Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 15th was an obvious birdie hole but Wadkins thinned his drive and , after much deliberation , decided to lay up rather than go for the carry . |
| 2 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 3 | The birds do n't help themselves because when they are frightened they fly into the air and circle around rather than head for the trees . |
| 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 | When he hired a taxi to take her to Eastbourne for the day ( the same man who took a bus to the theatre , rather than pay for a cab ) she jumped out at the lights near Oval cricket ground because she was so disturbed by his erratic behaviour . |
| 7 | His front leg was paralysed from an old road accident , our vet guessed the owners had abandoned her rather than pay for the amputation . |
| 8 | But he says he 'll go to court rather than pay for the round which works out at £17.50 a measure . |
| 9 | Those who live near Yorke Square car park fear drivers will park around The Green and up the narrow nearby streets rather than pay for the car park . |
| 10 | There was a time , let it ever be remembered , only about 400 years ago , when our fathers were ruled over and tyrannised and when men like Calvin , Knox , Cranmer , Ridley and Latimer broke rather than bend for the Gospel and liberty . |
| 11 | Although enrolled student numbers increased during the period in all types of classes , membership of the WEA gradually declined , an indication perhaps that it was more for personal educational value rather than support for a wider social movement that adults attended District classes . |
| 12 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 13 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 14 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rather than wait for an employment appeal tribunal , they went on strike . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 23 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 29 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 30 | To all such approaches to the uses of speech , a strong objection might be made along the following lines : rather than look for a series of static functions or contextual parameters , one should attend directly to the single most important dynamic context of language use , namely conversation , or face-to-face interaction . |