Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] rather than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I am sure you prefer myself and Master Daunbey to search the house rather than clod-hopping shire levies ? ’ |
| 2 | He continued to carry the hat rather than wear it . |
| 3 | But it is very much more important for the novelist to see the trees rather than the wood . |
| 4 | In addition , the mass picketing outside Grunwick 's works was intended to publicize the dispute rather than cause violent obstruction , as with Arthur Scargill 's massed legions at the Saltley coke depot in 1972 . |
| 5 | Legislation , he said , would not solve the problem of compliance with the code because it would be all too easy to meet the letter rather than the spirit of the law . |
| 6 | Though all but Vermont are required by state law to balance their budgets , many will cheerfully borrow to plug the gap rather than raise taxes or cut spending . |
| 7 | The correspondence , leaked to Labour 's Trade spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , discloses for the first time that Lord Young appeared to plan with Professor Roland Smith , chairman of British Aerospace , to hide the figures rather than simply leaving the information to be ‘ scattered ’ in obscure documents in the hope that Parliament would not notice it . |
| 8 | If departure from the wording depends on the testator 's intention , then this involves the assumption that the settlor would prefer his granddaughter to obtain the estate rather than the heir ( whoever that may be ) of his last surviving son to do so . |
| 9 | All the rhetoric about redoubling efforts to fulfil the plan or striding confidently towards the future in imitation of the Great Leader was intended in practice to pacify the people rather than to stimulate them . |
| 10 | These exaggerations are offered to define the limits rather than to present accurate profiles , but they do highlight an educational dilemma . |
| 11 | When considering the regulations for set-aside , which is a very valuable tool in the present negotiations , will the Minister make them rather more positive by enabling farmers who have land set aside — especially , perhaps , for one year — to use the year to clean the land rather than merely to cut it ? |
| 12 | Prince Yuan was a clever one , there was no doubting it , so perhaps he understood why the T'ang had appointed him to oversee the Project rather than someone more sympathetic . |
| 13 | However , the court agreed with the views expressed obiter by another division of the court in the case of Emerson ( 1990 ) 92 Cr.App.R. 284 ; where a transcript was provided it was merely a means of presenting the exhibit , which was the tape itself , to the court : if the jury wished to hear the tape rather than rely on the written transcript , there was no proper reason why they should not be allowed to do so . |
| 14 | ( also ‘ Masai ’ ) Murrells complained that Browne depended on force of personality alone to administer the Masai rather than , as was proper , ‘ custom , procedure and authority … supported by ‘ personality ’ . |
| 15 | Admittedly — and this takes care of the other payoff conditions needed to make the situation a true Prisoner 's Dilemma — they probably agreed with the generals in preferring to win the war rather than lose it . |
| 16 | Basically they are titbits and are designed to excite the appetite rather than assuage it . |
| 17 | ( He does not even make any special point about the dishonesty which there would seem to be in doing this when acceptance of those claims is not the cause of one 's own attitude — to do so would be , from his point of view , to play the moralist rather than the philosopher who should simply describe ethical discourse . ) |
| 18 | Thus , he or she will tend to resolve the crisis rather than use it as a lever towards treatment . |
| 19 | Should the man choose to chase the quail rather than shoot it , he would almost certainly still have his dinner . |
| 20 | It was the most strident speech Mr Major has made during the campaign and represented a further attempt to underline the differences rather than the similarities between the political parties . |
| 21 | Quinn 's expert manager will be one who recognizes that he has to guide the organization rather than lead it too definitively . |
| 22 | Should we be thrusting more work down to districts and th , and they 'll to do the job rather than always assume it should be done at this level ? |
| 23 | As a TO one wants to do as well as one can , and the paradox is that the better one does in a sense the worse it is for the voluntary movement , who should be persuaded to do the maximum rather than the minimum . |
| 24 | Lord Milligan said he had some sympathy with Sim 's predicament but he had chosen to defy the law rather than the people who were threatening him . |
| 25 | Despite the much-needed rain , schools have been able to play a substantial amount of cricket before turning to address the examiners rather than their opponents . |
| 26 | And , whatever the visual indications in the Sussex match , he whispered to me — marginally out of the skipper 's hearing — that he felt his natural skill was to spin the ball rather than flight . |
| 27 | While it is probably too much to expect English politicians to learn from Scotland , I would have hoped that in Scotland we will still try to understand the problems rather than take refuge in moral outrage and simply condemn . |
| 28 | The presumed parish coffin at St James , Garlickhythe , City of London , is , in fact , an elm container made in 1855 for the safekeeping of ‘ Jimmy Garlick ’ , the celebrated seventeenth-century desiccated corpse ; he was subsequently recased in the nineteenth century in a glass-fronted mahogany vitrine , erect rather than supine , at which time it must have been decided to keep the coffin rather than discard it . |
| 29 | Their use as a screen or selector seems to dictate the curriculum rather than merely to reflect it , and to bring it about that easily measurable accomplishments should be given priority , the repeating of acquired factual information , or the mechanical performance of skills picked up without understanding . |
| 30 | When there is disagreement , there is much to be said for retreating specifically to consider the model rather than the problem . |