Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , though , more overtly apparent when he attempts to limit the damage to the atmosphere of the conversation caused by McKendrick 's accusation of his insincerity when praising Stoke university : Rather than make a straightforward denial , Anderson tries to diffuse the tension with humour by playing on the literal sense of McKendrick 's accusation. his display of urbane wit brings about some laughter from McKendrick but it also elicits a sardonic comment which is a valid observation on Anderson 's character . |
| 2 | Rather than make a decisive choice , he played a double game . |
| 3 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |
| 4 | Seek professional advice if needs be , rather than make a valiant attempt yourself and then regret it . |
| 5 | Rather than make the risky journey to Scone , James III was crowned in Kelso abbey near Roxburgh . |
| 6 | Whitehall mandarins have discreetly voiced hopes that the party leaders will cobble together an agreement rather than face a second election . |
| 7 | He revealed that BMW is prepared to withdraw from the US rather than face the economic suicide such regulations would bring . |
| 8 | They were not the only respondent of the survey who identified another clear advantage of headhunting , especially for the most senior positions : that staff who were prepared to move jobs actually prefer to be headhunted , rather than face the time-consuming task of ploughing through advertisements or the slightly demoralising task of putting their names down with agencies . |
| 9 | Outmoded models are still conventional wisdom and in geomorphology there are signs that , rather than face the new realities , there is a retreat into the more rarefied atmosphere of conceptual model-building and complex correlation structure diagrams . |
| 10 | It is worth remembering that one of Ælfric 's patrons , and the founder of his abbeys of Cerne and Eynsham , was the nobleman Ætheær who may have retired from court rather than face the growing influence of Eadric Streona . |
| 11 | It is generally accepted that odours per se do not cause a risk of infection and it is doubtful whether nausea , sleeplessness , mental strain or depression , commonly suffered by people exposed to odours , would be regarded as evidence of prejudice to health , as they affect a person 's general well-being , rather than threaten a clinical disease . |
| 12 | In so far as it is necessary to have new political institutions , the Community should cherish rather than threaten the rich diversity of nations and regions within it . |
| 13 | Even the medium of an academic thesis ( 1978 ) has been used by John Crompton , her colleague at Newcastle University , to express his scorn rather than offer a cool evaluation . |
| 14 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 15 | It will add to inflation and aggravate rather than cure the current recession . |
| 16 | Rather than create a new institution , is it not more feasible to improve our existing one , the police ? |
| 17 | Rather than create a new contract by novation , it may be possible for the purchaser to perform the obligations vicariously on behalf of the vendor under the existing contract . |
| 18 | I read a book by the American painter Charles Reid who said that rather than paint a dark background all round a daisy it is sometimes better to put just one dark drop of colour behind the vase of the petal to get the most impact . |
| 19 | Indeed , this was the very reason that the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Young Offenders had recommended , in 1927 , the reform of the system : ‘ When it is realised that these courts are specially equipped to help rather than punish the young offender , we hope that the reluctance to bring such children before will disappear . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Newspapers have promoted a witch hunt rather than reassure a worried public , ’ it says . |
| 21 | Surely such lazy car drivers who park directly beside bus stops rather than walk a few yards to a shop , should be prosecuted before a fatal accident results from their thoughtless actions . |
| 22 | The reforms made the splits already present within the republican governments yet more defined and were used as tools to benefit the ruling regime , rather than build a broad democratic consensus . |
| 23 | This is not a criticism of the theories in themselves , but if discourse analysis is to incorporate them , and to demonstrate their relevance to the language learner , it will need to test their value in interpreting language which has actually occurred ; to select what is relevant from context rather than invent a few elements of it ; to account for writing as well as speech , and to account for discourse where there is no constant feedback from the receiver who may not even be present . |
| 24 | Former Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo ( Democrat ) , committed suicide on Jan. 31 , 1990 , rather than serve a four-year prison sentence for extortion and interfering with witnesses . |
| 25 | In this case I believe that it is by far preferable to accept the lack of consistency which we all know exists in papers marked by people , rather than suffer the strangling constraints on what and how we teach forced upon us when papers are marked by machine . |
| 26 | ‘ Ken Russell , the director , insisted I grew one of my own , rather than wear a false one , so that I looked completely convincing . |
| 27 | Thus , if you want to study the use of the word ‘ true ’ in Arthur Hugh Clough , rather than generate a massive concordance containing all the words in Clough 's poems , and then leafing through it to find the word ‘ true ’ , you use the concordance package commands to generate a concordance which contains all and only the uses of ‘ true ’ . |
| 28 | The proceedings featured acrimonious debate , but the congress ended with the endorsement of a reformist manifesto , albeit affirming that the party would remain Marxist rather than go the social democratic way of other former ruling East European communist parties as they prepared , like the BCP , to compete in free elections . |
| 29 | This is not to argue that prior activation of one hemisphere can not introduce a bias towards the opposite ear ( Nachson , 1973 ; Morais and Landercy , 1977 ) but it does suggest that the effect of activation may be to engage the processing mechanisms of a particular hemisphere rather than upset a hemispheric balance of attention . |
| 30 | It has chosen to steer a middle course between them rather than undertake a strategic review . |