Example sentences of "[noun] rather [subord] [v-ing] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson 's problem was the IAAF 's problem , and the bottom line was that when he was caught cheating in Seoul , the powers-that-be imposed the statutory punishment of two years rather than banning him for life . |
| 2 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 3 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 4 | Thus we have the permitting conditions : the lack of parental control which might have brought the youth into more conventional alignments rather than setting him free to explore the more extravagant possibilities of a sporting career . |
| 5 | It aims at winning over a man by the power of love and gentle persuasion and by arousing in him a sense of justice rather than forcing him to submit out of fear and embarrassment . |