Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb infin] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are various ways of improving the lot of hens but we do need to ask the hens themselves rather than make up their minds for them . |
| 2 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 3 | Bachelard himself preferred to give examples of such ruptures rather than theorize how they took place . |
| 4 | Both Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury were opposed to the marriage and rather than give up his proposed marriage , Edward abdicated on 11th . |
| 5 | We think of Michael who sent away his son , Luke , rather than give up his land ; and surely the picture of the man weeping with a lamb in his arms , which he has fetched ‘ from the rock ’ , calls up a wealth of Old and New Testament imagery ? |
| 6 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
| 7 | Evidently he was going to empty his bladder , and had chosen to do so in the concealment of the shadow cast by the fire escape , rather than foul up his doorway . |
| 8 | Daft thing about it , but I thought rather than hang on I 'll get in there and get off . |
| 9 | On one occasion he ostentatiously refused a challenge from an infuriated opponent in a lawsuit , preferring to endure public humiliation rather than call out his tormentor ( though he did complain to the Commons of the breach of privilege ) , and earned the public thanks of the Society for setting such a ‘ noble and Christian ’ example . |
| 10 | After all , one alternative upon discovering from an activity-based costing system that many products are unprofitable is to focus on reducing their costs rather than close down their production lines . |