Example sentences of "rather than [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 2 | Rather than achieving for the sheer stimulation , or intrinsic worth of the achievement , they are driven in a never-ending competition ‘ to be someone ’ . |
| 3 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 4 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 5 | Rather than striving for an impossible , and ultimately sterile , objectivity , scholars will increasingly need to follow Mary Louise Pratt 's example in admitting their own ideological commitments in order to promote the development of research . |
| 6 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 7 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 8 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 9 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 10 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 11 | Overall , Mr Charkin presented a picture of a man enthralled by present opportunities and future potentialities , rather than yearning for the comfortable certainties of the recent past . |