Example sentences of "[v-ing] rather [conj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their chief interest was in walking rather than in birds , so we compromised with a day that started near Svartifoss , a waterfall that tumbles between black basalt columns . |
| 2 | Wills III , despite his position in business and his status as Chancellor of the University , preferred to go to his office at night after his staff had gone home , and to give instructions in writing rather than by word of mouth . |
| 3 | If they succeed without merit , the fault would appear to lie with the way the appeal system is operating rather than in regulation 72 as it is currently worded . ’ |
| 4 | They are written in terms of what the student is able to demonstrate as a result of learning rather than in terms of what a student will have to do to achieve the competences . |
| 5 | currently used in the A one four four south of the town means stopping rather than through trips . |
| 6 | Classroom activities will tend to be those focusing attention on deciphering rather than on interpretation by indexical inference . |
| 7 | They thought it unsatisfactory to say that moral qualities are distinguished by sense or feeling rather than by reason . |