Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 2 | Although it was originally intended to receive exhibitions rather than to devise and produce them , the new federal Kunsthalle is now setting its sights higher . |
| 3 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 4 | Together they laugh at and take to pieces these images of masculinity , rather than sexualising and adoring them . |
| 5 | Is the policy still to sit it out and wait rather than try and force your way into the prison ? |
| 6 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 7 | It could underline their responsibility for health rather than supply and encourage them to view managed units as a rather than the supplier of services . |
| 8 | " He summoned a meeting , where a simple plan was very simply found : since they had nothing left but their lives and their bodies , they chose to die nobly rather than to betray and abandon their king " . |