Example sentences of "[adv] rather [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 2 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 3 | We have to view a stimulus for a finite time before it generates a perception , but that perception appears to us to occur instantaneously rather than fading into view like the Cheshire cat . ) |
| 4 | The driver is that , even though I am suffering , it adds merit to what I do — i.e. I will stand rather than sit , I will struggle through alone rather than ask for help . |
| 5 | By its nature , metaphysics almost never provides us with certainties ; so rather than bother with it , most people ’ believe ’ what to them seems most plausible . |
| 6 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 7 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 8 | If a horse shies , he is fundamentally ignoring the rider 's inside leg , so rather than worrying about the horse shying , it is more important to concentrate on exercises which make the horse move away from the leg such as leg-yield , shoulder-in , enlarging and decreasing the circle . |
| 9 | A structure and meaning to the day has to be found from inside rather than imposed from outside . |
| 10 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 11 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 12 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 13 | Caught between the preaching of the Roman catholic clergy and appeals from protestants and liberal Roman catholics — including Dr FitzGerald — not to constitutionalize the issue , it would appear that many voters simply stayed away rather than vote against the proposal . |
| 14 | War may not be an overall preference ( Lenin was particularly fond of Clausewitz 's remark that the aggressor would prefer to walk in and occupy a foreign territory peacefully rather than fight for it ) ; but if it is the most effective way of achieving an aim , it is necessary to pursue it . |
| 15 | A full house survey , where you brief your building surveyor individually rather than relying on the shorter though cheaper housebuyer 's report , can be an expensive matter . |
| 16 | Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance . |
| 17 | On the rare occasions when people criticize you ( see Criticism on page 44 ) and offer you explicit feedback about your behaviour , accept it gratefully rather than springing to your own defence . |
| 18 | You need to select flat water conditions with no more than a Force 3 otherwise you will be concentrating too hard on staying upright rather than thinking about the exercises . |
| 19 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 20 | The hearing was told Miss Dixon was bound by a grievance procedure at the home which meant she must raise matters of concern internally rather than go to an outside body . |
| 21 | In these models the economy is assumed to be adjusting continuously rather than moving in discrete jumps at intervals ( annual or quarterly ) corresponding to the available data . |
| 22 | Fortunately rather than staying in the main house , she was able to stay with her sister Jane and husband Robert who , as he was a member of the royal Household , enjoyed a grace and favour cottage on the estate . |
| 23 | He used it sometimes rather than go into the factory at Newbury . |
| 24 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 25 | An Olympic movement looking ahead rather than reflecting on it 's noble past was how one I O C Committee member described Atlanta 's win over Athens , Bobby Charlton part of Manchester 's bid was n't so sure . |
| 26 | Franchising is growing fast — and an increasing number of companies are expected to franchise their operations in the years ahead rather than expand in traditional ways . |
| 27 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |