Example sentences of "[vb -s] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BEAUTIFUL , flexible sounds , delicately turned phrases , and the sort of energy which skips rather than strides — the King 's Consort at the Queen 's Hall reminded us that civilisation is not entirely destroyed . |
| 2 | The problem was that the premises of his own theory required the answer to this question to remain always in abeyance , while his text enacts rather than resolves the equivocality of the choice which it sets up . |
| 3 | Conversely , where the tenant is likely to give discounts to certain customers ( eg those who pay by credit card , or employees ) , or where he is likely to have sales or special offers , his advisers should attempt to ensure that it is the amount he receives rather than the full retail price which is to be included in the calculation of turnover . |
| 4 | Some years ago , W. G. Hoskins argued that the Domesday Book entries for Devon referred to hamlets and farmsteads rather than villages , and that any particular vill comprised a whole series of villein farms . |
| 5 | The realisation that the transition from exclusion to inclusion is a slow manoeuvre and that community care evolves rather than happens became clear soon after Elizabeth and Helen arrived at their new home . |
| 6 | The overall aim is to ensure that the welfare state encourages rather than penalizes personal initiative . |
| 7 | The European Council approved a growth initiative , with new lending by the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) for infrastructure projects and the creation of a new European Investment Fund , which would direct money towards loan guarantees rather than loans . |
| 8 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 9 | On high quality developments , therefore , it is sometimes advantageous to leave the roads in private ownership to provide a rural feel , with grass verges rather than kerbs . |
| 10 | the use of silences and pauses rather than fillers and ‘ non-words ’ such as ‘ OK ’ , ‘ Right ’ , ‘ You know ’ |
| 11 | Use silences and pauses rather than fillers and non-words . |
| 12 | Instigate a comprehensive review of UK defence policy which will be dictated by a rigorous analysis of defence needs rather than by fixed monetary targets . |
| 13 | By responding to your own learning needs rather than being expected to absorb blanket information as a group , you will be able to chart your own progress more accurately , develop and extend your interests and expertise , and research new materials as and when you feel the need . |
| 14 | The company is not turning away existing customers ; it is trying to reassess business on the basis of customer needs rather than product lines . |
| 15 | I 'm not sure I still think it would come out in the section about training needs rather than necessarily . |
| 16 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 17 | This feature is probably best described in terms of the effect that it has rather than how that effect is produced in technical terms . |
| 18 | In China , criticism of the bureaucracy has generally not been through formal representative assemblies , councils and congresses but through ‘ mass campaigns ’ , though the direction of influence has tended to be from the party leadership to the masses through propaganda , political education and mobilization exercises rather than from the masses upwards . |
| 19 | For example , the insistence of planning authorities upon the use of certain building materials , the standards of design and external finish and the density of housing development reflect their traditional concern with how a house or a village looks rather than who will actually live in it . |
| 20 | Accordingly having at the outset elected to proceed on the substantive robbery counts rather than the conspiracy count they applied to re-elect , add a new count alleging conspiracy to rob against Findlay alone , and proceed no further on the substantive counts against him . |
| 21 | If there is a clear break between one attack and another , the prosecutor would be wise to include two affray counts rather than one . |
| 22 | To get money you 've got to present an image of disability that reinforces rather than changes the stereotype — flaxen-haired moppets in callipers . |
| 23 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 24 | I wo n't undermine your ego but it 's perhaps the chair that she wants rather than you |
| 25 | Fastenings are made as simple as possible : ladies might use an all-in-one slip-over brassiè , or one with front fastening ; shoes might have velcro or elastic laces rather than normal laces ; shirts would use velcro strips rather than buttons ; men 's trousers would have a zip fly rather than buttons , with a velcro fastening at the top ; braces are easier to manage than a belt to hold trousers up ; a lady 's skirt might have an elasticated waist or a velcro fastening . |
| 26 | Second , governments need to apply financial instruments to the materials society uses rather than to the wastes it creates . |
| 27 | It is regarded as being more important that the new appointee be familiar with the aims and methods which Highlander endorses rather than necessarily be able to present the best paper qualifications for the advertised job . |
| 28 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 29 | Several similar assays based on thermostable DNA ligases rather than polymerase are also being developed . |
| 30 | For the most part , their radicalism did not lead to crisis , and they appeared as complements rather than alternatives to state procedure : for the most part men combined ‘ how we have always done things ’ with ‘ how we are constrained to do things ’ . |