Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outmoded models are still conventional wisdom and in geomorphology there are signs that , rather than face the new realities , there is a retreat into the more rarefied atmosphere of conceptual model-building and complex correlation structure diagrams . |
| 2 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 3 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 4 | In this case I believe that it is by far preferable to accept the lack of consistency which we all know exists in papers marked by people , rather than suffer the strangling constraints on what and how we teach forced upon us when papers are marked by machine . |
| 5 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 6 | The firm reckons that discounters will eventually end up cannibalising each other 's market share rather than damaging the bigger chains . |
| 7 | But if Dr Mumby 's right , Turtle fans may find that rather than helping the good guys , they could instead get a cow bunger clobbering from the Turtle team by turning into the baddies . |
| 8 | In the video Jones is , in the main , observing rather than advocating the ruthless antics of the hard men . |
| 9 | They continue to perpetrate the discredited myth of economic invincibility rather than reflect the harsh realities of recession and reunification . |
| 10 | Attention is being given to grass-roots structures , which the election revealed as over-grown rather than bearing the green shoots of healthy activity . |
| 11 | Are you still arguing with your finance function about whose numbers are accurate , rather than discussing the real issues of motivation , development , and cost effectiveness ? |
| 12 | Rather than disappoint the young actors plans are in hand to perform The Wizard of Oz instead . |
| 13 | So rather than use the other terms which have been suggested to describe this variety , such as " black Cockney " , " black London English " , " British Black English " , which suggest a specifically black " ethnolect " , Hewitt prefers to talk of the " local multi-racial vernacular " . |
| 14 | Coastal erosion , the advance of the sands , had interested him insofar as it had destroyed the estate of a landowner who then chose to relinquish the property rather than pay the requisite taxes . |
| 15 | For de Gaulle , apparently , the sooner the better and , although this may be straining the comparison , on the analogy of Badoglio 's Italy , the French in Vietnam might at least have been allowed to work their passage towards the status of a fully fledged ally rather than endure the uncomfortable ambiguities of a compromised position . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rather than having the unskilled parts of the operation — the lifting and placing — performed by the robot , and the skilled part — the welding — performed by the welder , the opposite solution was adopted . |
| 18 | Individual empowerment programs have meant promoting self-esteem , job competencies , or literacy , rather than changing the environmental conditions which contribute to not having power . |
| 19 | The government should devote its energies to making sure that criminals are caught and imprisoned , rather than undermining the civil rights of citizens . |
| 20 | Regrettably , most other television programmes , notably ‘ fly on the wall ’ documentaries from Yorkshire Television and Central have sought to expose the inadequate conditions in which many mentally handicapped people live , especially in long stay hospitals , rather than discuss the progressive steps being made in the care of the mentally handicapped in Britain today . |
| 21 | However , if it 's being done to honour British art rather than to satisfy the mundane demands of space packaging , that could be quite interesting . |
| 22 | On the other hand , this argument assumes that the function of judicial review is first and foremost to provide redress against illegal government action rather than to protect the personal interests of litigants . |
| 23 | Rather than store the complete words in a lexicon , such systems store the probabilities of letter transitions . |
| 24 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 25 | This provision has a narrow ambit and it does not prevent a supplier attempting to shrink the core of the obligations , rather than excluding the implied terms . |
| 26 | Already , on the dock below , taxis were lining up , waiting for passengers who might want to tour the island independently , rather than join the organised excursions by coach . |
| 27 | There are good reasons why I prefer to purse-net whenever possible rather than kill the bolting rabbits with a shotgun . |
| 28 | 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 ’ ) . |