Example sentences of "[subord] [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 2 | They have also been successful in encouraging many traditional pet shops to sell pre-packed pet foods , rather than loose from a sack . |
| 3 | When painting during redecorating , I 've sometimes had to remove a telephone cable and staples from the skirting , to make a neat job of it , rather than paint over the cable . |
| 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 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 6 | Rather than stay in a stuffy room we decided to carry on with our lessons out of sight of the road in the back garden , which was more distracting but more pleasant . |
| 7 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 8 | Ceiling-mounted fans are usually designed to extract air into the loft space or a similar ventilated void , rather than direct to the outside . |
| 9 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 10 | Rather than fall into the hands of the Witch King 's servants he jumped into the sea in full armour . |
| 11 | In such a case better to accept whatever penalties the Church might impose , however harsh , for theft and deceit , rather than fall into the hands of the secular law , my law , ’ said Hugh firmly , ‘ where murder is a hanging matter . |
| 12 | The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court . |
| 13 | The Tory back-benchers could take some comfort from the argument that it was operational control rather than manufacture of the weapons that mattered . |
| 14 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 15 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 16 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 17 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |
| 18 | Rather than wait for an employment appeal tribunal , they went on strike . |
| 19 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 20 | Rather than wait for the release of the third cinema outing , Ocean have written an excellent multilevel extravaganza , incorporating and improving on existing styles from the other two RoboCop games . |
| 21 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 22 | The World Cup referees must have felt that the ball had ‘ been killed ’ on the ground and that it was therefore necessary to blow straight away for the penalty rather than wait for the advantage to occur . |
| 23 | Moreover , if the tables are to be turned , the USSR will do so at a time of her choosing , rather than wait for the hour of maximum danger to herself . |
| 24 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 25 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 26 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 27 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 28 | At the summit , which was by all accounts an exceptionally heated affair , President Mubarak broke with Arab tradition and forced through a majority vote , rather than wait for the emergence of a unanimous compromise . |
| 29 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 30 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |