Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] rather [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were essentially seminaries — a majority of undergraduates went into the church in the first half of the century- and finishing schools , where teaching rather than research was the norm . |
| 2 | This is due to the seasonal nature of so much agricultural work , which makes it cheaper for the company to employ labourers during the planting or harvesting rather than maintain a labour force throughout the year . |
| 3 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 4 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 5 | Leisure activities still take place here although they are more likely to be water skiing , wind surfing and sailing rather than bathing . |
| 6 | In the course of the book Nash seems to adopt a rather detached stance on the above matters , describing rather than criticising , and mentioning rather than challenging the given situation . |
| 7 | Coppicing and laying rather than flailing provided a better stock-proof boundary which would also benefit wildlife . |
| 8 | President Mugabe aroused the students ' anger last weekend with a speech accusing them of drinking and smoking too much and misbehaving rather than studying . |
| 9 | We hoped our approach to the curriculum would be seen as enabling rather than restricting , a starting point for teachers in their discussions with their colleagues , not a strait-jacket . |
| 10 | We therefore included the case in our analysis for the post-Black period 1984–90 as this information should be regarded as testing rather than generating the Seascale hypothesis . |
| 11 | Only the Lithuanians accounted for so large a proportion of the population of their own republic , and the measure was widely seen as blocking rather than facilitating a transition to fully independent status . |