Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Stuart Duncan is back in action after his career was put on hold following a serious knee injury last Christmas and Malone are still hoping that former Irish Schools ' star Scott Kirkpatrick remains at home rather than taking up an option to return to the States . |
| 2 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 3 | But there are some thing she ca n't change , like the way he shoves his hand into his pocket , his preference for classical music to Dire Straits , and looking at buildings rather than eyeing up the latest cat-walk creations |
| 4 | The company says that it intends to support the FDDI , Fibre Channel Standard and Parallel Channel Attachment standards but this will be for connecting the SP1 to file servers and hosts rather than speeding up the local network within the chassis . |
| 5 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 6 | Victims were named but the report did not give details of those responsible , its remit being to document repression rather than to carry out a judicial investigation . |
| 7 | Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion . |
| 8 | We need members need to get a grip on what is happening and my wife suggests this , that the panel erm rather than setting up a new panel , look at the whole issue of school meals , this and other issues . |
| 9 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 10 | Rather than rooting out a selection of screwdrivers before going away from base , the pack and ‘ T ’ handle were thrown in . |
| 11 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 12 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 13 | Not for the horse 's sake alone was it that carters would drive through a roadside pond , or choose to ford a stream rather than go over a bridge beside the ford . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's less threatening for men to lump women together and deal with them as one , rather than pointing out the differences . ’ |
| 15 | With the recent publication of the Peak Supplement , most activity has been on the repeat scene rather than filling in the gaps . |
| 16 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 17 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 18 | True , in the judgment itself it might appear that the court was making a pontifical statement of existing principle rather than laying down a new rule , for they regarded their own proposition as having been anticipated by Holt . |
| 19 | ‘ This is clearly demonstrated by farmers who simply use the bull of the day rather than reading up the figures and selecting the best sire for their needs . ’ |
| 20 | Politicians fueled rather than played down the belief that Britain should become , in the words of one politician , " a land fit for heroes " once " the war to end all wars " was won — in other words , that provision should be made for those who had fought for King and Country . |
| 21 | Some would have starved rather than give up the playing . |
| 22 | More importantly , the existing upper floor of this outshot proved to be too close to the lean-to roof to give a habitable room-height , so rather than raise up the roof level of the entire extension , it was decided to reduce the level of the upper floor to create adequate headroom . |
| 23 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 24 | John believes there should be tougher sentences for violent criminals , rather than clogging up the jails with those who object to the poll tax . |
| 25 | Some party members are already disssatisfied with Mr Mieczyslaw Rakowski , who became leader only in August , for the way he went immediately to Moscow when the party was in trouble rather than work out a Polish solution . |
| 26 | And rather than iron out the problems , the Government is intending to add to them if the latest secondary legislation Consultation Paper — Permitted Use Rights In The Countryside — is anything to go by . |
| 27 | Councils argued that rather than run down the home-help service it was better to charge those who could afford to pay and keep the total level of service . |
| 28 | Rather than cutting out a whole range of foods , concentrate on the foods that are known to be problematic in eczema : milk , eggs , beef , chicken , food additives , oranges , lemons and other citrus fruits . |