Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her racially prejudiced views did n't help the matter , but it was what she was thinking rather than what she said which added flame to the fire of her anger . |
| 2 | Although excitement mounted in the last movement , it was induced rather than fermented . |
| 3 | In the longer term , it was Reformed rather than Lutheran theology that came to dominate Elizabethan Protestantism . |
| 4 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 5 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 6 | All right then — ’ he edged closer so that he was whispering rather than shouting over the juke-box ‘ — here 's the nastiest rumour I 've ever heard about Steenie — really nasty rumour . |