Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather [subord] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinnock dismissed the proposed Charter on July 23 as " an election gimmick " designed to boost the Conservatives ' electoral ratings rather than tackle the relevant issues , and said that it was an implicit admission that the government had allowed the quality of public services to decline during its years in office . |
| 2 | Suppressing emotions Rather than letting the emotional blockages out , the person demands logic , rationality ( ‘ Let's not get emotional' or ‘ Please , let's act like adults ’ ) . |
| 3 | Their intention was to treat each case on its merits rather than reproduce the traditional left-right divide in British politics . |
| 4 | But following this change in tax credits on dividends some employer contribution holidays will have to stop , while other less well-padded schemes may be forced to invest more in secure vehicles such as bonds and gilts rather than maintain the heavy weighting towards equities typical of most funds at present . |
| 5 | The result was the rationalisation of the industrial structure , which Professor G.C. Allen has summed up : ‘ The chief effect of government intervention between the wars was to defend the failures rather than to encourage the enterprising ’ . |
| 6 | Confronted with the entrance of significant new competitors , the secular decline and progressive decomposition of mass demand , innovative manufacturers are experimenting with methods of increasing productive flexibility , reducing the total cost of producing an extended and shifting product range for particular market niches rather than minimizing the average output cost of a narrow range of standardized commodities ( Sabel , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Embarrassed bank officials agreed not to call in police rather than lose the entire haul and face bad publicity . |
| 8 | Tenth-century kings tried to achieve a balance between secular and ecclesiastical power in the localities rather than to crush the former ; this was demonstrably the aim of Otto I and Otto II when disposing of the tributes exacted from the Slav peoples . |