Example sentences of "but [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But rather than address these basic problems , politicians look for the quick ‘ fix ’ — anything that sounds good in a sound-bite will do . |
| 2 | But rather than hit back , he listened to his father , Lord Havers . |
| 3 | Civil war hampers their efforts but rather than cease their work of ‘ renewing the earth ’ they often labour at night to avoid the constant threat of bombings from the air . |
| 4 | Mungo wanted to ask about the dead girl , but rather than risk another deep frost , he said : |
| 5 | It is excellent however you use it , but rather than fiddling with small mince pies , my great aunts from Norfolk Island made huge double-crusted pies , the pineapple layered between home-made mince meat , rich with rum and spices . |
| 6 | But rather than focussing on ending the bad relationship I would try to encourage the child to develop other friendships . ’ |
| 7 | But rather than undertaking such an analysis it will be enough to demonstrate that this control procedure is in principle inadequate for our present needs . |
| 8 | Meetings between the two monarchs were arranged , but rather than bringing peace to the two countries , fresh hostilities broke out . |
| 9 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 10 | This practically ruined him but rather than take the easy way out and declare himself bankrupt , he called a meeting of his creditors and asked for time to pay . |
| 11 | But Rather than alarm |
| 12 | But Rather than alarm you Oh |
| 13 | The local branches of the Green Party , CPRE and FoE , and the newly-formed Glaven Valley Protection Group , all oppose a bypass ; but rather than adopting a negative NIMBY position they propose improvements to the existing road , which they believe would deal effectively with the hazards . |
| 14 | Quite a few young men paid her attention and wanted to court her , but rather than be out ‘ winching ’ ( courting ) she preferred the company of mother and the family . |
| 15 | But rather than saying , ‘ Sorry mate , you 'll have to wait for it to be repaired , ’ Doug said , ‘ Take that one over there ! ’ pointing to an equivalent amp . |
| 16 | THE holiday ads are tempting you away with the usual images of fun and sun but rather than taking a package why not invest in that longed-for overseas home ? |
| 17 | But rather than fade quietly from view , Colin Angus has racked up a hit album , ‘ Boss Drum ’ , hit singles and , with ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ , orchestrated a good old-fashioned tabloid fuss into the bargain . |
| 18 | But rather than offer more praise , we would like to offer something else . |
| 19 | But rather than simply treading water , the big man has put his stock in the new material — which is more relevant than nostalgic . |
| 20 | But rather than focus on entartete Kunst per se , the curators emphasise new areas , chief among which is literature , the library 's obvious strength . |
| 21 | But rather than simply using this for the purpose of political comment in a static model of the communication process , the rationale behind its retention here is that there are real and important differences between these two groups and their relationships , and work , with the media . |
| 22 | But rather than cancel the station , it sent NASA off to redesign it . |
| 23 | Mead says that its mainframe was running at maximum capacity , but rather than upgrade , it searched for an alternative due to the rising costs of proprietary mainframe technology . |
| 24 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 25 | This was the aporia detected by Merleau-Ponty : but rather than question Marxism 's truth , Sartre sought to remove its indetermination . |
| 26 | But rather than admit that the family is secondary to the pursuit of autonomy , creativity and growth , the company is blamed . |
| 27 | Sir Harold left his collection to the Corporation of the City of London , but rather than include them in the Guildhall Art Gallery , he left instructions that , due to the fact that he believed his pictures looked best in domestic surroundings , the pictures be installed in the Lord Mayor 's residence , where , unfortunately , they will mostly be inaccessible to the public . |
| 28 | The years in Italy were followed by a couple of years in France , where his father was in charge of the BTA 's Paris office , but rather than go to school in France , Patrick was sent to Dulwich College . |
| 29 | But rather than seeing Gloucester as a weak independent power eclipsed by a strong court connection , one should probably , as in East Anglia , think of him as part of that connection . |
| 30 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |