Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 2 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 3 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 4 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 5 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 6 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 7 | It has a double effect : it reduces the fear in the cat itself and enables it to stay where it is , rather than move off into the distance ; it also prevents any counter-staring by the cat , which would spell defiance and possibly provoke further hostility . |
| 8 | It was natural that reformers should attack latifundia , where the under-utilization of the land and the pressure of population were obvious , rather than settle down to the complicated legal technicalities involved in the consolidation of vast numbers of dispersed strips . |
| 9 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 10 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 11 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 13 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 14 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 15 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 16 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 17 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 18 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |