Example sentences of "rather [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should be blessing her young sister rather than cursing her , she thought wryly . |
| 2 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 3 | The story of Jacob and Rachel illustrates the love of a man for a woman , a love which is human and normal , but based on heavenly values , on giving rather than taking . |
| 4 | Halifax , the largest building society , is preparing to transfer its tapes to the Revenue but points out that — rather than taking advantage of the tax rules — many savers are failing to claim their rights . |
| 5 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 6 | The importance of citizenship lay in the individual ‘ giving ’ to his city , rather than taking from it . |
| 7 | But the Government likes to submit to free market forces and developers attempt to respond , rather than taking into account where new homes should be built in the best interests of the public . |
| 8 | If you are tense try some of the natural relaxant products that are available from health food stores , rather than taking drugs . |
| 9 | Try simple tack repairs yourself rather than taking them to a saddler . |
| 10 | The payoffs for being a victim are simple : it allows us to avoid responsibility for our lives , to wallow in self-pity rather than taking care of ourselves , and to punish others . |
| 11 | To be fair , the same company does publish David Widgery 's remarkable chronicle of a GP 's East End , Some Lives ! : almost unique in that it speaks from within the culture described , rather than taking day-trips to deprivation . |
| 12 | THE holiday ads are tempting you away with the usual images of fun and sun but rather than taking a package why not invest in that longed-for overseas home ? |
| 13 | Driving yourself to the Alps rather than taking the tour operator 's flight has a lot of attractions . |
| 14 | Most companies , including employment agencies , were thinking of laying off rather than taking on staff . |
| 15 | Ideally , such techniques should assist our own instincts and innate strength , rather than taking over from them . |
| 16 | They bark and jump around excitedly , becoming particularly frenetic if you stop somewhere else , rather than taking them immediately for a walk . |
| 17 | It 's easiest to stay on this path rather than taking the more obvious route up the side of the burn . |
| 18 | Rather than taking over or adapting old forms of psychology , these feminists hope to create a psychology of their own , which , by addressing specifically female aspects of subjectivity , will empower women . |
| 19 | If these depressions ( or low pressure areas ) are tracking in towards Ireland rather than taking a more northerly route , then the circulation of wind flowing clockwise ( as it must ) round the depression means that south-easterly winds will be blowing over Shetland from the North Sea and pushing any birds unfortunate enough to be flying to ( or from ) Scandinavia at the time in a westerly direction . |
| 20 | Rather than taking as gospel what the manufacturers tell us , SD-Scicon is busy researching what levels of system security users actually want so that CEC can make recommendations . |
| 21 | Aim for smaller success to start off with , rather than taking too large a leap which might result in disappointment and reduction in confidence . |
| 22 | Using Dement 's analogy , rather than taking their sleep in one meal , subjects may achieve enough to keep going by snatching " snacks " . |
| 23 | Millward Brown use their own proprietary system of analysis — a form of mathematical modelling — to translate the data for each individual brand into a so-called ‘ awareness index ’ ; and many of their clients have fallen into the tempting habit of using this single number as a measure of the effectiveness of a commercial or campaign , rather than taking the trouble to make a more detailed study of the data underlying the index . |
| 24 | By the 1930s , when the problems of dialogue recording made it easier to bring the world into the studio rather than taking the camera to the world ( whereas in the pre-sound 1920s it was fine control of lighting that favoured studio shooting ) , moving images — then and now called ‘ plates ’ — could be projected behind the action and foreground props or sets , provided the camera and projector were ( as in the step-printer already discussed ) exactly synchronized . |
| 25 | VSAM uses a modified form of B-tree , so that the number of keys and pointers is the same , and index entries are greater than or equal to the keys pointed to rather than taking some intermediate value . |
| 26 | For some it will be too late to fully recover more creative ways of asking the world to help them find what they need , rather than taking it brutally by theft , rape , or murder . |
| 27 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 28 | She had endowed the marriage ( and he could never really like the fellow ) most extravagantly out of her invested money , rather than taking a dip among the jewels that she never wore . |
| 29 | Art helps us to break out of this prison-house by subverting conventional sign-systems and forcing us to focus our attention on signs themselves rather than taking them for granted . |
| 30 | The quality of the build shows that some care has been taken in its assembly — for instance , where at all possible , input and output ports have been mounted on the case rather than taking up usable expansion slot space . |