Example sentences of "rather [conj] [to-vb] " 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 | As he said in a radio broadcast in 1946 , the Criterion in later years " tended to reflect a particular point of view rather than to illustrate a variety of views on that plane . " |
| 3 | It is , however , likely that the audible beat was intermittent rather than constant , and that it functioned mainly to co-ordinate the chorus and dances on stage , rather than to control the solo singers or instrumentalists . |
| 4 | The Poor Law had been designed to prevent rather than to relieve unemployment and relatively few ‘ able-bodied ’ men had ever resorted to it . |
| 5 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 8 | Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion . |
| 9 | Victims were named but the report did not give details of those responsible , its remit being to document repression rather than to carry out a judicial investigation . |
| 10 | The order for discovery is often the point of no return for the plaintiff in a libel action : it is the stage at which some prefer to discontinue rather than to open their files . |
| 11 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It must be stressed at the outset , lest the importance of this form of liability be exaggerated , that the plaintiffs lost their case because the predominant purpose of the embargo was to promote the interests of the union members rather than to injure the plaintiffs , but their Lordships made it clear that if the predominant purpose of a combination is to injure another in his trade or business or in his other legitimate interests then , if damage results , the tort of conspiracy exists . |
| 14 | Universities tend to train academics and research workers to have very detailed knowledge of relatively narrow aspects of agriculture ; their farms are designed for experiment and demonstration rather than to impart practical skills and experience . |
| 15 | Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards . |
| 16 | The point of the lab work was , essentially , to demonstrate the truth of a theory , rather than to allow students to experiment for themselves . |
| 17 | Most people do not realize that Jews can pray together without a rabbi , and that the rabbi 's job is often to clarify a point of law or resolve a dispute , rather than to lead a congregation in prayer . |
| 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 was a conventional menu but one intended , he felt , to please the guests rather than to demonstrate the ingenuity of the cook . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The feeling that the centre only wanted financial and technical control to check every detail of their action , rather than to stimulate responsible management decentralisation , inevitably increased . |
| 22 | Only since the general adoption of the policy of specialisation engendered by the Industrial Revolution has it become common to demolish and rebuild rather than to adapt and extend . |
| 23 | I all conscious that the most important thing is to be encouraging , to stimulate rather than to regulate . |
| 24 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 26 | If , however , we look at the hidden psychological level , we can begin to see that the basic purpose of the transaction was to reject advice rather than to receive it . |
| 27 | A more serious problem is the bias of the sources , which reflect the views of the ruling class rather than those of the rebels and therefore tend to paint a picture of disorder rather than to record the grievances which prompted the revolt . |
| 28 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 29 | The danger is to exaggerate their importance , as it seems clear that their actions tended to give the final blow to communities which were already in decay rather than to destroy those which were flourishing . |
| 30 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |