Example sentences of "rather [subord] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The order for discovery is often the point of no return for the plaintiff in a libel action : it is the stage at which some prefer to discontinue rather than to open their files . |
| 5 | Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards . |
| 6 | All the rhetoric about redoubling efforts to fulfil the plan or striding confidently towards the future in imitation of the Great Leader was intended in practice to pacify the people rather than to stimulate them . |
| 7 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 8 | If , however , we look at the hidden psychological level , we can begin to see that the basic purpose of the transaction was to reject advice rather than to receive it . |
| 9 | Television companies may to prefer to err on the safe side rather than to put their profits at risk by incurring sanctions of this order . |
| 10 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 11 | Freud 's psychology belongs to the kind which seeks to understand human behaviour rather than to explain it on a scientific basis ; that is , it is verstehende psychology rather than erklärende psychology . |
| 12 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |
| 13 | As with values , it is probably best to assess your opponent 's objectives rather than to ask him for them . |
| 14 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 15 | A widespread insistence remained , however , that such action should be designed to stimulate and supplement self and mutual help and charity rather than to replace it . |
| 16 | It 's a measure of their commitment to the cause of good design that their paramount concern is to make a page whose information can be readily absorbed , rather than to devise one for which the reader might need sunglasses . |
| 17 | The lesson , I think , there is to pick a course that will create the sort of environment in which performance can be maximised , rather than to pick something which appeared to have more vocational use , but may not be as good for the individual student as a course that he or she will enjoy . |
| 18 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 19 | Unskilled activity is to do everything rather than to do nothing . |
| 20 | But Ceauşescu preferred to terrify his opponents into silence and conformity rather than to kill them . |
| 21 | Many ex-professionals prefer to open pubs or manage Swindon Town rather than to ease themselves into retirement by playing non-League football . |
| 22 | A spirit level is a must , and it 's a good idea to have one reserved for this job , rather than to use your smaller ‘ indoor ’ level , since it will inevitably get knocked around a bit and gradually become covered in mortar . |
| 23 | ( It is important at each stage to take the time to study the effect of the different types of light upon your chosen image rather than to use your mind to tell you what is happening . ) |
| 24 | Throughout their secondary school careers , pupils are often persuaded to repeat their teachers ' opinions rather than to develop their own points of view . |
| 25 | In short , the social debate on evacuation probably served to reinforce existing analyses of working-class poverty rather than to change them : for conservative social observers , it confirmed their view that the bulk of the problems were caused by an incorrigible underclass of personally inadequate ‘ cultural orphans ’ for whom a Welfare State could do little . |
| 26 | Heavily influenced by reading H. G. Wells and Thomas Henry Huxley , he resolved to write about science rather than to practise it . |
| 27 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 28 | Conversely , it was theoretically to the advantage of the French kings to have the Plantagenets as feudal inferiors , rather than to expel them from their remaining continental possessions . |
| 29 | But this seems a unique case ; and while other towns may have had their equivalents of Ajdabiya 's tinned milk lawsuit , most places seemed to practice autonomy rather than to assert it . |
| 30 | Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment . |