Example sentences of "rather than [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try opening windows to freshen the air , rather than reaching for sprays and toilet blocks |
| 2 | She has sought to highlight the positive ethical and aesthetic implications of Victorian science as they appear in literature ( rather than looking for further ammunition for what she calls the sterile and artificial battle of literature against science ) . |
| 3 | Rather than looking for formal ‘ truth conditions ’ in an utterance , Rommetveit prefers to start from H. James ' point ‘ we trade on each other 's truths ’ ( Rommetveit , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 5 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 6 | The argument is , and I accept the fact , that bowlers probably prefer their keepers standing back taking catches rather than looking for rare leg-side stumping opportunities . ’ |
| 7 | The project , established in tandem with a similar effort mounted by the US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency , aims to encourage business to monitor its entire production process rather than looking for piecemeal solutions . |
| 8 | Such macho tendencies are potentially limiting , rather than enriching for the boys who read such stories , and serve to perpetuate the myth of the ‘ boys do n't cry ’ syndrome . |
| 9 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 10 | Rather than achieving for the sheer stimulation , or intrinsic worth of the achievement , they are driven in a never-ending competition ‘ to be someone ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Blunkett says : ‘ A modest but proper wage would be paid and schemes would be specifically developed rather than substituting for existing work . |
| 12 | Rather than striving for an impossible , and ultimately sterile , objectivity , scholars will increasingly need to follow Mary Louise Pratt 's example in admitting their own ideological commitments in order to promote the development of research . |
| 13 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 14 | Bright young engineers from rival firms are attracted to Keyence by the chance to do their own research , rather than labouring for years under grey-haired supervisors . |
| 15 | We could become a country of citizens , not subjects , striving for excellence rather than settling for second best . |
| 16 | This occurs when a firm continually has to ‘ look over its shoulder ’ and concentrate on short-term performance targets in order to try and maintain its share price , rather than planning for the future . |
| 17 | Rather than dying for a reason she does n't comprehend . ’ |
| 18 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 19 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 20 | Rather than waiting for more individual tenants to bring the same problem , it would be more efficient for the bureau to alert the local authority concerned and to explore with interested clients the possibility of a tenants ' association . |
| 21 | Are you willing to be loving towards yourself and others , to seek love by being love , rather than waiting for others to love you first ? |
| 22 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 23 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 24 | The animal can anticipate them , rather than waiting for direct evidence . |
| 25 | For example , some local authorities produce their financial statements very quickly ; on the other hand , they are able to do this by including more estimates of accrued expenditure rather than waiting for invoices to come in . |
| 26 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 27 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 28 | The Bank of England has , for many years , sought to make this a continuous operation and it seeks to buy stock approaching maturity rather than waiting for legal redemption dates . |
| 29 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 30 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |