Example sentences of "rather [subord] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists . |
| 2 | When faced with a request for a garden seat , similar to the one on a recent DIY front cover , I searched high and low for one which I could buy , rather than make myself . |
| 3 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 4 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |
| 5 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 6 | But we usually work it into the show format somewhere , rather than make it a part of the news . |
| 7 | And rather than make it into a viable erm , organization . |
| 8 | Untypically for his age , Chris preferred to play most of his shots to the off rather than drag everything round to leg . |
| 9 | She would make the disaster serve her rather than drag her under . |
| 10 | ‘ So , rather than drag her all the way back here for just five minutes or so , I thought we 'd go there . |
| 11 | Quinn 's expert manager will be one who recognizes that he has to guide the organization rather than lead it too definitively . |
| 12 | Now they send a child rather than face us . ’ |
| 13 | But you 'd die rather than face it again . ’ |
| 14 | I decided it was best to avoid trouble , rather than face it when it comes . |
| 15 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 16 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 17 | Where educational broadcasts are used , in the majority of cases it will be better to record a programme , rather than watch it live , not just for the convenience of the school timetable , but because video , as opposed to a live broadcast , is a more versatile educational tool . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ In such circumstances prospective vendors have chosen to carry on working rather than offer their properties for sale at lower values . |
| 20 | Rather than offer it to them on a first-come , first-served basis , we offer it just to new business coming in . |
| 21 | Bitrex is the bitterest non-toxic substance known , and even a tiny drop will encourage children to spit it out rather than swallow it . |
| 22 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |
| 23 | Both David and Steve will have objective views rather than tell me what I want to hear . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | go sit in , go in a corner here , rather than wet his pants . |
| 27 | if it requires a recall of emotion , it is often sufficient merely to switch on the emotion rather than elicit it ( as when you trip over the cat ! ) . |
| 28 | The frog relies on its fly detectors so much that it probably can not see a motionless insect , and will starve rather than eat one . |
| 29 | It is productive to agree these rules with children rather than dictate them . |
| 30 | However , it is also clear that such projections can only inform policymaking rather than dictate it and there remains a need for clear national guidelines on the provision of places at all levels of education . |