Example sentences of "and [verb] rather [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the tunes are noodling , familiar and limp rather than languid . |
| 2 | On the other hand , churches with poor workmanship , of small size , and altered rather than rebuilt , may well indicate poor localities , or a lack of interest in the church . |
| 3 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 4 | This is not only because of the harmful effects they can have on the physical self but also because the need for them indicates a severe deficiency in the emotional self — a deficiency which needs to be helped and treated rather than disguised . |
| 5 | Some years ago , W. G. Hoskins argued that the Domesday Book entries for Devon referred to hamlets and farmsteads rather than villages , and that any particular vill comprised a whole series of villein farms . |
| 6 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 7 | Migraine , too , is followed by nausea and vomit rather as sin is followed by remorse . |
| 8 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 9 | It aims to elaborate and refine rather than overturn ; it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 10 | Conclusions about coping responses which have a protective effect against a wide range of events are more easily obtained when the events are likely to be associated with acute anxiety and fear rather than depression ( e.g. Jaremko , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 12 | Yet would it not be better to abandon this headlong errand and sleep rather than go out once more into the drenching darkness ? |
| 13 | A little more confidence and openness on both sides would inspire a little more confidence in those who want to see the differences met and resolved rather than quietly avoided . |
| 14 | Although by and large novices to the art of sevens , the Namibians — the worthy winners of the World Cup Sevens qualifying tournament in Catania , Sicily — provided a sample of the Southern African perception of the shortened version of the game : hard running , support and tackling rather than silky skill and stealth . |
| 15 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 16 | They inspired the efforts of Admirals D'Estaing and De Grasse in the War of the American Revolution to seize British West Indian islands and evade rather than destroy the fleets to which they were opposed . |
| 17 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 18 | Power is intensely fragmented and dispersed rather than being centred in a small group of party leaders as in a parliamentary system . |
| 19 | the use of silences and pauses rather than fillers and ‘ non-words ’ such as ‘ OK ’ , ‘ Right ’ , ‘ You know ’ |
| 20 | Use silences and pauses rather than fillers and non-words . |
| 21 | You can concentrate your attentions on the feel and fit rather than any corrective properties of the shoe . |
| 22 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 23 | But it is also a more general process describing the interactive skills of policemen and women : the knowledge of when and in what situations it is appropriate to show sympathy , tolerance , and understanding rather than aggression and force . |
| 24 | In corporatist reasoning elites collude and collaborate rather than compete . |
| 25 | Is the policy still to sit it out and wait rather than try and force your way into the prison ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I should be very reluctant to go back to anything like the old system , which gave a perverse incentive for landlords to provide board and lodging rather than other accommodation . |
| 28 | It looks at the ageing process with optimism and hope rather than despair . |
| 29 | The UK conversion to metric standards removed ambiguities from an area of international affairs because it was widely understood and accepted rather than because of any intrinsic merit . |
| 30 | Pain is the main indication for treatment , and the disease should be regarded as chronic and relapsing rather than as an acute phenomenon treatable by a single medical or surgical intervention . |