Example sentences of "rather [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bulking agents are sometimes added to maintain easy pathways for nutrients ( especially oxygen ) to get to microorganisms , rather than everything collapsing into a mass that is not conducive to diffusion . |
| 2 | It 's almost like I want to write about the people who are in our songs , rather than what happens to them . ’ |
| 3 | The problem for these , as for other feminists , seems to be only how we can help women get to these positions , rather than what happens to them once they are there . |
| 4 | It must be stressed , however , that this is what can be achieved by effort , innovation and good management in production , rather than what happens in a laissez-faire atmosphere . |
| 5 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 6 | This transience is largely a consequence of their own choice and wishes rather than something forced upon them . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | He remembered a big elegant room — whose he never learnt — with wide-spaced deep leather chairs that created a literally hid-back atmosphere rather than one hunched over a table . |
| 9 | Sisters and brothers let's continue to work and campaign and together to create a Europe with a future , rather than one locked in the past . |
| 10 | The reputation and prestige on which their position rested , therefore , was an intraparty one rather than one created in the public arena . |
| 11 | This difference does not interact with junction , F(9,50)=1.01 , suggesting that it is largely a general improvement rather than one related to aspects of individual junctions . |
| 12 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 13 | As Schotland argues : ‘ [ b ] oth economists and the ‘ fairness-minded ’ will prefer … a market characterised by informed transactions with sharp price shifts when the information changes , rather than one characterised by many uninformed transactions . ’ |
| 14 | It was , as it were , a survey designed not to find a problem , rather than one to check on the most vulnerable forests . |
| 15 | The use of new materials and new geometric shapes , shorn of ‘ redundant ’ decoration , implied a lean , fit , up-to-date industry , rather than one revelling in a pre-war Victorian complacency . |
| 16 | A any photocopying that needs to be done in great bulk , erm get quotes , and let the company pay for it rather than you paying for it and then pay you back , because I might be able to for instance get an account thingy somewhere |
| 17 | Optical character recognition ( OCR ) systems electronically read typewritten text into a word-processing system rather than it having to be keyed in manually . |
| 18 | No wonder Luke had suggested he come to her room earlier , rather than she go to his . |
| 19 | That was a dramatic device rather than anything to do with my mother who was a much different person than Elizabeth Reegan , as far as I can remember . |
| 20 | We also worked out in the end a system whereby Brian would react to my jump rather than I react to his throw . |
| 21 | it 's that kind of thing , rather than I suppose to the theatre way , you know , you , you react much more spontaneously , so I thought that was an interesting thing that thing |
| 22 | Would it prudent for me to consider both sets of minutes rather than us get into difficulty ? |
| 23 | It means that the communication might be less opportunistic and more frequent with the targets selective rather than whomever happens to be in the group . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the right and left are necessarily the same , but rather that they converge at key points and share an understanding of what is involved in the politics of ‘ race ’ . |
| 25 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 26 | The problem is not so much whether you can or ca n't but rather whether you want to . |
| 27 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 28 | You have your own life before you ( rather as you said to me , Therese ) and you must make it for yourself . |
| 29 | The Lepismatidae have acquired an additional anterior articulation which , with other changes , enables the mandible to move by adduction and abduction in the transverse plane rather as it does in most mandibulate Pterygotes . |