Example sentences of "rather [conj] money " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My first priority is to feed my wife and two children , but the German win has given me respite of about 13 months to consider medals rather than money . |
| 2 | In terms of hard cash the 1964 pie would have cost £250,000 but in fact there was never more than £1,000 in the bank , the sponsorship being in the form of services and goods rather than money . |
| 3 | Again , the west often prefers to offer so-called ‘ know-how ’ , rather than money . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ borrows one section from Jimi Hendrix 's ‘ 3rd Stone From The Sun ’ ( Hendrix 's estate asked for an ‘ inspiration ’ credit rather than money , apparently because they 're most keen for people to be directed to his music ) . |
| 5 | To some extent the private ‘ second economy ’ ( accounting for as much as 25 per cent of GNP ) circumvents the formal , official pecking order , but there as well , influence rather than money is what confers wealth . |
| 6 | And that is one of the reasons why , in contemporary Britain , the " fringe benefits " which attach to a job , which are paid in kind rather than money , e.g. the use of a company car , are often of greater concern to the recipient than the precise quantity of the money wage . |
| 7 | This award is for supercomputing time , rather than money ( indirect value around 12,000 Pounds ) |
| 8 | I take it that it was the clear intention of Parliament ( certainly it 's in line with my own inclination ) that the net of secondary education should be cast more widely into the lower income scales ; that class-distinction should be tempered and blurred throughout the educational field , and that merit — whatever that may be — should be the test , rather than money or social background , of a person 's fitness to receive an expensive secondary education . |
| 9 | Sorauf argues that fundamental changes in American society and politics rather than money made candidates and interest groups chief actors in the campaign finance they own turned to money as a result of their enhanced power . |
| 10 | If , however , people believe that it will be a slow rise over time , they will want to buy sterling assets ( such as UK government bonds ) rather than money , since such assets will also earn the holder a rate of interest . |
| 11 | Since prices and populations generally change over time , it is crucially important to compare real output per capita figures rather than money national income figures before coming to any conclusions about changes in economic welfare . |