Example sentences of "[subord] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 2 | We have also fundamentally changed our manufacturing philosophy rather than manufacture here in the UK and sell abroad , we now , on the whole , manufacture where our markets are . ’ |
| 3 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 4 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 5 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 6 | The road began to wind rather than run straight between the dykes . |
| 7 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 8 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 9 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 10 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 11 | On the other hand , rather than move away from an area where similar firms operate , some firms may consider that it is in their own particular interest to move into such a location . |
| 12 | It has a double effect : it reduces the fear in the cat itself and enables it to stay where it is , rather than move off into the distance ; it also prevents any counter-staring by the cat , which would spell defiance and possibly provoke further hostility . |
| 13 | Time is a great healer so , rather than press on with a manoeuvre that is repeatedly failing , leave it for a while and come back to it later . |
| 14 | The Critiques can do nothing but proliferate extravagantly into the writing of a perpetual process of deferral . |
| 15 | ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’ |