meet these needs by internal financing-maintaining a liquidity cushion and/or retaining profits rather than distributing them to shareholders . |
| 22 | We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives . |
| 23 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 24 | Adorno seems to offer such a ‘ sticking point ’ , and for that reason it seems worth confronting his critique rather than burying it as myth . |
| 25 | Trim excess fat from meat before cooking ; grill , poach and steam food rather than frying it in fat . |
| 26 | Similarly , in an effort to reach an accommodation with women trade unionists , the NUSEC rejected the traditional nineteenth-century feminist opposition to protective legislation , pledging to work for the extension of such legislation to men rather than opposing it for women . |
| 27 | Other proposals made by Konrad Oberhuber of the Albertina , Vienna , include attributing all the grisaille paintings in the exhibition to Mantegna 's own hand rather than dividing them between the master and his workshop , and assigning the magnificent ‘ The Man of Sorrows with two Angels ’ from Copenhagen one of the show 's great revelations to a much earlier dating than the 1500 given it by Christiansen and earlier scholars . |
| 28 | That the girls might be unaware of the camera rather than seducing it to death . |
| 29 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 30 | You may well think indeed that I 'm wasting your time in calling this an assumption rather than recognising it as a plain fact . |