Example sentences of "[subord] use [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could use a bike , walk , or run rather than use a car , bus , or train . |
| 2 | It is preferable to smack the dog with your hand rather than use a rolled-up newspaper which the dog may see as an extension of the game , especially if it gets excited and a tug-of-war ensues . |
| 3 | Rather than use a variety of notions such as recoverability , predictability , and saliency to explain givenness , Chafe suggests that the key to givenness lies in the notion of consciousness : |
| 4 | When this happened I used to make up elaborate and probably unconvincing stories about car crashes , burns , skin grafts , incompetent surgeons and so on , anything rather than use the word ‘ disease ’ . |
| 5 | However , he sought to establish University Extra-Mural Groups or Societies rather than use the County Federation of WEA branches in the promotion of extension classes through gaining support of Women 's Institutes and other voluntary organisations . |
| 6 | He asked if residents wanted a new cemetery in Alresford , rather than use the Winchester cemetery . |
| 7 | ‘ It is an invitation to hoof the ball forward rather than use the goalkeeper to play the ball from the back , as Tottenham prefer to do . ’ |
| 8 | Rather than use the document-driven approach as the main approach to data analysis , I use this method to verify the model obtained from the entity-relationship approach . |
| 9 | I 'd decided to pay cash rather than use the PKB Amex card as that would have given the game away as to why we were there . |
| 10 | The reasons for using some form of external assistance in recruiting key people are often quite clear : the confidentiality , the know-how and the experience are all obvious factors ; why bring in a headhunter rather than use an advertising consultant is sometimes more difficult to explain . |
| 11 | Rather than use an arbitrary measure of commission costs ( since these can vary according to the exact size of the deal and the market makers spread ) we have attempted to capture the competitive effects associated with changes in transactions costs by using a measure of turnover on the UK Stock Exchange . |