Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately rather than staying in the main house , she was able to stay with her sister Jane and husband Robert who , as he was a member of the royal Household , enjoyed a grace and favour cottage on the estate . |
| 2 | President Jesse Jackson 's reforming US administration offered encouragement rather than sending in the marines . |
| 3 | Rather than looking in a magazine and buying something that that erm |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman should perhaps concentrate on feeding his sheep rather than intervene in the debate at this stage . |
| 5 | To treat it separately would be to risk giving rise to the misconception that it should be separately timetabled , taught and assessed , rather than integrated in the speaking , listening , reading and writing activities of any English lesson . |
| 6 | And those who take part in groups have to show a parallel commitment to working within the spirit of the process ; putting as much energy into listening as in talking , staying on task , collaborating rather than competing in the pursuit of common objectives . |
| 7 | ‘ So why are you not over ‘ tere , bein' some kind of movie star , rather than sittin' in a pub in Santry , in the middle of autumn ta ’ feels like winter ? ’ |
| 8 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 9 | The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple . |
| 10 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 11 | Some people engaging in the issue of disability representation have tried to affect the taste of non-disabled audiences and supporters , rather than engage in a political creativity within and about the disability struggle . |
| 12 | Further , rather than engage in an extended search for the maximising solution , they follow a truncated search process , accepting a solution which produces a merely satisfactory outcome . |
| 13 | This disingenuous acceptance of the status quo , pregnant with career opportunities , is basic to those who feed on the effects of social problems rather than engage in the struggle to deal with causes . |
| 14 | Nor was there a satisfactory body of analysis on matters of this kind : too many of the scholars concerned had preferred to write works that were ‘ reminiscent at times of complimentary toasts ’ rather than engage in the difficult task of examining the complex nature of nationality relations in real life . |
| 15 | When a norm is internalized , it is part of a person , automatically expressed in behaviour , rather than regarded in a more detached way as a rule external to the self . |
| 16 | The oppression of Black communities which justifies policy intervention but barely touches on policy implementation may be mirrored rather than challenged in the nebulous realm of academic research . |
| 17 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 18 | The plot is concluded by a deception which we see leading to a misdeed , although that misdeed is only anticipated in the speech of all three dramatis personae at the end rather than enacted in the text . |
| 19 | Ships are now built in modules rather than built in a whole from the base up in a dry dock , ’ he said . |
| 20 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 21 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 22 | They could not understand a man who chose privacy rather than the comfort of comradeship and shared pleasures ; who read books on mathematics and astronomy rather than drink in the mess with his fellow-officers . |
| 23 | They keep fewer beef cattle and many of these are stall-fed rather than grazing in the fields . |
| 24 | Rather than investing in a filter , it may be better to use bottled water if you are just avoiding tap-water for a few weeks . |
| 25 | Rather than stay in a stuffy room we decided to carry on with our lessons out of sight of the road in the back garden , which was more distracting but more pleasant . |
| 26 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 27 | Valium use , furthermore , focuses on individual malfunctioning : social and economic problems are dealt with in a framework of a medical model of relief of individual distress , alleviating symptoms rather than operating in a social context which may require familial or wider social change . |
| 28 | The situation is such that it is care by the community rather than care in the community . |
| 29 | If someone has special talents or interests , ask them to run sessions for other residents rather than getting in an outsider . |
| 30 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |