Example sentences of "rather [conj] [adj] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while the health , agricultural and voluntary work committees remained social rather than political in their programmes , they blazed a trail that others widened into a national highway . |
| 2 | The way of life of the Dalmatian peasants and fisherfolk , and of the citizens of the former Venetian colonies of Split , Šibenik and Zadar has for centuries resembled that of the Italians on the western shore of the Adriatic rather than that of their Slav cousins who inhabit the Balkan interior . |
| 3 | They are locked into a broader pattern of support which spans the three generations of parents and children , rather than existing on their own terms . |
| 4 | Concretely , modern families are nuclear , consisting only of parents and children , and conjugal , emphasizing the relationship between husband and wife rather than either of their relationships with their own families of origin . |
| 5 | This , he claimed , meant that they sometimes had to act more rather than less on their own initiative . |