Example sentences of "[v-ing] rather [subord] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is due to the seasonal nature of so much agricultural work , which makes it cheaper for the company to employ labourers during the planting or harvesting rather than maintain a labour force throughout the year . |
| 2 | I do not know whether that is being emulated elsewhere , so I am asking rather than making a statement . |
| 3 | On 9 November , the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 came into effect , suspending rather than abolishing the death penalty for those categories of murder that had been capital . |
| 4 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 5 | Only the Lithuanians accounted for so large a proportion of the population of their own republic , and the measure was widely seen as blocking rather than facilitating a transition to fully independent status . |
| 6 | Any expressions of the desire for democracy in China were usually inspired by their patriotism and their wish to improve the nation 's standing rather than to over-throw the system . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the act of changing rather than continuing the use can of itself constitute ‘ development ’ ; this can be a very important consideration . |