Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than continue to carry this burden , he suggested that the Russian Republic might itself consider seceding from the union . |
| 2 | I spend most of my life trying to ingratiate myself into a sick society rather than trying to smash that society . |
| 3 | As Appendix II suggests , these anxieties may tend to narrow people 's choice of type of credit , so that they stick to — possibly unduly expensive — forms that they are familiar with , rather than trying to find some cheaper type . |
| 4 | Thirdly , because of the constraints imposed not only by external factors but sometimes by the design problem itself , practitioners may engage in a complex set of trade-offs , rather than trying to optimize any one aspect of what they are doing . |
| 5 | It is this fact , that needs to be recognised by the California Regulators so that hybrids can be encouraged rather than penalised to give more zero emission miles of total use than would be the case with a battery-only car produced in lower volumes . |
| 6 | I think it is much healthier for a young artist to be treated like that , rather than told play this or that in a particular way . |
| 7 | They may prefer to take action against their minority who refuse to share rather than continuing to fight such innocuous users of the countryside . |
| 8 | After all , the sentence is one of the building blocks of a piece of prose , so it makes sense to be able to work with whole sentences rather than having to highlight each word within one manually . |
| 9 | Rather than try to combine all individual reports of unmet need into a county-wide planning process , the council has split its records into two types : the individual care assessment , where care managers decide for themselves how to record needs , and a more formal , anonymous sample of 10 per cent of service users , which can be used for planning . |
| 10 | Rather than attempt to review all the conflicting theories about such issues and about how exchange rates affect adjustment and growth , we focus on two factors that have a direct impact on the relationships with foreign investors . |
| 11 | We thus have to consider a typical evolution rather than attempt to cover all possibilities . |