Example sentences of "rather [conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differences in opinion can be accentuated by this process so that the parents start to argue with each other rather than dealing jointly with the child . |
| 2 | If there was a brake , this would not happen and the person would have to stop and start all the time rather than moving smoothly around the supermarket . |
| 3 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 4 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 5 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 7 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 8 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 9 | Nursing care should embrace the physical , psychological , social and educational needs of the patient , rather than focusing purely on the break in the skin surface . |
| 10 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 11 | A sociological perspective implies exploring the relationship between what is perceived as ‘ good ’ ( or ‘ healthy ’ ) and ‘ bad ’ ( or ‘ unhealthy ’ ) , rather than focussing exclusively on the latter at the expense of the former . |
| 12 | On the menu bar are Search for finding articles quickly rather than scrolling manually through the word list , View to find photographs , videos , maps and magazine covers and Mark for marking a place in an article and making notes . |
| 13 | And why did the band have to choose that precise moment to play a waltz so that , rather than dancing apart in the modern way , he was drawing her closer , moulding her to the lean , taut length of him ? |
| 14 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 15 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 16 | It is argued that political programmes have to be worked out by actors within the state , rather than emerging automatically from the ‘ needs ’ of the economic system . |
| 17 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |