Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is wrong , let them tell us why , rather than differentiate between dead bodies on the basis of whether a diagnosis was made before or after death , or whether the patient stops breathing in the accident and emergency department rather than a medical ward . |
| 2 | But quite unlike car manufacturers , Japanese computer makers began by exporting the high end of the product line rather than beginning with lower-priced models and trading up . |
| 3 | Furthermore , rivals may , owing to the different combination of activities in their groups , not be able to bear initial losses , which would cause financial distress rather than lead to balanced growth . |
| 4 | However , if the old debt is left in place rather than replaced by new money , ss 238 , 239 and 245 of the Insolvency Act 1986 need to be considered . |
| 5 | It is excellent however you use it , but rather than fiddling with small mince pies , my great aunts from Norfolk Island made huge double-crusted pies , the pineapple layered between home-made mince meat , rich with rum and spices . |
| 6 | I paint directly using simple compositions , which tend to be linear , even flat , rather than based on any sophisticated concept of leading the viewer 's eye into the picture . |
| 7 | One method ( Ingersoll et al. , 1984 ) obviates this by identifying minerals within the clast , rather than the complete clast , although this produces a modal composition based on total mineralogy rather than based on detrital grain mineralogy . |
| 8 | The argument is , and I accept the fact , that bowlers probably prefer their keepers standing back taking catches rather than looking for rare leg-side stumping opportunities . ’ |
| 9 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 10 | She has sought to highlight the positive ethical and aesthetic implications of Victorian science as they appear in literature ( rather than looking for further ammunition for what she calls the sterile and artificial battle of literature against science ) . |
| 11 | The project , established in tandem with a similar effort mounted by the US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency , aims to encourage business to monitor its entire production process rather than looking for piecemeal solutions . |
| 12 | Rather than looking for formal ‘ truth conditions ’ in an utterance , Rommetveit prefers to start from H. James ' point ‘ we trade on each other 's truths ’ ( Rommetveit , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 14 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 15 | An answer to this depends on a correct definition of human uniqueness rather than looking at those features Man shares with animals . ’ |
| 16 | The company is expected to tout the chip as providing the industry 's best dollar/pound-per-MIPS rather than competing on absolute performance . |
| 17 | You were supplementing rather than competing with other musical institutions and also indirectly benefiting other orchestras ? |
| 18 | Rath rather than competing against each other to develop basically their products have got ta be ab able to work with each others machines . |
| 19 | The SNH chairman , Magnus Magnusson , said : ‘ It is essential that we focus every effort towards prevention , rather than cure of accidental pollution . ’ |
| 20 | The National Democratic Front ( NDF ) , a front organization for both the CPP and the NPA , had offices in the Netherlands , and had insisted on an overseas venue , rather than meeting on Philippine soil , partly out of concern for the security of its negotiators . |
| 21 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |
| 22 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 23 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 24 | In fact , rather than jumping to simple solutions it is starting from first principles . |
| 25 | Japanese firms prefer to conspire rather than compete with each other , complain American rivals , and now they are doing it in our own backyard |
| 26 | For many of us , working as a group to make the East End Open Studios even a success has been a rare chance to cooperate rather than compete with other artists . |
| 27 | Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle-prod technique beloved of third division no-hopers . |
| 28 | The PROFITBOSS pro-acts his way to profit rather than reacting to potential loss . |
| 29 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 30 | It is best to use lime rather than cement for this type of infill |