Example sentences of "rather [conj] [indef pn] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bulking agents are sometimes added to maintain easy pathways for nutrients ( especially oxygen ) to get to microorganisms , rather than everything collapsing into a mass that is not conducive to diffusion . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | He remembered a big elegant room — whose he never learnt — with wide-spaced deep leather chairs that created a literally hid-back atmosphere rather than one hunched over a table . |
| 4 | Sisters and brothers let's continue to work and campaign and together to create a Europe with a future , rather than one locked in the past . |
| 5 | The reputation and prestige on which their position rested , therefore , was an intraparty one rather than one created in the public arena . |
| 6 | It was , as it were , a survey designed not to find a problem , rather than one to check on the most vulnerable forests . |
| 7 | The use of new materials and new geometric shapes , shorn of ‘ redundant ’ decoration , implied a lean , fit , up-to-date industry , rather than one revelling in a pre-war Victorian complacency . |