Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 2 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 3 | Not only is he generally responsible for the system but he also receives all appeals from refusals of permission , and has the power to call in any application for decision by himself rather than leave it with the district council . |
| 4 | In order to give people more confidence rather than surrounding them with gloom and doom , we should point out that , since 1979 , GDP has risen 22 per cent . |
| 5 | Planning permission will only be given if planners can show it would be cheaper to supply the demand rather than reduce it with energy conservation measures . |
| 6 | And Northumberland had chosen , rather than pursue them with a force then quite inadequate , to gather his and his sons ' levies and wait for the marauders to return . |
| 7 | Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment . |
| 8 | Some poison lions which are troublesome , rather than kill them with a spear . |