Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 2 | The GOTO statement makes BBCBASIC(Z80) jump to a specified line number rather than continuing with the next statement in the program . |
| 3 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 4 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 5 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 6 | Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha |
| 7 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |