Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] rather [conj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 2 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 3 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 4 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 5 | The World Cup referees must have felt that the ball had ‘ been killed ’ on the ground and that it was therefore necessary to blow straight away for the penalty rather than wait for the advantage to occur . |
| 6 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 7 | ‘ Welfare scroungers ’ perform an important ideological function as symbols for those who the Welfare State has encouraged to exploit the system rather than fend for themselves . |
| 8 | Many of those that are dissatisfied with state education quietly withdraw their children from the system rather than campaign for improvements . |