Example sentences of "than [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than presume that a motorway is required , will my hon. Friend the Minister acknowledge that there is at least one other option — to leave things as they are ? |
| 2 | ‘ Newspapers have promoted a witch hunt rather than reassure a worried public , ’ it says . |
| 3 | PLAN will be supporting the government 's policy to integrate these children into existing family units rather than absorb them into separate institutions . ’ |
| 4 | Thus the Lucas workers proposed a range of " telecheric devices " which would react to human intelligence rather than absorb it . |
| 5 | With a fight the frames were changed to white and yellow which reflects the heat rather than absorb it . |
| 6 | People often prefer to rationalize after the event and convince themselves things went well and ‘ according to plan ’ , rather than compare what was actually achieved against the objective . |
| 7 | Use tends to be higher in UK polytechnics , where the emphasis is on teaching rather than research ( see Castens ) . |
| 8 | The controversy is more pronounced in university libraries than in the UK polytechnics , where the emphasis is upon teaching rather than research , and where there are few special collections of the kind to be found in universities . |
| 9 | However , perhaps most critical of all in the early stages is social science practice rather than research . |
| 10 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 11 | However , most of the research on families is based on clinical samples of families with problems rather than research on ‘ normal ’ families . |
| 12 | For rather than research coming up with unequivocal findings which can then influence and be integrated in a professional and neutral way into policy and practice I will try to demonstrate how political interests and values , in all their guises , influence and pervade the relationship in a variety of ways . |
| 13 | In short , if we are concerned about higher education , it is to higher education that we must turn , rather than research . |
| 14 | Both were essentially seminaries — a majority of undergraduates went into the church in the first half of the century- and finishing schools , where teaching rather than research was the norm . |
| 15 | Even in cases where industry has not neglected an invention , the major part of the time is consumed in development rather than research . |
| 16 | Legislation was not brought in until 1923 , however , largely because any attempt at reform was regarded as an attack on the sanctity of marriage , despite the Royal Commission 's argument ( repeated by all later proponents of divorce law reform ) that relaxation would in fact strengthen rather than weaken it . |
| 17 | There is still a good chance to undertake positive action which will strengthen the countryside agencies rather than weaken , which the present proposals look to do . |
| 18 | Many companies would go bankrupt and others would prosper unfairly by raising prices rather than output . |
| 19 | But when governments expand aggregate demand in an attempt to secure the employment objective , there is a danger that the extra spending will increase prices rather than output . |
| 20 | They were less successful " where it was a question of altering the distributional restraints on their phonology ( the ( r ) -variables " — in this case , /r/-dropping rather than /r/-insertion , as required of British English speakers acquiring a North American accent . |
| 21 | To gain the maximum benefit from each interview ( if you are aiming to learn a proper selection technique rather than treat each interview selection as a one-off event ) you should do a thorough follow-up . |
| 22 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 23 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 24 | Bitrex is the bitterest non-toxic substance known , and even a tiny drop will encourage children to spit it out rather than swallow it . |
| 25 | 35b ) and in two pavements from Verulamium ( nos. 9 and 15 ) where the central panel is emphasized in relation to the square border of a mosaic , thus setting-off the pavement and the figured design by balance rather than contrast . |
| 26 | Basically they are titbits and are designed to excite the appetite rather than assuage it . |
| 27 | This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket . |
| 28 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your guilt you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your guilt feelings and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 29 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inadequacy , you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your feelings of inadequacy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 30 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inhibition you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your inhibition and examine them for possible replacements . |