Example sentences of "rather [conj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 2 | To reassemble the joint , use a non-setting mastic rather than putty and apply it liberally to the socket . |
| 3 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 4 | Many think , like Stanley and Wise ( 1983 ) , that women should be doing feminism , rather than learning or theorizing it . |
| 5 | It was his parents rather than John that helped them financially . |
| 6 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |