Example sentences of "rather [conj] have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nan continued , ‘ I wanted it to be clear from the start rather than having to ask every week . ’ |
| 2 | From 1988 , candidates will be able to take CGLI examinations on a modular basis , building up credits rather than having to sit the examination for the full certificate at one time . |
| 3 | Rather than having made a fortune in tips tonight , she had actually come up ten dollars short . |
| 4 | However , one aspect I did like is the way you can select merge codes from menu choices rather than having to remember the correct syntax yourself . |
| 5 | Equally , it may be socially desirable to enforce partial abatement of the fixed charge element for small users of electricity or gas rather than having to identify a more specific form of assistance . |
| 6 | Users specify their needs rather than having to construct the procedures to retrieve the required data . |
| 7 | Premises are often located near people 's homes and workplaces — customers just ‘ pop in ’ , rather than having to make a special journey |
| 8 | The product could prove a boon to existing SNA users who will be able to incorporate other protocols within their existing SNA networks rather than having to build a separate bridge-router-based backbone . |
| 9 | Rather than having to remove the children from them , to have more resources at our disposal , to either help erm parents to develop better parenting skills , or erm I mean , because a lot of the problems again are from poverty , a lot of the pressures are from poverty . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 12 | Moral : never start a big warren system other than at the beginning of the day 's work , since you need to complete it if at all possible rather than have to extend the work into another day . |
| 13 | When in 1769 at a ball in St James 's palace the French ambassador in London , the comte du Châtelet-Lomont , risked provoking a diplomatic incident by pushing forward to assert precedence over his Russian colleague , Count Chernyshev , he was felt by most contemporaries to have been rude and indiscreet rather than to have shown a proper concern for the honour of Louis XV . |