Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] they to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try simple tack repairs yourself rather than taking them to a saddler . |
| 2 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 3 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 4 | Rather than refer them to other people , I find myself , as I am sure my colleagues do too , making the basic applications for citizens who come to me in order to save them time , effort and money . |
| 5 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 6 | Enhancements to Gemstone include improved cache functions , which enable temporary objects to be held in memory rather than writing them to disk ; disk clustering , and reduced object identification size . |
| 7 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 8 | Although controversial , and greatly disliked by the judiciary , this is clearly intended to divert petty persistent offenders away from custody by ruling out custodial penalties for such offenders altogether rather than allowing them to ‘ progress up the tariff ’ . |
| 9 | Most mothers , if forced to leave home for a few days , would entrust their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father . |
| 10 | But there can be little or no dispute about the appalling state of agriculture as a result of forced collectivisation and the fact that millions of farm animals were slaughtered by the peasants rather than allow them to be collectivised , nor can the starvation and deaths be disputed . |
| 11 | The DoE Policy Note states that it is the aim ‘ to steer holiday caravan development to a limited number of areas , usually those in which caravans are already established , rather than allow them to be scattered more widely ’ . |
| 12 | Companies can meet these needs by internal financing-maintaining a liquidity cushion and/or retaining profits rather than distributing them to shareholders . |
| 13 | In formulating the plan " it is important to recognise the benefits of developing packages of services appropriate to the assessed needs of individual children and their families , rather than directing them to existing services which may not be appropriate " ( para 2.11 ) . |
| 14 | If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system . |
| 15 | During his next sermon he said he would leave Kidderminster rather than cause them to be guilty of his murder . |