Example sentences of "be rather than " in BNC.
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| 1 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 2 | Why ca n't people accept things for what they are rather than going all out to destroy the things they do n't agree with ? |
| 3 | The belief is unjustified because nothing that you can point to suggests that you are rather than are not a brain in a vat . |
| 4 | It also emphasizes the importance of readings in which fictional texts are recognized for what they are rather than being treated as truth claims or pronouncements about the world . |
| 5 | So in other words is our F T E consistent with where we actually are rather than where we thought we 'd be erm or have we got erm you know er the Parkinson 's law , been operating with the , the overtime , people are used to doing it and therefore they keep doing it and so on . |
| 6 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 7 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 8 | But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie . |
| 9 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 10 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 11 | So many attempts by Christians to communicate the gospel begin where we would like people to be rather than where they are actually at . |
| 12 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 13 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 14 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
| 15 | for me and I think it might be rather than just record an apology for her absence , I think we should just put in something , just to say that we 're that we are very sad |
| 16 | Quite apart from the limitations on law reform in general which such an argument would appear to justify , if the views of the public are of any significance at all in this context , then it must be its view of what the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 17 | Love was something other , to be cultivated in an intense yet innocent fashion , to inspire deeds of gallantry and to transform the knight into a thinking , feeling being rather than one who picked up his sword without any forethought . |
| 18 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 19 | Thus the Metropolitan Commissioner 's testimony to a brand of tyre as a major contribution to road safety carries weight because of who he is rather than what he looks like . |
| 20 | The basic theory is rather than with increasing variation in boat shapes and canoeing activity we can no longer use one single approved style of paddling . |
| 21 | Learning is therefore seen in terms of where the child is rather than where we hope he might be . |
| 22 | At home rewards are ‘ ascriptive ’ , depending on who one is rather than on what one does . |
| 23 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 24 | So what you need to do is rather than have a big block of writing okay which is going to look not really in the format of this kind of newspaper is it ? what you tend to get in the tabloids is loads of these little ones . |
| 25 | Someone paid them good money , a lot of money , to do that — this so-called ‘ friend ’ they mentioned — so if I were you I 'd be trying to work out who he is rather than getting on my soapbox . |
| 26 | How do women with a consciousness of their place in the class system and trade union movement become aware that unions are male-dominated and have inbuilt tendencies to support men 's rather than women 's interests ? |
| 27 | Both the idea that it is desirable for adult children to live with parents , and the custom that it is most desirable for this arrangement to be with the husband 's rather than the wife 's parents , contrast with ideas commonly held in Britain about desirable relationships between parents and children in adult life . |
| 28 | However , since these latter categories were derived from lay ‘ common-sense ’ belief 's rather than the scientific rigour they advocated so much ( see Wolfgang , 1960 ; and Garland , 1985a ) , their specific reformative recommendations tended not to amount to very much either . |
| 29 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 30 | ‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’ |