Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather [subord] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Even the economic stimulus package that Congress defeated last week , which contained nearly half a billion dollars for the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and other federal research agencies ( see right ) , would at best have strengthened existing programmes rather than charting new directions .
2 Why do animals perform their restrained ritual contests rather than fighting all out straight away ?
3 These are only stereotypes and each child in a family may have some characteristics of several of these behavioural patterns rather than fit one particular stereotype .
4 Their contribution so far has emphasized reviews of human impacts often reflecting research in other disciplines rather than appropriate fundamental impact studies by physical geographers .
5 This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour .
6 For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart , and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisements sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses :
7 The penalties against fat women are so extreme that women continue to starve themselves and buy useless diet products rather than endure such humiliation and exclusion .
8 In other words , Sergeant Wilson ( who has since left the force ) agreed to compromise to enhance his career opportunities rather than present any challenge to the system .
9 These composers , producing largely in the ‘ hillbilly ’ and ‘ race ’ genres , often used different methods , codifying or ‘ transcribing ’ what were essentially performances rather than producing prescriptive scores ; and their methods suited the needs of the emergent recording industry exactly ( see Whit comb 1973 : 108–9 , 206–12 ) .
10 Nor do examinations in arts subjects help , for these press assignments into preordained formulae rather than liberate innate ideas .
11 The fact that changes are being contemplated might illustrate to the directors of RWC the folly of arriving at such arrangements in cabals rather than conducting open draws — which are more exciting and include seeding to prevent geographical or quality imbalances .
12 Whilst the ambiguity and allusiveness of late 19th century sculpture was firmly rooted in the representation of the human figure the ( point of contact between the two exhibitions ) which acted as a metaphor for emotion , that of Chadwick or Wilding goes beyond that so that the human body is alluded to indirectly , as a train of associations rather than direct mimetic referent .
13 Shoe manufacturers , who are in the business of selling shoes rather than repairing old ones , understandably guard such items jealously .
14 As for the idea of ‘ community ’ , they argued that the Council 's policy would undermine existing communities rather than create new ones .
15 Thus , for example , they were supplemented by the Convention on Certain Institutions Common to the European Communities ( of 1957 ) which had the effect , among other things , of setting up a single Court of Justice common to the three Communities rather than leaving three courts to subsist separately under each treaty .
16 Hilton stresses that a quickened sense of the inner meaning of the Incarnation can not be forced ; it is essentially experienced as a gift and those eager to know God should always try to work with the grain of their own particular natures rather than force any prescribed activity : " take esili wolen come " ( 53.637 ) .
17 There are eight varieties of olives , bulk and bottled , including a Californian one stuffed with jalapeno ; olive oil , most famously Carbonell whose comely wench pictured on the labels must be the emblem of Spanish olive oil in British imaginations , comes in gallon tins rather than fancy little bottles .
18 The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area .
19 Studies of decision-making look at the actual process of policy-making , the values , goals and strategies of the different participants rather than postulate abstract , unfalsifiable and unobservable notions of ‘ objective interests or ‘ non-decisions ’ .
20 those following an implicit social optimality approach , looking at the pros and cons of a reform from the viewpoint of all affected individuals rather than reflecting sectional interests ,
21 Football is a prime example , with a 78-year-old figurehead , two ruling bodies in constant opposition , too many matches being played , too little proper direction , and too much emphasis on making money on all costs rather than improving declining standards .
22 Rhodium sales slipped back during the year as car companies utilised strategic stocks rather than purchase new metal .
23 In this respect , many of us in fact reform and bend English to our needs rather than allow that language to impose itself on our realities .
24 Well I thought if I get one this size , that will do for a few weeks rather than take some of them home and mess about better than there 's a big packet like a big one at home I 've just opened this morning so it 's
25 What can be done to shift from closed questions to those which encourage children to reflect and solve problems rather than recall tow-level information ?
26 The assessment panels have contributed to the development of the general idea that , within reasonable constraints and parameters , schools should be sufficiently flexible to adjust to defined needs and problems rather than impose rigid , homogeneous solutions to particular and individual problems .
27 So a supplier can then be contractually obliged to solve real problems rather than provide abstract features .
28 Modern linguistics has taken an entirely different road , rejecting the historicist and evolutionist interests of the mid-nineteenth century perhaps with excessive violence , and to this extent the main development of philology in our period worked out known principles rather than anticipating new ones .
29 The worry takes two main forms : that American managers spend too much time thinking about short-term earnings rather than making long-term investments ; and that American firms face a higher cost of capital than Japanese or German rivals and so reject investment projects that others eagerly accept .
30 When I lost a temporary job in a local Traffic Office , I packed my things rather than face another bleak winter and with seven shillings and sixpence in my pocket I went to some friends in south-east London .
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