Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 32 | ‘ In such circumstances prospective vendors have chosen to carry on working rather than offer their properties for sale at lower values . |
| 33 | Rather than offer it to them on a first-come , first-served basis , we offer it just to new business coming in . |
| 34 | Eighteen months later , personal pensions were accepted and the new consensus was that the Government should save money by reducing the benefits of SERPS rather than abolishing it . |
| 35 | Bitrex is the bitterest non-toxic substance known , and even a tiny drop will encourage children to spit it out rather than swallow it . |
| 36 | The framework will therefore be better suited to simulating the consequences of different kinds of economic behaviour rather than determining what form economic behaviour has or is likely to take . |
| 37 | By constantly making the same mistake there is the danger that you are reinforcing and learning how to make the error rather than correcting it . |
| 38 | Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them . |
| 39 | In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them . |
| 40 | ‘ If you come across Amy , I think it would be best if you put her in touch with me rather than trying anything on your own . ’ |
| 41 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |
| 42 | Both David and Steve will have objective views rather than tell me what I want to hear . ’ |
| 43 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 44 | That that seems to be the most reasonable way of doing it , rather than sending it registered , |
| 45 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 46 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 47 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 48 | Williamson 's theory of the firm is an attempt , following Coase , to explain the existence and internal structure of firms rather than to take them for granted . |
| 49 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 50 | Please return them as soon as possible , rather than using them for storage . |
| 51 | Green was certainly unlucky , losing to Wales 's Mark Newton in a bout in which he admitted he was drawn into a slugging match rather than using his skills . |
| 52 | They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release . |
| 53 | Despite obvious Iranian links with our captors , Britain appeared determined only to exploit the better relationship with Iran for British companies seeking contracts there , rather than using it to secure our release . |
| 54 | Collect rainwater to use on the garden rather than using your hose . |
| 55 | If you ‘ give ’ the smell to the reader rather than using your own private shorthand , then the reader 's own nose will do the work . |
| 56 | you 're prospecting rather than using your current |
| 57 | She felt rather than saw him gazing round , trying to work out what had happened . |
| 58 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 59 | When I do have to evict an intruder , I 've discovered that it 's far better to pull the weeds out rather than hoe them . |
| 60 | And as a Portuguese Euro-minister claims that Britain 's oil may have to be controlled by the authorities in Brussels , Jacques Delors demands another £2bn and ERM-inspired interest rates force thousands on to the dole , how long will it be before one of our major political parties has the guts to campaign against the European Community in its present form , rather than sticking their collective heads in the merde and pretending that everything 's coming up roses ? |