Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] rather than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her frequent denunciations of high levels of taxation and public expenditure , of big government , and of the diminution of individual freedom and choice are passionate and deeply felt ; they are expressed in attacks on the baneful , almost ‘ immoral ’ , effects of inflation and of governments which debase the currency , or borrow rather than ‘ balance ’ their income and expenditure . |
| 2 | Dessert , when it is taken , might be fruit or yogurt rather than , say , treacle pudding or Black Forest Gateaux . |
| 3 | The actual configuration taken up in a solvent , in the liquid or in the solid , will , however , depend upon the sum total of all the interactions whether intrachain or interchain rather than upon the nearest neighbours only . |
| 4 | Wash or scrub rather than scrape or peel : skins seal in flavour and food value . |
| 5 | Their motives were seen as malicious damage or play rather than mental disorder or the settling of grudges . |
| 6 | Reform tends now to be seen not as treatment which is imagined to work independently of the will of the offender , but as measures which enable or assist rather than force offenders to improve their behaviour — or , in Norval Morris ' terms , ‘ facilitated change ’ rather than ‘ coerced cure ’ ( Morris , 1974 : 13–20 ) . |
| 7 | Avoid too much fat , saturated fat , and cholesterol — grill , bake , or boil rather than frying . |
| 8 | Some of the tunes are noodling , familiar and limp rather than languid . |
| 9 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 10 | Conclusions about coping responses which have a protective effect against a wide range of events are more easily obtained when the events are likely to be associated with acute anxiety and fear rather than depression ( e.g. Jaremko , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Yet would it not be better to abandon this headlong errand and sleep rather than go out once more into the drenching darkness ? |
| 12 | They inspired the efforts of Admirals D'Estaing and De Grasse in the War of the American Revolution to seize British West Indian islands and evade rather than destroy the fleets to which they were opposed . |
| 13 | You can concentrate your attentions on the feel and fit rather than any corrective properties of the shoe . |
| 14 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 15 | In corporatist reasoning elites collude and collaborate rather than compete . |
| 16 | Is the policy still to sit it out and wait rather than try and force your way into the prison ? |
| 17 | It looks at the ageing process with optimism and hope rather than despair . |
| 18 | Metaphors of grasping call attention to the active process of thinking rather than to static and distinct thoughts , and make it easier to understand that we interpret and organize rather than passively reflect . |
| 19 | By contrast , interpersonal skills encourage people to achieve their objectives by being honest and open rather than dishonest and furtive . |
| 20 | Little wonder that the savage Saxons regarded Christianity as a Frankish method of suppression and control rather than a true religion in its own right . |
| 21 | To a growing number of health professionals it was self-evident that Israel 's priority was the application of a system which ensured dependence and control rather than the good health of the community . |
| 22 | Ask your Redken stylist about the possibility of using TRUST or Vector Plus on large perm rods to give volume and control rather than lots of curl . |
| 23 | All of which implies strongly that concentration in UK manufacturing industry was prompted by the rewards to be gained from ownership and control rather than from increased scale of production [ Aaronovitch and Sawyer , 1975 ] . |
| 24 | Peter Smallridge , ADSS president , endorsed the emphasis on care and control rather than punishment . |
| 25 | Services have thus frequently emphasized the need for custody , punishment and control rather than for rehabilitation and reintegration . |
| 26 | In fact , on a fast PC with an average hard disk , it can be quicker to load a smaller file and decompress rather than to load the full-sized equivalent . |
| 27 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 28 | THE decision by Scotland 's Stephen McAllister 's to concentrate on rhythm and feel rather than technique brought him a rich dividend in the Balearic Open here yesterday . |
| 29 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 30 | When one foot is stuck in the Grey Miasma of H'rull it is much easier to step right in and sink rather than prolong the struggle . |