Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 2 | This circuit is meant to be adapted to your specific needs , so rather than call it ‘ The Lakeland Way ’ or anything as horrendous as that , I would rather call it something antiquated like : ‘ Notes Towards a Considered Circular Pedestrian Peregrination Amongst some of the Major Fells and Dales of the County of Cumbria ’ , but it is hardly a working title . |
| 3 | The hit-squad 's leader had kept below rather than find himself in confrontation with Louis or be seen by his men to be subservient to or afraid of the Latino leader . |
| 4 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 5 | The last two examples , I 'm actually going to ask you to do tonight rather than keep you here this evening . |
| 6 | You may well , in the circumstances , be willing to take a step backwards rather than lose your job . |
| 7 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 8 | What they need is a purgative period in opposition in which they have time to think once more and sort themselves out . ’ |
| 9 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 10 | So too has the rise of feminist versions of the nature of parenting , in which , for example , the daily physical care of children has been demystified to lay bare the sheer labour involved , and hence the need to share this burden equally rather than regard it as an unequivocal privilege ( see , for example , Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 11 | Yet rather than desert their tradition , people have begun to search within the myths and rituals of their religion for interpretations that redress this balance . |
| 12 | Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they 'll knock it all over books . |