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 . |