Example sentences of "rather [subord] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most of the territories they occupied , the Prussians , by putting pressure on the peasantry to Germanise themselves , concentrated rather than diluted a Polish identity . |
| 2 | The 1983 general election result fueled rather than ended the controversy . |
| 3 | This decision started rather than ended the controversy about united action . |
| 4 | In other words , the decline in profits preceded rather than followed the expansion of the public sector as regards both employment and expenditure . |
| 5 | Something had punched her chest ; she felt the refrigeration unit of her suit cut in , she felt rather than heard the tearing , rippling , screaming boom of the explosion . |
| 6 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 7 | She sensed rather than heard the collective sigh of relief that went up as her acceptance rang round the studio just a moment before the signature tune flowed through the headphones , signalling the end of the programme . |
| 8 | Moreover , the Stewart kings ' lamentable habit of dying young had two consequences , both of which enhanced rather than diminished the strength and prestige of Scottish kingship . |
| 9 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 10 | Too often NatWest has followed rather than led the way in banking , and too often its strategy has been faulted in execution . |
| 11 | For the first time , a mentally handicapped child has been built into a programme about normal people living in normal lives , rather than made the subject of a sensational film or documentary . |
| 12 | For them the din increased rather than destroyed the intimacy of conversation . |
| 13 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 14 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union , these critics argue , was uninterested in Republican victory and unwilling to provide sufficient resources to make it possible ; to make matters worse , the anti-revolutionary policies and generally repressive conduct of the Communists , by robbing much of the population within Republican Spain of anything for which to fight , brought about massive demoralization and weakened rather than strengthened the bases of the anti-fascist struggle . |
| 16 | Second , by averaging the payments made to local authorities , the new arrangements loosened rather than strengthened the links between local authorities and businesses in their areas ( Midwinter and Mair 1987:97 — 102 ) . |
| 17 | Thus the implantation of the intendant system weakened rather than strengthened the hold of metropolitan Spain , by ending corrupt practices that had allowed creoles control of their own affairs , and by creating bitter rivalries between the new officials and their subordinates . |
| 18 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 19 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 20 | Despite hopes to the contrary , the war gradually worsened rather than alleviated the problems of the rural population . |
| 21 | But by a typical return , the anxiety and concern created rather than alleviated the ‘ problem ’ , for the incitement that Lyttleton so worried about was a product of middle-class obsessions themselves . |
| 22 | By 1919 Allen himself recognized that , in their often fanatical pursuit of principle , the absolutists had ‘ repelled ’ and ‘ muddled ’ public opinion , rather than opened the way for a broader peace politics . |
| 23 | These effective treatments , along with his rejection of blood-letting , purging and polypharmacy which weakened rather than helped the patient , gave homoeopathy the edge over orthodox therapy for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman and other hon. Gentlemen will know that those cases are still looked at fairly , but perhaps with the attitude that all the claimants were given a form and asked to sign their name at the bottom of the list , rather than submitted a carefully considered claim . |
| 25 | But the wild ducks carved by Alex Mair had been recognizably ducks , the piquant sauce , new to him , enhanced rather than dominated the taste of the birds , and the small mounds of creamed turnip and parsnip were an agreeable addition to green peas . |
| 26 | Rescheduling the debt has merely deferred rather than solved the problems of increasing internal efficiencies and domestic savings rates . |
| 27 | In an industry expanding in output and where technology increased rather than decreased the demand for adult male labour , it seems probable that this experience was matched on the country 's other coalfields . |
| 28 | So she forbore to do so altogether , even to Cedric , and as she lay in her bed that day , her arm now beginning to give her some considerable pain , she would willingly ( she knew ) have cracked two of her ribs rather than chipped a couple of her teeth . |