Example sentences of "rather [conj] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bulking agents are sometimes added to maintain easy pathways for nutrients ( especially oxygen ) to get to microorganisms , rather than everything collapsing into a mass that is not conducive to diffusion . |
| 2 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 3 | to be able to convince c er our clients that they should come to us rather than somebody else . |
| 4 | He had picked somebody he thought he could work with smoothly rather than somebody who might try to steal the credit . |
| 5 | Well it is remarkable that it 's taken until nineteen ninety two for the Labour party to discover that democracy consists in one man one vote rather than somebody holding up holding up a card |
| 6 | Rather than somebody as I say like me who sat down there and he 'd just quote all these figures and you would n't know what the hell he was on about and just , all you , all I would understand at the end is that 's what you got ta pay . |
| 7 | It was something rather than nothing . |
| 8 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 9 | One could relax the postulate of decisiveness of inhibition , and propose instead that the activation of letter detectors was more-or-less rather than all-or-none . |
| 10 | ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in . |
| 11 | Pop should be a scarce resource , rather than something ‘ deserved ’ ( like free milk ) . |
| 12 | Charlotte Brunsdon 's excellent collection Films for Women ( 1986 ) and E. Deirdre Pribram 's equally useful Female Spectators ( 1988 ) both emphasise the heterogeneity of female spectatorship , whilst at the same time seeing film-viewing as very much a social practice rather than something which individuals undergo , passively , in the dark . |
| 13 | You can be as active or as lazy as you wish ; the important thing is that it is something you want to do rather than something you feel you should do ; |
| 14 | It is important to believe that you have acquired most of your ways of behaving because that opens up the possibility of behaviour being malleable rather than something fixed and unchanging . |
| 15 | A crash or a motoring conviction was viewed as unlucky , rather than something that should have been avoided . |
| 16 | Guitars themselves have become revered icons rather than something to play music with . |
| 17 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 18 | A reward needs to be something that you are in control of and you have the power to give yourself , rather than something that someone else can give you . |
| 19 | You may prefer to pay more for a course geared specifically to the needs of health visitors rather than something more general , and may be able to recoup at least part of the costs of attending a course from your local continuing education budget . |
| 20 | The consistency of these distortions and the immediacy with which they occur convinced the Gestalt psychologists that they were dealing with a fundamental property of the brain rather than something that we have learned . |
| 21 | In particular data being used by the dual processors must be stored on the the processors have to be attached to a IBM 9333 high performance disk system , shared data must be capable of storage on raw disk configurations rather than something like the the AIX Journaled File System and software must be specifically configured to work with the HACMP/6000 Distributed Lock Manager . |
| 22 | Second , while two thirds of respondents espoused an open systems policy , in reality few are adopting it — again , open systems is regarded as a technology to keep the computing professionals amused rather than something that will show real business benefits . |
| 23 | Professionals segregate according to expert criteria , but ‘ what is it to be human ? ’ sounds like a philosophical question — in which case it is also a political one — rather than something for experts to decide . |
| 24 | This , of course , was not Basil 's intention , and was , like the distortions of Basic Design , due more to an unimaginative application of ideas rather than something intrinsically wrong in the idea itself . |
| 25 | It is viewed as a ‘ foreign body ’ invading the department , rather than something which could be of potential value . |
| 26 | This transience is largely a consequence of their own choice and wishes rather than something forced upon them . |
| 27 | They tend to imply that the item in theme position ( in the case of predicated themes ) or the item in rheme position ( in the case of identifying themes ) is chosen from a set of possible items as the one worthy of the hearer's/reader 's attention : It was the book ( rather than something else ) which received a great deal of publicity in China ; What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity ( rather than bad reviews , for instance ) . |
| 28 | For instance , using wa rather than something closer to English however ( third sentence in the English text ) , reads smoothly in Arabic but sacrifices some of the precision of the English conjunction . |
| 29 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 30 | A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ? |