Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMMUNIST North Korea , suspected of building an atomic arsenal , said yesterday it was pulling out of a world agreement on limiting nuclear arms rather than face international inspection of secret military sites . |
| 2 | Fellow sufferers move uncomfortably away rather than face similar embarrassment . |
| 3 | In Bulgaria , some Christians allowed themselves to be manipulated by the State , rather than face severe hardship or persecution . |
| 4 | But rather than offer more praise , we would like to offer something else . |
| 5 | Or it could be the beginning of justice and the end of administering the law , because , how much of what goes on in court is actually administering the law , rather than determining natural justice . |
| 6 | These ratings of a specific meaning were made possible by a two-stage assessment procedure carried out by the members of the research team , rather than using self-rating questionnaire methods . |
| 7 | The major disadvantage is that the Works database function is a flat-file system , rather than a relational database , so that comparisons between separate databases had to made manually , rather than using relational database technology . |
| 8 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 9 | In particular , rather than using manual digitization of the Master Survey Drawing , which involves a skilled operator following each line and noting the position of each feature with a pointer , as described above , the Ordnance Survey is considering the use of raster-based digitizing techniques . |
| 10 | Rather than risking poor accuracy with your loose feed or grondbait , an open end feeder can prove more effective at long range . |
| 11 | Universal Software Inc. offer a PSAM package that achieves improvement by splitting additions between blocks in the prime data area — i.e. providing distributed free space — rather than defining separate overflow areas . |
| 12 | Rather than accepting this end point , they want to push on and ask how individuals got the properties — including their desires , intentions and so forth that are regarded as root causes by individualists . |
| 13 | The feeling that the centre only wanted financial and technical control to check every detail of their action , rather than to stimulate responsible management decentralisation , inevitably increased . |
| 14 | However , against the background of government concern over inner-city disturbances , picket line violence , the Greenham Common demonstrations and other large scale protests , the emphasis has been on preserving order and minimising public inconvenience rather than facilitating effective protest . |
| 15 | BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity . |
| 16 | The overall aim is to ensure that the welfare state encourages rather than penalizes personal initiative . |
| 17 | Rather than answer this question , Marjorie reverts to an earlier one . |
| 18 | IMHO it is a much better idea in the long run to post the material to an anonymous FTP location rather than wasting valuable Internet bandwidth E-Mailing the material around the list ! |
| 19 | The tenor of the above letter seems to endorse rather than diminish that inference — Ed . |
| 20 | Similarly , institutions are accused of ‘ disloyalty ’ in bid situations , preferring to take the premium rather than await longer-term growth . |
| 21 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 22 | Indeed , there is a strong argument that stretching the long arm of the law to the ‘ innocent ’ hacker could escalate rather than curb serious crime . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | How many truly realise that quality is knowing your buyer , getting him or her to define quality , rather than producing some sort of static standard which demands slavish conformance ? |
| 26 | Punishment would consequently also dwindle in importance as the division of labour progresses , and punitive law be replaced by ‘ restitutive law ’ which requires lawbreakers to make reparation to their victims rather than suffer retributive punishment . |
| 27 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 28 | Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics . |
| 29 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 30 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |