Example sentences of "with [art] [noun prp] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the membership of some staunchly pro-ANZUS people ( such as Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Don McKinnon ) , the government as a whole appeared more committed to improving general relations with the USA rather than to seeking a return to the particular relationship which had been embodied within the ANZUS alliance . |
| 2 | Analysts interpreted the vote , however , as indicating that the majority of the electorate tended to support the continuation of the present quasi-colonial " commonwealth " status with the USA rather than the radical options of either full US statehood , promoted by the PNP , or full independence championed by the Independence Party ( PIP ) . |
| 3 | Ford believed , in fact , that putting colleges with the CNAA rather than their local university meant for students that ‘ academically they might as well take the train to London ’ . |
| 4 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 5 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 6 | While Jim Wells was in Castlewellan for the banned parade in June 1985 , he preferred to negotiate with the RUC rather than be arrested like Foster and Graham or , like Smyth , lie down in front of a Landrover . |
| 7 | Mortimer , armed with a Browning rather than a rifle , called out orders to his squad , and directed them to positions around the two-storey customs building . |