Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] they " 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 | Try simple tack repairs yourself rather than taking them to a saddler . |
| 4 | They bark and jump around excitedly , becoming particularly frenetic if you stop somewhere else , rather than taking them immediately for a walk . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 11 | Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them . |
| 12 | In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Williamson 's theory of the firm is an attempt , following Coase , to explain the existence and internal structure of firms rather than to take them for granted . |
| 15 | Please return them as soon as possible , rather than using them for storage . |
| 16 | When I do have to evict an intruder , I 've discovered that it 's far better to pull the weeds out rather than hoe them . |
| 17 | Respect for young readers is often expressed by working with them as distinct from working for them ; asking them rather than telling them . |
| 18 | We 've tried to love both dogs equally , and simply separate them for a cooling-off period after a fight , rather than telling them off in any way . |
| 19 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 20 | It is productive to agree these rules with children rather than dictate them . |
| 21 | For this purpose some printers can be put into a special mode in which they print the escape sequences rather than interpret them . |
| 22 | In Botswana , government has consistently decided to live with the mining companies , rather than nationalize them or even seek to control them . |
| 23 | ‘ But why should he keep the scissors rather than throw them away ? ’ |
| 24 | Management should effect redundancies at one point in time rather than spreading them over a long period . |
| 25 | So while it is a good idea to move in on all your slow payers as quickly as possible , it is an even better idea to concentrate your efforts on your biggest accounts first rather than spreading them more thinly and less effectively over all your customers . |
| 26 | They flow around events rather than meeting them head-on . |
| 27 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 28 | All the rhetoric about redoubling efforts to fulfil the plan or striding confidently towards the future in imitation of the Great Leader was intended in practice to pacify the people rather than to stimulate them . |
| 29 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 30 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |