Example sentences of "rather [subord] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easy to load and difficult to crash software is vital in a multi-work station class , as it releases the teacher to provide intellectual guidance rather than simply providing the services of a technician . |
| 2 | In this context , we may recall that Althusser , rather than simply criticizing the notion of history as a totality as Foucault often tended to do , argued for the rearticulation of different histories within a decentred totality , on the assumption that history can not do without one . |
| 3 | Moreover , rather than simply reflecting a stronger relationship between risk and memory at higher levels of risk , the relationship visible in Figure 4.6 actually has both a negative and a positive component . |
| 4 | The correspondence , leaked to Labour 's Trade spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , discloses for the first time that Lord Young appeared to plan with Professor Roland Smith , chairman of British Aerospace , to hide the figures rather than simply leaving the information to be ‘ scattered ’ in obscure documents in the hope that Parliament would not notice it . |
| 5 | Such institutions would also need to encourage diversity in output rather than simply encouraging the ‘ artistic and the worthy ’ . |
| 6 | The Council will be particularly interested in pilot proposals which further enhance the Development Programme rather than simply duplicate the work of either the 1988 pilots or central developments planned to take place during session 1988–89 . |
| 7 | Hence rather than simply investigate the ability of a tag to follow other tags , it also incorporates the ability of the tag to precede it 's successors . |
| 8 | ‘ And I 'd adopt , rather than not have a family at all . |
| 9 | She was delighted rather than otherwise to have an extra visitor , and she chattered throughout the excellent dinner , preventing Robbie from concentrating on the fascinating conversation going on between Fen and the rector . |
| 10 | The petition calls on the watchdog to ‘ force Welsh Water to take action sooner rather than later to upgrade the sewage works . ’ |
| 11 | If the mens rea principle and the principle of proof are objectives worthy of a rational and humane system of criminal law they ought to be used critically to assess the achievement of the total system rather than circularly to select an acceptable portion of the criminal law . |
| 12 | Rather than immediately repealing the existing Informatics Law of 1984 , however , the government decided to abolish it when it expires in 1992 . |
| 13 | At some point , you will probably have to write out your own version of other people 's ideas in the form of paraphrase or summary embedded in your own work ; so it could be argued that you should do the rewriting from the outset , as you take your notes , in an effort to get at the ideas behind the words rather than just repeating the words themselves . |
| 14 | for me and I think it might be rather than just record an apology for her absence , I think we should just put in something , just to say that we 're that we are very sad |
| 15 | Make a point of trying to keep absolutely straight rather than just correcting a swing when it happens . |
| 16 | She 's alright yeah , well I , I bought her a book but it 's one of these , it 's like a talking book a Disney one , it 's got like a keyboard down the side and you press certain pads and it makes a noise and I thought oh rather than just getting an ordinary book , I thought that would be quite good |
| 17 | This includes improving the face of social work through better professional procedure rather than just portraying a positive media image that has no substance . |
| 18 | The market makes it possible for the peasant to grow and sell cash crops , rather than just maintaining a subsistence economy and therefore to produce a surplus . |
| 19 | Listening alertly is trying to understand what people are saying rather than just hearing the sounds that someone makes . |
| 20 | If you 're likely to be tackling full-scale plumbing installation work rather than just mending the occasional dripping tap , it will pay you to collect some specialist hand tools . |
| 21 | What , what we need to do we 've got a handout for you on this so you can spend more time looking at yourself , or what you need to do is you need to compare your scores against those rather than just take the highest one . |
| 22 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 23 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 24 | Erm , I would like to propose , I 'm not sure correct form , that we minute this council 's support and appreciation for the work of the county archivist , rather than just note the report . |
| 25 | To my mind the answer is simple : when a critical approach is accepted as a legitimate element of social studies teaching ( and surely a critical approach is not one which is to be avoided ) then textbooks will be obliged to present alternatives , rather than just describing the sexist norm and failing to evaluate it . |
| 26 | Rather than just giving a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to a carefully put question from the interviewer the informant can control much more the direction of the discussion and can therefore decide what is or is not relevant to a particular situation . |
| 27 | That is , rather than automatically re-entering the tree after a word ending , the path could continue through the tree establishing a close correspondence between certain words , independently of syntactic and semantic processing . |
| 28 | Chamorro favoured a measured approach to the piñata issue and an " integral solution " , which would promote national reconciliation rather than further alienating the Sandinistas , whose 39 delegates had boycotted the National Assembly " indefinitely " in June over the affair [ see ibid ] . |
| 29 | Most dealers — invariably male and calling themselves middlemen , consultants or businessmen — tend to keep their dealings quiet and work on a commission basis rather than actually buying the hardware themselves . |
| 30 | Hence , rather than actually store the string accommodation ladder in a tree , it is necessary only to store the integers 2049 12467 . |