Example sentences of "[adj] rather [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market .
2 She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean .
3 It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation .
4 The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense .
5 The Argive krater is far smaller than the Attic amphora ; and it looks as though Athenian artists preferred to monumentalise vase-painting rather than venture into the new world of free painting .
6 You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject .
7 They keep fewer beef cattle and many of these are stall-fed rather than grazing in the fields .
8 Expertise is diffuse rather than held within the guided hand of the state authority .
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