Example sentences of "and rather [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 2 | And rather than alleviating any muddle we might get into they generally add to it . |
| 3 | Amdahl Corp believes that its Huron applications development and production system is a winner , and rather than leave it stranded on the mainframe under MVS , it is taking it along in the direction the market is moving with two new versions , one that runs under its UTS implementation of Unix System V on its mainframes , the other for Unix workstations , the first version of the latter being for 80486-based machines under Unix . |
| 4 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 5 | And rather than sit and eat chocolate I can eat apples and fruit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And rather than make it into a viable erm , organization . |
| 8 | on the one hand the transport federation and the confederation support the demands of the railway sector at the negotiating table , and on the other hand , let us say , they also call for prudence and moderation when they realise that these demands may not be achievable , and rather than lead people over the precipice and into more strikes that will not have positive outcomes , they recommend the adoption of an approach based on increased dialogue and the moderation of demands . |
| 9 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 10 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 11 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 12 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 13 | Chips & Technologies Inc , San Jose , has decided that the iAPX-86 microprocessor market is getting too crowded , and rather than go head to head with Intel Corp and what is becoming a horde of clonemakers , it has decided to redirect its Super386 design to the single chip processor and embedded control markets . |
| 14 | Now you have to go to Liverpool and rather than go over each day and gerr a quarter , I 'd rather buy a gram and keep hold of it . |
| 15 | Was it the sort of chemist that erm was it the sort of chemist that you 'd go in if you 'd got something the matter with you and rather than go to the doctor , they would sort of dole out something for you ? |
| 16 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 17 | My tracer passed in line with the machine but behind it , and rather than stop firing , I pulled back steadily on my control column until the tracers crept along the rear of the machine and into the cockpit . |
| 18 | They rarely ate meat , and rather than consume butter , milk , meat , poultry and eggs , preferred to send any such produce to market . |
| 19 | Both Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury were opposed to the marriage and rather than give up his proposed marriage , Edward abdicated on 11th . |
| 20 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 21 | It is claimed to draw 920,000 two- or three-dimensional vectors per second , and comes with one EISA slot , and rather than tread on its partner 's toes , Samsung hopes to build complementary markets in imaging and scientific visualisation , going entirely through indirect channels . |
| 22 | And rather than viewing the party 's triumph in October as an expression of the will of the Russian masses , they see it as the product of manipulation of an unstable situation by an élite group of fanatical revolutionaries . |
| 23 | But in Britain we equate acknowledging man 's need for instant sex with approving of it , and rather than have that levelled at us , we reject the idea of licensed brothels . |
| 24 | And rather than have police officers coming on duty , and saying , Okay , you take this beat , you take that . |
| 25 | The study of the voice what we say and how we say it I then introduced you to if you like advanced body language and based on the work that Marion North did and rather than take an individual movement of the body we took a cluster and how many aspects where there to cluster I wonder there were three were n't there . |
| 26 | The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender , Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns . |
| 27 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 28 | It says it works in accordance with our normal procedures except and rather than put the exceptions for access in that procedure , . |
| 29 | And rather than depicting various hues of political opinion , the new murals make an environmental statement . |
| 30 | But there were still uncertainties surrounding the notion , and rather than try to define it further , the new offence dispenses with the requirement of breach of the peace altogether , and replaces it with ‘ unlawful violence . ’ |