Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [adj] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , I recalled the Government 's commitment to ‘ work towards ’ the quality that we were studying , and could not understand exactly what I had envisaged by the notion of working towards the condition of being alive rather than dead . |
| 3 | Here in a land where you expect Lapp to fight Norwegian for the privilege of staying Lappish , Lapp was fighting Lapp for the privilege of being Norwegian rather than Swedish . |
| 4 | VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another . |
| 5 | Shakespeare uses it to make us feel how complex and deeply inward is the knot of life , the knot which , while it remains tied , causes Cleopatra to be alive rather than dead . |
| 6 | So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day . |