Example sentences of "rather than wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be easier if we all presented a resume of ourselves rather than waited for the questions ! |
| 2 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 3 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 4 | Rather than waiting for more individual tenants to bring the same problem , it would be more efficient for the bureau to alert the local authority concerned and to explore with interested clients the possibility of a tenants ' association . |
| 5 | Are you willing to be loving towards yourself and others , to seek love by being love , rather than waiting for others to love you first ? |
| 6 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 7 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 8 | The animal can anticipate them , rather than waiting for direct evidence . |
| 9 | For example , some local authorities produce their financial statements very quickly ; on the other hand , they are able to do this by including more estimates of accrued expenditure rather than waiting for invoices to come in . |
| 10 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 11 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 12 | The Bank of England has , for many years , sought to make this a continuous operation and it seeks to buy stock approaching maturity rather than waiting for legal redemption dates . |
| 13 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 14 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 15 | We made the decision to go despite the lack of an organized UK presence — we are on-air with a new series running from January to March 1991 and we wanted to make contacts before then , rather than wait for MIP-TV to come around in April . |
| 16 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 17 | It may happen sometimes that the patient may wish to end his life , rather than wait for death . |
| 18 | Rather than wait for the release of the third cinema outing , Ocean have written an excellent multilevel extravaganza , incorporating and improving on existing styles from the other two RoboCop games . |
| 19 | Ben and Elizabeth found themselves doing what many others did in a similar predicament — rather than wait for banns to be read , they married by licence . |
| 20 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 21 | The World Cup referees must have felt that the ball had ‘ been killed ’ on the ground and that it was therefore necessary to blow straight away for the penalty rather than wait for the advantage to occur . |
| 22 | Rather than wait for an employment appeal tribunal , they went on strike . |
| 23 | Moreover , if the tables are to be turned , the USSR will do so at a time of her choosing , rather than wait for the hour of maximum danger to herself . |
| 24 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 25 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 26 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 27 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 28 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 29 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 30 | in West Yorkshire — stresses the need for preventive measures to identify potential offenders at an early stage , rather than wait for tragedies to occur ? |