Example sentences of "rather [subord] [v-ing] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 2 | They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release . |
| 3 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 4 | If you like hanging out washing rather than drying it in the bowels of an expensive machine , you will need to tuck away a line and make a dry path to get to and from it . |
| 5 | To repeat , however , the interpretation of competitive strength as current strength is preferable , because it focuses the dynamic management of the group portfolio on the grid itself , rather than leaving it as an inference of the underlying analysis . |
| 6 | Well no cos it 's better receiving Valentines card rather than hearing it over the phone really why they gave them out |
| 7 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 8 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 9 | You may well think indeed that I 'm wasting your time in calling this an assumption rather than recognising it as a plain fact . |
| 10 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 11 | In this respect , the organiser continues to integrate the experience into schools and local authority plans , rather than perceiving it as an additional bolt-on training opportunity . |
| 12 | In each case the intention will be to emphasize the artefact 's constitutive character , rather than treating it as a mere reflection of social relations , that is a ‘ human mirror ’ . |
| 13 | One solution to this problem would be to assign a length to a probe , rather than treating it as a point , so that short probes could be contained within longer ones . |
| 14 | Analysts , however , have taken the concept of ‘ literal meaning ’ as a ‘ neutral ’ and ‘ universal ’ tool of study rather than treating it as an object of study in itself , as a part of the ‘ social construction of reality ’ which they are trying to describe and to explain . |
| 15 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 16 | What you are aiming at is a steady indication on the localiser needle , rather than returning it to the centre . |
| 17 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 18 | Pershing II , which dives steeply onto its target rather than hitting it in a shallow trajectory can carry a special ‘ earth-penetrator ’ warhead that will bore through soil to attack underground bunkers . |