Example sentences of "[adj] rather [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their offspring had one each but were tall rather than intermediate in height because the tallness factor is ‘ dominant ’ to the shortness factor . |
| 2 | Eat as much fresh produce as possible rather than relying on tinned , packed and frozen foods . |
| 3 | A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market . |
| 4 | For the investor who decides to buy direct rather than invest via a gilt unit trust , which may have a front end charge of 6 p.c. plus an annual management fee , the cheapest buying route is via the Post Office . |
| 5 | She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean . |
| 6 | He still wore his expression of vacuous merriment , which must have been habitual rather than assumed in my honour . |
| 7 | Bargaining structures within the international context , although extremely heterogeneous rather than conforming to any simple and tidy pattern , may be broadly classified in terms of the level at which negotiations are mainly conducted . |
| 8 | They will want strong churches to reproduce themselves to make this easy rather than working against it , enjoying the fact that it will sometimes mean breaking through the parish boundaries for the greater good of enabling all of the people in all the parishes to hear all the gospel . |
| 9 | A GP , during a seven-minute consultation , may form a provisional hypothesis early on , rather than running through the whole gamut of possible examinations or tests ; the engineer tracing a fault may have a hierarchy of probable causes in his mind and investigate these rather than embark on a text-book linear analysis . |
| 10 | You should be careful how you use them because the audience may read these rather than listen to you . |
| 11 | The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court . |
| 12 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 13 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 14 | Chemical production was stronger than forecast , being flat rather than falling by 1 per cent as predicted . |
| 15 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |
| 16 | The Argive krater is far smaller than the Attic amphora ; and it looks as though Athenian artists preferred to monumentalise vase-painting rather than venture into the new world of free painting . |
| 17 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 18 | His courage and nobility are innate rather than acquired through circumstances ; he is no commoner swept into lofty office but an Elphberg by inheritance . |
| 19 | They keep fewer beef cattle and many of these are stall-fed rather than grazing in the fields . |
| 20 | As Prime Minister he accepted the resignation of his Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958 rather than agree to modest public expenditure cuts . |
| 21 | It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export-led rather than led by domestic consumption . |
| 22 | Weapons such as the Pershing-II , launched from Western Europe , could reach Soviet territory in about ten minutes and were seen as strategic rather than intermediate in character by Soviet negotiators . |
| 23 | I am confident , in all modesty , when I give my talk , that your members are more likely to be informatively amused rather than slumber into oblivion . ’ |
| 24 | He seemed amused rather than offended by Ellen 's defiance . |
| 25 | Already we have seen microspeciation occurring in trees in Trinidad and Tobago ( section 6.2.6 ) , but it has also been suggested that in crossing major faunal boundaries , plant species may undergo so-called ‘ cryptic ’ speciation with major differences in fruit sizes and so on , associated with different dispersers ; i.e. obscured rather than obscure in that herbarium material is rarely preserved with fully ripe fruits and complete field notes . |
| 26 | In it the two front-raised items ( castle , dabble ) appear to be randomly front-raised rather than governed by any systematic rule . |
| 27 | Expertise is diffuse rather than held within the guided hand of the state authority . |