Example sentences of "[vb base] rather [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 2 | So how do you just I mean rather than do it in your head , especially in an exam , just what you 're going to do , put the Add X to both sides say . |
| 3 | look at and browse and take the information that they want rather than putting what sounds to me a lot of work on some |
| 4 | Plasmids are often symbionts rather than parasites : that is , they benefit rather than injure their hosts , for example by carrying with them properties such as drug resistance which may be of value to the host cell . |
| 5 | ‘ But we are confident in that we respect rather than fear their talents . |
| 6 | Legislation was not brought in until 1923 , however , largely because any attempt at reform was regarded as an attack on the sanctity of marriage , despite the Royal Commission 's argument ( repeated by all later proponents of divorce law reform ) that relaxation would in fact strengthen rather than weaken it . |
| 7 | Good nothing wrong with that , nothing wrong at all , now I think rather than set you something new , it 's better to , try to get another bar . |
| 8 | They train the labour they need rather than import it ( but note the exceptions like the Korean expatriate workers ) and often give these workers the sorts of skills that can usefully be hired by indigenous rivals ( UNCTC , 1988a ) . |
| 9 | With the market 's retrenchment at the end of 1990 , that list evaporated , but Freud was not willing to renegotiate terms and consign rather than sell his pictures to his agent . |