Example sentences of "[n mass] rather [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manorial rents fell and in order to avoid financial ruin some lords removed the villages and common fields and turned to direct farming , often preferring to farm sheep rather than grow corn which was less profitable . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman should perhaps concentrate on feeding his sheep rather than intervene in the debate at this stage . |
| 3 | At crossroads the gibbets provided plump carrion for the hungry crows and ravens ; landless men turned out of their fields as the great lords changed to tending sheep rather than raising crops . |
| 4 | By now , having experienced the sensation of flying , he felt that his future was in flying the aircraft rather than servicing them on the ground ; in April 1934 he was finally accepted for pilot training . |
| 5 | In fact , since social dialectology is an exploratory science , many important patterns of variation are adequately demonstrated by exploratory statistical techniques , which are designed to reveal patterns in the data rather than test for significance ( Tukey , 1977 ; Diaconis , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | He said ‘ I think I 'm fairly lovable ’ — with a face as cold and unlovable as if he were dissecting a fish rather than trying to reach his fellow human beings . |
| 7 | You 're free to you know the seventy five percent rather than saying I 've got thirty four or something like that . |
| 8 | Of course some of those who are really willing to take 36s. rather than leave the market without selling , will not show at once that they are ready to accept that price . |
| 9 | On these grounds she would have preferred to give all selected schools £4,000 rather than select generally mediocre candidates into two categories . |
| 10 | ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . ) |
| 11 | Farmers , generally speaking , like to grow crops and look after livestock rather than sell — and they prefer privacy ; but if they are to make a success of opening their farm to the public they need to be professional about it . |
| 12 | IBM moved towards sales rather than renting ; it placed greater emphasis on software ; it invested massively in automated factories . |
| 13 | They often prefer to withhold sales rather than accept a lower price because of the consequences for other sales . |
| 14 | If a firm expects to be rationed in the future in the goods market , it is more likely to increase its current sales rather than produce for inventories . |
| 15 | As Fred said with a grin , ‘ We 'll save money by putting you back on the staff rather than pay you free-lance rates ’ . |
| 16 | The company preferred to invest in well trained staff rather than cut overheads to the bone , and many have been 20 years in the trade . |
| 17 | Pain and its Conquest concentrates on perception cognition and emotion , and the ways of manipulating these by verbal and intellectual means rather than concentrating on the more traditional methods of control by cutting , by blocking or the more recent manipulating of existing control systems by chemical or electrical stimulation . |
| 18 | The loans were criticized in both China and Japan and achieved little , but the consolidation of Japanese interests using diplomatic and economic means rather than force was pursued under Foreign Minister Shidehara Kijúró in the years 1924–27 . |
| 19 | Whilst not doubting that the slaves were treated by their conquerors and masters as akin to live-stock rather than like human beings , it strains credulity to say that , in the decades after emancipation in 1865 , the stock somehow remained ‘ pure ’ . |
| 20 | Our plans for local government will bring decision-making closer to the people rather than alienating them by imposing an extra layer of bureaucracy on top of local government . |
| 21 | All the rhetoric about redoubling efforts to fulfil the plan or striding confidently towards the future in imitation of the Great Leader was intended in practice to pacify the people rather than to stimulate them . |
| 22 | Close cooperation between Christian and Muslim leaders is essential for national unity , and both faith groups are challenged to do all they can to ensure that belief in one creation and one God is a force that unites people rather than dividing them . |
| 23 | Close cooperation between Christian and Muslim leaders is essential for national unity , and both faith groups are challenged to do all they can to ensure that belief in one creation and one God is a force that unites people rather than dividing them . |
| 24 | Until recently the arts have placed too much emphasis on educating non-disabled people rather than providing a medium for communication with each other . |
| 25 | Western intensive farming methods have brought untold problems to developing countries that should be growing crops of millet , sorghum and vegetables to feed their own people rather than exporting cotton , rice and maize to the Western world . |
| 26 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 27 | There are many other characteristics of bad organizations , ones in fact which are designed to switch off their people rather than to switch them on . |
| 28 | These homes were like an unsavoury silo , places to store people rather than house them . |
| 29 | The solutions focused upon changing young people rather than changing the situation they were in . |
| 30 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |