Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bitrex is the bitterest non-toxic substance known , and even a tiny drop will encourage children to spit it out rather than swallow it . |
| 32 | By constantly making the same mistake there is the danger that you are reinforcing and learning how to make the error rather than correcting it . |
| 33 | Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them . |
| 34 | In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them . |
| 35 | Both David and Steve will have objective views rather than tell me what I want to hear . ’ |
| 36 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 37 | That that seems to be the most reasonable way of doing it , rather than sending it registered , |
| 38 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 39 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 40 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 41 | Williamson 's theory of the firm is an attempt , following Coase , to explain the existence and internal structure of firms rather than to take them for granted . |
| 42 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 43 | Please return them as soon as possible , rather than using them for storage . |
| 44 | They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release . |
| 45 | Despite obvious Iranian links with our captors , Britain appeared determined only to exploit the better relationship with Iran for British companies seeking contracts there , rather than using it to secure our release . |
| 46 | She felt rather than saw him gazing round , trying to work out what had happened . |
| 47 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 48 | When I do have to evict an intruder , I 've discovered that it 's far better to pull the weeds out rather than hoe them . |
| 49 | Thus we have the permitting conditions : the lack of parental control which might have brought the youth into more conventional alignments rather than setting him free to explore the more extravagant possibilities of a sporting career . |
| 50 | There was something funny about his tone of voice , almost as if he were asking rather than telling her . |
| 51 | Why , for instance , does Peggy not get satisfaction instead from trying to eradicate the difference between herself and Boris , e.g. by helping him reach the answer himself rather than telling him ? |
| 52 | ‘ I had fallen into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . ’ |
| 53 | I felt so sorry for the horse while he was cutting his teeth that I pussyfooted around , falling into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . |
| 54 | Respect for young readers is often expressed by working with them as distinct from working for them ; asking them rather than telling them . |
| 55 | We 've tried to love both dogs equally , and simply separate them for a cooling-off period after a fight , rather than telling them off in any way . |
| 56 | D S S will actually pay them rather than telling us to pay them . |
| 57 | if it requires a recall of emotion , it is often sufficient merely to switch on the emotion rather than elicit it ( as when you trip over the cat ! ) . |
| 58 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 59 | It is productive to agree these rules with children rather than dictate them . |
| 60 | However , it is also clear that such projections can only inform policymaking rather than dictate it and there remains a need for clear national guidelines on the provision of places at all levels of education . |