Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 2 | Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists . |
| 3 | She should be blessing her young sister rather than cursing her , she thought wryly . |
| 4 | Using Dement 's analogy , rather than taking their sleep in one meal , subjects may achieve enough to keep going by snatching " snacks " . |
| 5 | Try simple tack repairs yourself rather than taking them to a saddler . |
| 6 | They bark and jump around excitedly , becoming particularly frenetic if you stop somewhere else , rather than taking them immediately for a walk . |
| 7 | Art helps us to break out of this prison-house by subverting conventional sign-systems and forcing us to focus our attention on signs themselves rather than taking them for granted . |
| 8 | Bowes Museum is an art museum not a theme park , exercising children 's eyes and minds — their curiosity , powers of observation and fledgling intelligence — rather than taking them on a rollercoaster ride . |
| 9 | For some it will be too late to fully recover more creative ways of asking the world to help them find what they need , rather than taking it brutally by theft , rape , or murder . |
| 10 | When faced with a request for a garden seat , similar to the one on a recent DIY front cover , I searched high and low for one which I could buy , rather than make myself . |
| 11 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 12 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |
| 13 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 14 | But we usually work it into the show format somewhere , rather than make it a part of the news . |
| 15 | And rather than make it into a viable erm , organization . |
| 16 | Untypically for his age , Chris preferred to play most of his shots to the off rather than drag everything round to leg . |
| 17 | She would make the disaster serve her rather than drag her under . |
| 18 | ‘ So , rather than drag her all the way back here for just five minutes or so , I thought we 'd go there . |
| 19 | Quinn 's expert manager will be one who recognizes that he has to guide the organization rather than lead it too definitively . |
| 20 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 21 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 22 | The religious or mystical order clearly supports the secular establishment , rather than opposing it as in some of the spirit possession cults we reviewed in the previous chapter . |
| 23 | Similarly , in an effort to reach an accommodation with women trade unionists , the NUSEC rejected the traditional nineteenth-century feminist opposition to protective legislation , pledging to work for the extension of such legislation to men rather than opposing it for women . |
| 24 | In discussing the " Wagnerian " aspect of the book , we should in any case remember that during the later part of 1871 Nietzsche actually reduced the extend of Wagner 's presence in it , rather than increased it . |
| 25 | Now they send a child rather than face us . ’ |
| 26 | But you 'd die rather than face it again . ’ |
| 27 | I decided it was best to avoid trouble , rather than face it when it comes . |
| 28 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 29 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 30 | Where educational broadcasts are used , in the majority of cases it will be better to record a programme , rather than watch it live , not just for the convenience of the school timetable , but because video , as opposed to a live broadcast , is a more versatile educational tool . |