Example sentences of "rather [conj] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 3 | Heads , deputies and curriculum leaders shared rather than led each school 's preparations . |
| 4 | It has been claimed that fundholding ‘ has revealed rather than created these variations . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover , to claim that in allowing the patient to die , the doctor acted lawfully , because he omitted to do anything , rather than committed any act , is to overlook the obvious point that , depending on the particular circumstances , it may be the doctor 's duty to act , so that his failure to act by allowing death constituted a breach of duty . |