Example sentences of "it [adv] rather [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 2 | On the rare occasions when people criticize you ( see Criticism on page 44 ) and offer you explicit feedback about your behaviour , accept it gratefully rather than springing to your own defence . |
| 3 | Yeah I think it might be if you could just actually talk through it really rather than asking them to do it . |
| 4 | He used it sometimes rather than go into the factory at Newbury . |
| 5 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |