Example sentences of "rather [conj] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , likely that the audible beat was intermittent rather than constant , and that it functioned mainly to co-ordinate the chorus and dances on stage , rather than to control the solo singers or instrumentalists . |
| 2 | It must be stressed at the outset , lest the importance of this form of liability be exaggerated , that the plaintiffs lost their case because the predominant purpose of the embargo was to promote the interests of the union members rather than to injure the plaintiffs , but their Lordships made it clear that if the predominant purpose of a combination is to injure another in his trade or business or in his other legitimate interests then , if damage results , the tort of conspiracy exists . |
| 3 | At the launch of Smith 's campaign , it soon became clear that he intends to encourage rather than to lead the debate about the party 's future . |
| 4 | It was a conventional menu but one intended , he felt , to please the guests rather than to demonstrate the ingenuity of the cook . |
| 5 | A more serious problem is the bias of the sources , which reflect the views of the ruling class rather than those of the rebels and therefore tend to paint a picture of disorder rather than to record the grievances which prompted the revolt . |
| 6 | US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment . |
| 7 | In all forms of natural therapy , which aim to stimulate rather than to suppress the body 's natural defences , the axiom is : by creating favourable conditions in the whole person , body-mind-spirit , the body will heal itself . |
| 8 | And it was very difficult to erm to get to get much activity going in the flats cos people 's people 's aim was to get out rather than to improve the conditions or or work on local issues . |
| 9 | Except for a brief success for Wilson in London and Southampton , cooks and stewards seem to have been stimulated by his recruiting drive to set up their own organisation rather than to join the NSFU . |
| 10 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 11 | As the commission pointed out , despite the sophistication of the British planning system , it was designed to control land use rather than to promote the development of land . |
| 12 | Any expressions of the desire for democracy in China were usually inspired by their patriotism and their wish to improve the nation 's standing rather than to over-throw the system . |
| 13 | These factors may indeed be present but are more likely to act as partners with unresolved emotional issues in people 's lives , rather than to initiate the disease . |
| 14 | He knows that they are regarded simply as Tory party stooges put there to do a job on behalf of central office rather than to represent the interests of the people . |
| 15 | His or her ambition should be to become a recognised professional in the field , to handle more and more prestigious assignments rather than to acquire the powers of a line executive . |
| 16 | West Germany was still very prosperous in the late 1970s , improvements were being made in living standards and Schmidt was able to limit the difficulties in the economy , even if he often seemed to react to events rather than to give the country any real sense of direction . |
| 17 | Typically , the teacher is called upon to implement the second order realization of new ideas in the form of teaching materials rather than to consider the ideas themselves and how they key in with his own experience of teaching . |
| 18 | In the Edinburgh system , all word possibilities are stored on the word graph and higher level knowledge is used only to filter out possibilities , rather than to dictate the set of possibilities . |
| 19 | An overwhelming desire to injure the plaintiff rather than to inform the public would have to be proved . |
| 20 | The IBA , with an over-abundance of legal caution , did cut such references from a Labour Party political broadcast , apparently on the ground that the broadcasters might be deemed " malicious " if their dominant motive was to win votes for themselves rather than to inform the public of the truth about persons standing for public office . |
| 21 | Measures are usually taken to shield the investigator from environmental radiation rather than to prevent the radiation escaping from the source . |
| 22 | These events make it likely that the mobilization of troops on the western borders was designed to keep order among the empire 's non-Russians rather than to prepare the ground for an invasion of central Europe . |
| 23 | The organisational complexities of allocating vacancies in local authority homes will differ in each area , but are designed to minimise conflict within the organisation rather than to meet the needs of individuals , where there is competition for places . |
| 24 | In the early months of the BEA , these conservative attitudes remained strong ( though experimental work on higher voltage transmission was continued ) , and many CEB men felt it would be best to break the Grid up into three to meet the future demands they were expecting , rather than to raise the voltages and maintain a national system . |
| 25 | Experience told him that a woman 's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker . |
| 26 | The system posed some obstacles to the monarch 's freedom of appointment , but it reflected above all the nobles ' concern to benefit from rather than to limit the power of the State . |
| 27 | To say the very least , there is a suspicion that the legal system has been devised to suit the lawyers rather than to protect the public . |
| 28 | Livestock owners continued to manage their herds primarily as a means of survival and a bank of wealth rather than to maximize the number of animals they marketed . |
| 29 | Because bargaining occurs at the margin there is a tendency in negotiating situations for each party to take the course of action which seems to minimize the disadvantages , rather than to maximize the gains . |
| 30 | All too often releases are written to please the management of the company rather than to fulfil the requirements of the media . |