Example sentences of "[vb past] rather [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he knew from experience it was often best with Blanche simply to answer a question she asked rather than seek to question why she posed it . |
| 2 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 3 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 4 | And although the sex was something I endured rather than enjoyed , it was a learning experience . |
| 5 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 6 | The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple . |
| 7 | Even Lou 's piranha snapping now began to seem like something read rather than experienced . |
| 8 | For all its professionalism , impeccable timing and diction , it glowed rather than crackled , more especially during the central act . |
| 9 | Surprisingly , it helped rather than threatened his self-control . |
| 10 | But the best public art ( as Venice proves ) is architectural art , the enrichment of buildings at which the Victorians excelled rather than extraneous pieces of sculpture and other items dotted around the streets . |
| 11 | Will he commission a report to consider in detail and with expertise the fluctuations to which he referred rather than , as he has , jumping to his own conclusions about why such fluctuations should exist ? |
| 12 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 13 | But the road that ran from the town , called Théovard , by-passed Les Glycines five hundred yards to the north , and we dismounted rather than run the motor cycle over the pitted lane . |
| 14 | But I just fled rather than talk to her . |
| 15 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , out of 76 district planning authorities responding to the survey mentioned earlier , 30 of them granted planning permission for potential odour emitting uses subject to a condition relating to odour emission , being of the opinion that the imposition of conditions , including those relating to odour emission , were relevant to securing reasonable and proper planning objectives which complemented rather than conflicted with the responsibilities of the Director of Environmental Health in his dealing with public health matters under the public health legislation . |
| 17 | The person who no longer believes will blame what he believed rather than the way he believed , and the rationalization this involves means that the chances of his reconsidering belief in the future are greatly diminished . |
| 18 | When people of the late 1970s and 1980s remembered those heady times it was the ludicrous lack of realism that they recalled rather than the idealism — ‘ hippie ’ had become simply a term of abuse . |
| 19 | These effective treatments , along with his rejection of blood-letting , purging and polypharmacy which weakened rather than helped the patient , gave homoeopathy the edge over orthodox therapy for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | To sailors starved of fresh produce it was the food value of this pea which attracted rather than its ornamental merit . |
| 21 | That was again demonstrated in 1942 , as Germany 's fortunes in the war deteriorated still further , despite some success in specific military operations , and the prospects of an early end to the war receded rather than improved . |
| 22 | It was there as confirmation of the course he sailed rather than as an ever-present guide , as were the slowly changing figures on the Loran 's small screen on the bulkhead beside the companionway . |
| 23 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 24 | But countries attempting to control their inflation rates through the pursuit of independent monetary policies discovered that exchange flexibility hindered rather than facilitated their attempts to effect lasting reductions in inflation . |
| 25 | Moreover , the Stewart kings ' lamentable habit of dying young had two consequences , both of which enhanced rather than diminished the strength and prestige of Scottish kingship . |
| 26 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 27 | He lengthened rather than quickened his pace — difficult to detect from behind — stepped into the alley and sprinted as hard as he could . |
| 28 | He sighed rather when he opened Dora 's Dolls ' House . |
| 29 | slamming the car door she trotted rather than walked — towards the flat-roofed building dominating the quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 30 | Have less hard cheese ; use it grated rather than having slabs of it . |