Sentence examples for let rather than from inspiring English sources

Those buying properties to let, rather than to live in, accounted for more than 40% of all new mortgages approved last year.

It said it was getting an increasing number of applications from homeowners in their late 40s and 50s – normally those with substantial amounts of equity –choosing to let rather than sell their homes.

Yet estate agent Knight Frank has calculated that nearly half the foreigners who've purchased £1m-plus properties in central London in the last year live in the UK, and bought to let rather than to leave.

But it's an excuse for a great deal of blood-letting rather than an occasion for ethical or political reflection.

Better let these, rather than the Achaeans, have them.

So, why not let evidence, rather than theory, guide policy?

They plan to let schools, rather than the state, determine selection policy.

… They can have the paradoxical effect of making the person who receives them feel let down rather than gratified".

On December 24th the Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the first draft of a bill that would let it, rather than the people, elect the president.

It's important to keep an open mind and let science, rather than our hopes or fears, decide the answer.

After the win, however, Taylor felt let down rather than elated.