Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ratings of a specific meaning were made possible by a two-stage assessment procedure carried out by the members of the research team , rather than using self-rating questionnaire methods . |
| 2 | The major disadvantage is that the Works database function is a flat-file system , rather than a relational database , so that comparisons between separate databases had to made manually , rather than using relational database technology . |
| 3 | Universal Software Inc. offer a PSAM package that achieves improvement by splitting additions between blocks in the prime data area — i.e. providing distributed free space — rather than defining separate overflow areas . |
| 4 | Rather than accepting this end point , they want to push on and ask how individuals got the properties — including their desires , intentions and so forth that are regarded as root causes by individualists . |
| 5 | The feeling that the centre only wanted financial and technical control to check every detail of their action , rather than to stimulate responsible management decentralisation , inevitably increased . |
| 6 | IMHO it is a much better idea in the long run to post the material to an anonymous FTP location rather than wasting valuable Internet bandwidth E-Mailing the material around the list ! |
| 7 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 8 | To gain the maximum benefit from each interview ( if you are aiming to learn a proper selection technique rather than treat each interview selection as a one-off event ) you should do a thorough follow-up . |
| 9 | The DRA 's objective is to see the technology succeed rather than to generate short term income — and Robertson believes the chances are high . |
| 10 | F-15s and F-16s off the shelf rather than waste vast development costs which could be better deployed in the commercial sector . |
| 11 | F-15s and F-16s off the shelf rather than waste vast development costs which could be better deployed in the commercial sector . |
| 12 | Will the Minister reconsider the wisdom of the policy change introduced a couple of years ago by the Local Enterprise Development Unit to endorse and support market research and development , rather than providing direct grant aid for job creation ? |
| 13 | As the Shipping Federation got into gear in supplying " free labour " , the emphasis quickly changed to encouraging rather than discouraging foreign seamen recruitment and entrance fees were reduced . |
| 14 | Rather than organizing mass midnight meetings to confront the evil in working-class areas she judged it more effective for women to go into the ‘ dens of infamy ’ in the morning as friends and advisers . |
| 15 | But the opportunity has been used to create positions in ‘ new areas of interest , information technology and craft design and technology ’ , rather than to replace lost arts posts . |
| 16 | He estimates it is ‘ cheaper to discard books already in stock , rather than building additional storage space of reader access quality , if the books in question have a prospective frequency of use that has fallen below once in about 13 years ’ . |
| 17 | Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug . |
| 18 | McKean and Murray have now scored doubles at three major events — the 1989 World Cup in Barcelona , the 1990 European Championships in Split and now Toronto — but rather than give each other confidence by their successes , Boyle believes it 's more a case of ‘ anything you can do , I can do better . ’ |
| 19 | He prefers to borrow rather than raise outside equity capital and thus dilute control . |
| 20 | InterCity had to solve the problem of getting its passengers from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury and chose to do so by hiring a bus rather than paying another railway sector to do the job . |
| 21 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 22 | North Korea has said it will pull out of the treaty rather than allow United Nations inspections of two suspected nuclear facilities . |
| 23 | Second , that in general this means reducing the value of allowances and broadening the tax base rather than increasing marginal tax rates . |
| 24 | As one of the worst examples , he cited a recent case at Reading Crown Court where the prosecution decided to offer no evidence against three animal activists , rather than reveal sensitive police records . |
| 25 | Their contribution so far has emphasized reviews of human impacts often reflecting research in other disciplines rather than appropriate fundamental impact studies by physical geographers . |
| 26 | In his statement , Trafalgar 's chief executive Sir Eric Parker FCA said that ‘ in view of the state of the commercial property market , we decided at the beginning of the year to retain certain properties rather than selling high quality assets at unattractive prices ’ . |
| 27 | The problem was that rather than landing Portuguese champion club Cascais in the semis they were drawn against the Saltires in a re-run of last year 's final . |
| 28 | Normally the best way forward is to create a stable environment and to cut corporation tax so that businesses can make their own investment decisions , rather than to distort those investment decisions . |