Example sentences of "[v-ing] rather [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text evolves , through successive steps of minor redrafting rather than through the more mysterious process of gestation , and with less chance of outside events or circumstances making you forget where you have got to . |
| 2 | Alternatively , there is MID- CRED where details of all beneficiaries are established on our computer file , but authorisation is given in writing rather than over the telephone . |
| 3 | ‘ What the counsellor does is to concentrate on how the client feels about the incidents or facts he is reporting rather than on the facts themselves , and then to respond to what appears to be the most significant part of each complex sequence … |
| 4 | But at the same time , we must pay careful attention to what such young people are actually doing rather than to the easy caricatures of them which some seem to prefer . |
| 5 | ‘ . But if rule-following is a practice , which must be public only in the sense of being a way of behaving rather than in the sense of being regulated by a community , how are we to derive from that thought the conclusion that the solipsist 's private language is impossible ? |
| 6 | A further complication is that the function of a particular segment may depend on just which interpretations are most likely at that point in processing rather than on the language system as a whole . |
| 7 | The first drafts of the play are concerned to set the pattern of action and feeling rather than with the exploration of individual characters — this formalistic approach to his task was demonstrated in the preparation of a later drama , when he used a blackboard to set out the play and used symbols to denote his characters . |
| 8 | I suggest that they are involved in the sport of shooting rather than in the art of ferreting . |