Example sentences of "rather [subord] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes down , rather than up , probably because there is no way out higher up . |
| 2 | But what about movement that feels backwards rather than forwards , down rather than up ? |
| 3 | The Chartley type , possibly influenced by the Longhorn , extends outwards and then tends to curve downwards rather than up . |
| 4 | ‘ Prudence ’ , claimed Sam Smiles , ‘ requires that we pitch our scale of living a degree below our means , rather than up to them : but this can only be done by carrying out faithfully a plan of living by which both ends may be made to meet . ’ |
| 5 | He made out a case for dressing down rather than up . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Maybe this was in a fit of pique when the relationship was down rather than up . |
| 7 | After five years ' work , Olivier was certain of only two things : that the population , even at the highest estimate , was by no means enough to ensure the eventual survival of the species ; and that the figures henceforward would be on the way down rather than up . |
| 8 | It is often the case that the quality of the documents produced by someone adopting desktop publishing goes down rather than up . |
| 9 | And all this has happened with costs going down rather than up . |
| 10 | They are simple to install , for all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip protruding sufficiently to enable the full body of water to be emptied into the pool rather than on to the surrounding ground ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 11 | The steeplechase course at Auteuil is a far cry from Newbury or Cheltenham , and the runners in the four-mile Grand Steeplechase have to negotiate a bewildering variety of obstacles : some of the fences are soft privet , to be jumped through rather than over ; there are two natural brooks , including the Rivière de la Tribune — four metres of water preceded by a hedge one metre high and one metre wide ; and then there is Le Bullfinch , a rail , ditch and fence on top of a stone wall . |
| 12 | That she could look up at men rather than over or down at them . |
| 13 | The two men were so different — opposites even : Lajos acting out his tragedy to the world Christopher-Stefan self-contained , self-reliant , intensely private , yet looking out rather than in . |
| 14 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 15 | Canon Atkinson regarded the word as indisputedly Old Danish , and the idea that ‘ horn ’ was something to be blown as another absurdity ; ‘ horn ’ meant horned stock and ‘ garth ’ meant fence , so we have ‘ horned-stock fence ’ — but for keeping animals out rather than in . |
| 16 | It is the position of the switch — on rather than off — that made the windscreen wipers start to work , as it is the position of the heater and the density of the snow that cause the other mentioned effects . |
| 17 | ‘ The location should be well-placed with respect to the population , rather than off in deep countryside . |
| 18 | House and land prices tend on the whole to go up rather than down . |
| 19 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 20 | They burnt Brighton in 1544 , forcing the settlement to grow finally upon the cliffs rather than down on the beach , threatened by the French and ‘ Neptune 's insatiate womb ’ . |
| 21 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 22 | You know rather than down to the line planning for every single moment of the day . |
| 23 | This presentation would have benefited from being delivered out to the audience , rather than down to the lectern , and he should practise opening his mouth wider when talking — he was sometimes difficult to follow . |
| 24 | Standards are likely to be levelled up rather than down . |
| 25 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |
| 26 | And the more valuable the horse is , with the consequent likelihood of it being kept in more confined and stressful conditions — stabled in solitude rather than out in the paddock with companions — the greater the chances of it developing colic . |
| 27 | ‘ The ultimate test always was : Would it be funnier if , for example , Carry On Abroad was filmed in Spain rather than out on the lot ? |
| 28 | There would be no shortage of clubs interested if the dispute escalated , but Graham will want Merson in peak condition rather than out of the club . |
| 29 | The thin permeable skin allows moisture to flow into the animal rather than out of it . |
| 30 | Anderson , for instance , suggests that the strong family cohesion amongst some groups in rural areas was maintained by migrants into Lancashire cotton plants like Preston though largely for fairly calculative reasons rather than out of emotional loyalty to kin . |