Example sentences of "rather [conj] [verb] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean wished that he had gone down to Birdie Mac 's and knocked on the door for a bar of Kit-Kat , anything rather than face these two . |
| 2 | In other words , rather than set these antithetical approaches against each other as one might have expected , Foucault suggests that they are part of the same mutation . |
| 3 | Rather than categorise these structures I shall describe briefly just one community , the Patels , and by tracing the changes in their dowry system , follow the changes in the position of Patel women . |
| 4 | It has been claimed that fundholding ‘ has revealed rather than created these variations . ’ |
| 5 | Carrie would have died rather than say these things but Nick would n't be embarrassed : he could say them without turning a hair ! |
| 6 | But rather than address these basic problems , politicians look for the quick ‘ fix ’ — anything that sounds good in a sound-bite will do . |
| 7 | Monsignor Garlato , chairman of the body which advises the Vatican on its artistic patrimony , has told a conference in Perugia that the Church should sell at least ten percent of the 95,000 ecclesiastical buildings in Italy rather than see these redundant places of worship fall down . |
| 8 | My reason for dyeing , rather than painting these floats is because they will take more shotting . |
| 9 | Irving has demonstrated the tendency of investigators to employ interrogation techniqes likely to accentuate rather than ameliorate these and other distorting factors . |
| 10 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |