Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the windows we shall put in here are the type of windows called a fenestral which are made of linen and I 'll show you one of those later on rather than explain it now . |
| 2 | Secondary school classes have also grown , with more pupils staying on rather than face the dole queue . |
| 3 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 4 | Alcester therefore resembles a minority of other small towns which lie beside rather than athwart main roads , such as Dorn ( p. 253 ) . |
| 5 | Although controversial , and greatly disliked by the judiciary , this is clearly intended to divert petty persistent offenders away from custody by ruling out custodial penalties for such offenders altogether rather than allowing them to ‘ progress up the tariff ’ . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
| 7 | She turned her head , staring at him , noting how he looked down rather than meet her eyes , and knew at once that he was lying to her . |
| 8 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 9 | As the problem which prompted the question has been resolved by the Inland Revenue , will my hon. Friend pass on to its staff the thanks of many Members of Parliament for dealing with issues that we have raised on behalf of our constituents and say that we hope that the problems will continue to decline as tax rates come down rather than go up ? |
| 10 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 11 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 12 | drive slowly — it 's safer and it consumes less fuel ; avoid sudden stops and use the gears to slow down rather than making sudden brake stops |
| 13 | I noticed that the plastic Seayak bobbed up , over and down rather than cutting through the swell . |
| 14 | I 'd put the phone down rather than say the wrong thing and have my brother wreck yet another piece of Post Office property . |
| 15 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 16 | We have to view a stimulus for a finite time before it generates a perception , but that perception appears to us to occur instantaneously rather than fading into view like the Cheshire cat . ) |
| 17 | The driver is that , even though I am suffering , it adds merit to what I do — i.e. I will stand rather than sit , I will struggle through alone rather than ask for help . |
| 18 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 19 | So rather than use this overworked word a more precise description of the artist 's style and concepts will be attempted with the help of his own text . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | So rather than chasing alternatives , why not ‘ tune ’ what we have to minimise smog-producing fractions and maximise catalysable elements ? |
| 22 | It 's just , I I you know , we were there and we 'd sort of gone past so rather than reverse |
| 23 | So rather than cause er an incident there and then , I informed my partner to follow them back to wherever they went , which time I got on the radio back to control , that we required the police and the fire brigade . |
| 24 | By its nature , metaphysics almost never provides us with certainties ; so rather than bother with it , most people ’ believe ’ what to them seems most plausible . |
| 25 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 26 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 28 | This circuit is meant to be adapted to your specific needs , so rather than call it ‘ The Lakeland Way ’ or anything as horrendous as that , I would rather call it something antiquated like : ‘ Notes Towards a Considered Circular Pedestrian Peregrination Amongst some of the Major Fells and Dales of the County of Cumbria ’ , but it is hardly a working title . |
| 29 | So rather than covering entire platforms , we may use a design at a focal point within a station , but not where it clashes with the operational side of things . ’ |
| 30 | So rather than produce a simple double sided sheet or |