Example sentences of "[adj] rather than [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are good reasons why I prefer to purse-net whenever possible rather than kill the bolting rabbits with a shotgun . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's better to triumph in as many races as possible rather than winning the World Cup with a series of good placings , ’ said the Italian , who has 28 career wins . |
| 3 | It seems police failure to raise a national alarm may have fooled Stewart into lying low rather than making a run for it . |
| 4 | The purchaser may elect to claim damages for misrepresentation ( whether innocent , negligent or fraudulent ) and complete rather than rescind the sale . |
| 5 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 6 | The effects of such tonics are transient ; they add energy from the outside rather than help the body to make its own . |
| 7 | This inclination to celebrate the established rather than unearth the unknown is also echoed by many of the specialist titles . |
| 8 | Most people sit tight rather than lose a slice of what they see as their rightful ‘ profit ’ . |
| 9 | The male/female distinction is not an important structural principle in Semai society : the sexual division of labour is clear , but not rigid ; there are no counterparts to the Mehinaku bachelor described by Gregor ( 1985 ) who goes hungry and cold rather than undertake the women 's tasks of preparing manioc and hauling firewood ; to a Semai , such behaviour would simply be absurd . |
| 10 | The Erembald family , of which the chancellor of St Donatian 's and the castellan of Bruges were members in 1127 , was alleged by its opponents to be of servile origin ; that its members chose to murder Charles the Good rather than dispute the allegation suggests its truth . |
| 11 | Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) . |
| 12 | Local campaigners fear many pupils will play truant rather than face the taunts of classmates about their ragged clothes . |
| 13 | Pilots had little faith in the system and kept their heads and height down , preferring to risk prosecution by the CAA for low-flying rather than run the risk of killing themselves and another crew . |
| 14 | ( Domiciliary ) services appear to be provided where no family is available rather than to assist a family in their support . |
| 15 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |
| 16 | The proceedings featured acrimonious debate , but the congress ended with the endorsement of a reformist manifesto , albeit affirming that the party would remain Marxist rather than go the social democratic way of other former ruling East European communist parties as they prepared , like the BCP , to compete in free elections . |