Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been anticipated that several of the governors appointed by Congress ( I ) would be replaced by the new government , but rather than make selective changes of those appointees of the former regime the government decided to ask all governors to resign with the intention of reinstating some of them later . |
| 2 | This rationalization for state intervention on efficiency grounds presupposes that government can determine the socially desirable rate of investment and innovation , and that it can take a dispassionate , long-term view of these investment possibilities , rather than make short-run responses to the demands of political interests . [ … ] |
| 3 | To understand and enjoy Versailles , several days are necessary : rather than make several trips from a Paris base itself , it is better to stay in the town . |
| 4 | Nor do examinations in arts subjects help , for these press assignments into preordained formulae rather than liberate innate ideas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Like the Dragoons on the pasture , Ziegler had retreated rather than face unequal odds . |
| 7 | Fellow sufferers move uncomfortably away rather than face similar embarrassment . |
| 8 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 9 | In Bulgaria , some Christians allowed themselves to be manipulated by the State , rather than face severe hardship or persecution . |
| 10 | Wholesale and retail deposits command different interest rates partly because of the relative administrative convenience of handling wholesale funds on a large scale rather than handling large numbers of small deposits . |
| 11 | But rather than offer more praise , we would like to offer something else . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was not quite the act of immediate robbery it may sound ; rather than dispossessing local people of much-cherished common rights , it merely reinforced the long-drawn-out process of their gradual erosion . |
| 14 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The fact that changes are being contemplated might illustrate to the directors of RWC the folly of arriving at such arrangements in cabals rather than conducting open draws — which are more exciting and include seeding to prevent geographical or quality imbalances . |
| 17 | Love reports he improved his putting immeasurably by simply using one ball on the putting green and putting around the clock , rather than stroke six balls at one hole . |
| 18 | To do the project justice and allow time for the respondents ' concerns to be dealt with , this amount of time is required rather than sending all surveys out in one block . |
| 19 | Bonington , by contrast , worked almost entirely within existing visual traditions , perfecting rather than expanding long-established conventions of rendering landscape . |
| 20 | Rather than using analogue voltages the servos operate with digital pulses of varying width to form a pulse width locked loop . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | OSF business area manager for user environments , Cathy Betz , admits ‘ corporations are starting to move toward high-quality off-the-shelf Motif software rather than using homegrown versions compiled from source code . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Children talk about size as ‘ big ’ rather than using finer definitions like ‘ tall ’ or ‘ wide ’ or ‘ long ’ . |
| 25 | Peer to Peer networks ( P2P ) allow all the machines on them to share files printers and other bits and bobs with each other , rather than using dedicated machines to provide all of these facilities centrally . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In works such as ‘ Scylla ’ Colquhoun 's use of the female body as a means to escape rather than emphasise sexual distinctions foreshadows the work of artists such as Helen Chadwick and Cindy Sherman who emphasise the multiple , uncategorisable self . |
| 29 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 30 | Rather than risking poor accuracy with your loose feed or grondbait , an open end feeder can prove more effective at long range . |