Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] they [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 2 | Please return them as soon as possible , rather than using them for storage . |
| 3 | Most of these reserves were held in the Eurodollar market , which meant that rather than deposit them in New York the central banks of the oil producers deposited them in banks outside the United States . |
| 4 | Make your own plants , take cuttings or divisions from neighbours ' plants , rather than buying them from nurseries . |
| 5 | Enhancements to Gemstone include improved cache functions , which enable temporary objects to be held in memory rather than writing them to disk ; disk clustering , and reduced object identification size . |
| 6 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 7 | Surely this is the moment when the strong west should be able to offer a hand of assistance to those countries , rather than holding them at arm 's length while it completes its own internal workings . |
| 8 | Prudent homeowners build their houses on continuous foundations rather than rest them on pier blocks from which they can be bucked when the big shake comes . |
| 9 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 10 | Jonathan Burnham describes Power Feminism as ‘ a manifesto for a new generation of women , offering a feminism based on powerful roles for women rather than seeing them as victims ’ . |
| 11 | In order to give people more confidence rather than surrounding them with gloom and doom , we should point out that , since 1979 , GDP has risen 22 per cent . |
| 12 | Ironically , the dismal failure of the labour relations element of the campaign was directly attributable to Ford 's attempts to impose quality circles as a structural remedy for relatively poor productivity and quality , rather than introducing them as mechanisms for mobilizing employee commitment to company goals . |
| 13 | Companies can meet these needs by internal financing-maintaining a liquidity cushion and/or retaining profits rather than distributing them to shareholders . |
| 14 | The worst aspect of Maastricht was its rushed attempt to suppress the effects of the end of the cold war , rather than take them on board . |
| 15 | If you were prone to feeling miserable , for example , the aim is to prevent feelings of misery rather than to swop them for feelings of ecstasy . |
| 16 | Poststructuralism , which in its own way also takes part in that history of Western Marxism , differs only insofar as it foregrounds the implications of the theoretical difficulties involved rather than repressing them in pursuit of the unrealized ideal . |