Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] rather [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 2 | A defendant engaging in such conduct would , of course , be liable if injury to the animals ensued but his liability would be in what was classified before the abolition of the forms of action as case rather than trespass . |
| 3 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 4 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 5 | But most of the score-for 40 wind and percussion players without strings-is about immensity rather than detail , above all in the last movement . |
| 6 | Although there are laboratories in Europe and the United States that can grow chlamydia , again they are working as research rather than service units . |
| 7 | Just as the discussion of the inclusionary aspect of the definition of murder travelled beyond the concepts of intent and recklessness , so the discussion of the exclusionary aspect ( i.e. which killings fulfilling the definition should be classified as manslaughter rather than murder ? ) must consider the circumstances in which the killing took place and the culpability of the killer . |
| 8 | Three reasons may be advanced for labelling these cases as manslaughter rather than murder . |
| 9 | This also helps the printers with the positioning if you are supplying the images as artwork rather than treating them electronically . |
| 10 | They are interested in what new machinery is available , certainly , but at the moment it 's a case of window-shopping rather than parting with hard cash . |
| 11 | By the use of this technique , it will be possible to gain precise information about the nature of reading difficulties at the time of comprehension rather than relying on inferences made from memory performance . |
| 12 | Adorno 's preference for ‘ immanent method ’ — analysing and evaluating works in terms of the implications , the immanent tendencies , of their own mode of existence rather than approaching them comparatively — means that , having set his criteria for ‘ autonomous bourgeois music ’ from his interpretation of Beethoven , he exports those criteria to all music of the period and finds the rest of it wanting . |
| 13 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 14 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 15 | Labour 's rhetoric should be about engineering a genuine equality of opportunity rather than imposing a mythical equality of outcome … |
| 16 | Secondly , even though static analysis of the sort featured in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 may point to the stimulating effect of price reductions , dynamic considerations such as the effects of bankruptcy and default during the process of price deflation may serve to tighten the grip of recession rather than loosen it . |
| 17 | Yeah erm , the reason I want to follow it up is because would you not agree er with a number of major companies in this country and in a time of recession rather than cutting back on your marketing and advertising you should in fact be increasing it in fact when the marketing |
| 18 | Government comes to be seen as a matter of administration rather than rule and the ideologies of Machiavelli , Locke , Bentham , and Marx provide us with the modern cribs to politics ; a political training in default of a political education . |
| 19 | People adhere to astrology with a dogmatic frame of mind rather than having a sceptical , critical approach . |
| 20 | Most of his examples relate to inefficiency or lack of feedback rather than abuse of power ( except , perhaps , the issue of the editor as author ) . |
| 21 | Research has shown — as might be expected — that ‘ natural breaks ’ in programmes allow people to go to the lavatory or brew up a cup of tea rather than watch the commercials . |
| 22 | His Lordship then considered whether the decision of the Court of Appeal could be justified as an exercise of review rather than appeal . |
| 23 | But ‘ different ’ dreams need not necessarily be unpleasant ; they affect our waking consciousness , certainly , but the effect may be one of pleasure rather than torment — as with a sexual dream . |
| 24 | Central to the whole process was the CSF , the latest stage in the trend towards programme rather than project intervention . |
| 25 | The weakness of the country 's political parties — traditionally they tended to be forged around individuals and networks of patronage rather than clear ideological convictions , a tendency massively accentuated during the Marcos years — was highlighted with the approaching election in the form of splits , internal conflicts and unanticipated alliances . |
| 26 | Analysts , however , have taken the concept of ‘ literal meaning ’ as a ‘ neutral ’ and ‘ universal ’ tool of study rather than treating it as an object of study in itself , as a part of the ‘ social construction of reality ’ which they are trying to describe and to explain . |
| 27 | He advocated less harsh methods of training , and the use of kindness rather than force . |
| 28 | Some of the men had brought ropes and small axes with them so that , while they were in the forest , they could carry back a load of firewood rather than returning empty-handed if they did n't get the boar . |
| 29 | As long as the market continues to see older people as objects of pity rather than profit , it will take limited steps to attract them as customers . |
| 30 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |