Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] rather [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to co-operate rather than compete |
| 2 | In all forms of natural therapy , which aim to stimulate rather than to suppress the body 's natural defences , the axiom is : by creating favourable conditions in the whole person , body-mind-spirit , the body will heal itself . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you ever wish you 'd farmed rather than going in for horses ? ’ |
| 4 | I would er agree actually with what I think Mr was a saying on balance , that 's it 's best to go with the bit that you 've got rather than hold that up to , to er to come back to Road later . |
| 5 | Lying on the bed she had dozed rather than slept . |
| 6 | He began to realize , too , what hardship she had suffered rather than ask his family for money . |
| 7 | It was something she had felt rather than known logically . |
| 8 | But even then , she had listened rather than talked back . |
| 9 | There are those who spend their lives courting the unobtainable , pursuing impossible dreams ; and there are the Don Juans and femmes fatales who prefer to travel rather than to arrive , leaving behind them a path strewn with broken hearts . |
| 10 | They may prefer to take action against their minority who refuse to share rather than continuing to fight such innocuous users of the countryside . |
| 11 | But if you can not afford to leave , might it not be better to put up with the treatment that you have received rather than becoming unemployed ? |
| 12 | You encourage them to turn to romance rather than face reality . |
| 13 | They tend to aggravate rather than improve the poor self-esteem , poor individual coping skills and poor emotional maturity in the primary sufferer . |
| 14 | An important feature of such costs is that they tend to increase rather than decrease with sales volume . |
| 15 | Erm if the Liberals wants they want to stop seventy two point six er million but they seem to do rather than go to seventy three point three which is what they want to reach , what they want to look at originally . |
| 16 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 17 | He prefers to borrow rather than raise outside equity capital and thus dilute control . |
| 18 | At the launch of Smith 's campaign , it soon became clear that he intends to encourage rather than to lead the debate about the party 's future . |
| 19 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 20 | Its somewhat sketchy character suggests , in fact , that his main purpose was simply to finish what he had begun rather than to give urgent or forceful expression to his views . |