Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than constructing new buildings which would be subject to planning control , existing buildings can be converted and the use of the land simply changed . |
| 2 | As for the idea of ‘ community ’ , they argued that the Council 's policy would undermine existing communities rather than create new ones . |
| 3 | Rather than plant new hedgerows , these rural pioneers continued to leave extensive ‘ shaws ’ , banks of trees and shrubs between the small fields . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rather than advocating new surveys , the research aims to improve the quality and range of information obtained using existing surveys and survey methods . |
| 6 | Furthermore , as the number of knowledge-based systems are growing , it makes sense to use pre-existing systems in co-operation , wherever possible , rather than developing new systems from scratch . |
| 7 | Even the economic stimulus package that Congress defeated last week , which contained nearly half a billion dollars for the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and other federal research agencies ( see right ) , would at best have strengthened existing programmes rather than charting new directions . |
| 8 | Refurbishment , maintenance and service work on existing lifts , rather than building new products are another way . |
| 9 | Rather than building new material and research collections , the Academy will coordinate access by its Fellows to these existing resources . |
| 10 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 11 | The legislation , which is the first of its kind in the common-law world , was seen as clarifying and putting the law beyond doubt , rather than making new law . |
| 12 | The encouragement of the growth of such networks , encompassing larger businesses , the education sector and other institutions ‘ tapping the many skills in the community ’ , is seen as a priority rather than introducing new measures or rationalising existing ones . |
| 13 | Shell argues that rather than introducing new requirements of dubious value , governments should enforce existing regulations to force sub-standard ships out of business . |
| 14 | Modern linguistics has taken an entirely different road , rejecting the historicist and evolutionist interests of the mid-nineteenth century perhaps with excessive violence , and to this extent the main development of philology in our period worked out known principles rather than anticipating new ones . |
| 15 | Maybe we are getting the business because of the recession : rather than doing new things , people want to sort out what is wrong with the old ones . ’ |
| 16 | Rhodium sales slipped back during the year as car companies utilised strategic stocks rather than purchase new metal . |