Example sentences of "rather [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writing by artists takes the form of instruction ; in every period manuals on how to do it , whether drawing , making sculpture or other technical tasks are found , though their incidence is irregular , and such treatises are often the work of minor artists , rather than the great ; Leonardo is an exception . |
| 2 | Barr 's European equivalents flourished in the 1950s rather than the 1930s — Jean Cassou at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris , Wilhelm Sandberg at the Stedlijk in Amsterdam , Pontus Hulten at the Modern Museum in Stockholm and then at the Pompidou Centre in Paris . |
| 3 | An important component of this religious renewal was its individualistic orientation ; it was the individual rather than the group or its activity in the world which was the subject of this religious activity . |
| 4 | ‘ The software package selected for implementation should be seen as the vehicle for a solution rather than the solution itself . |
| 5 | Think of a pint of beer , or two glasses of wine , as the maximum for one day , rather than the minimum . |
| 6 | Thrust your lower foot out with an active push , rather than the passive snap used in some styles . |
| 7 | However , I would suggest that you subsequently attack employing the ball of the foot rather than the injured instep . |
| 8 | ‘ Should n't a familiar sit on the shoulder rather than the waist ? ’ suggested a new voice behind Maggie . |
| 9 | For instance the strength of the priming effect suggests that covert recognition reflects the otherwise intact operation of the normal face recognition system when it is cut off from some centre of consciousness ( Young and De Haan , 1988 ) rather than the operation of a separate , subsidiary face recognition system . |
| 10 | Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts . |
| 11 | And though she would never admit to it , I was sure there were moments , however fleeting and however infrequent , when she wished she 'd been with the Church of England , rather than the Roman Church . |
| 12 | Slightly shorter in length , and with a 90sq in headsize rather than the 95 and 105 which are currently the norm , the Challenge 26 is also lighter and specially balanced to suit female and junior players . |
| 13 | Instead , take an extra step nearer the ball if necessary and get down low by using the legs and knees rather than the waist . |
| 14 | Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that from April 1992 , 60% rather than the current 50% of Government housing finance will be allocated on a discretionary basis following civil servants ' assessment of councils ' performance . |
| 15 | Allowance will be made for contingencies , but these are to be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 16 | Although the author pays lip-service to the idea of climbing as a form of meditation and the reward lying in the process rather than the achievement , the main thrust seems to lie in the opposite direction , in the acquisition of things . |
| 17 | These usually come with an Edison screw ( ES ) connection , rather than the more common bayonet cap ( BC ) with the two familiar side pins . |
| 18 | It is aftermath rather than the novel itself . |
| 19 | One reason for this , rather than the use of binary data , is that it allows the file to be sent via communications channels coded for 7-bit plus parity . |
| 20 | Ill-defined regions of the data , rational equations , unjustified polynomial fits ( particularly for extrapolations ) , failure to examine data at low X and Y values sufficiently , reversing X and Y values , and as the manual puts it , ‘ trusting numbers rather than the evidence of your own eyes ’ are some others . |
| 21 | These phrases , and others like them , have been debated and pondered , interpreted and reinterpreted , as though they were the formulations of the great philosophers of the past , like Plato or Kant , rather than the work of a living thinker in mid-career . |
| 22 | It is , however , the philosopher rather than the joker who is in evidence in Imre Salusinsky 's interview with Derrida , conducted in 1985 . |
| 23 | In literature teaching the emphasis is on shared experience rather than the conveying of information ; a lecture is supposed to provide knowledge , elucidation , or interpretation of texts on the assumption that the auditors have already read them . |
| 24 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 25 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 26 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 27 | The sociologists of art who discuss music have to restrict themselves to the conditions in which it is performed , produced , or received , rather than the music itself . |
| 28 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 29 | He treated reading as a team effort , getting them to read the Daily Mirror rather than the dull , babyish books on offer . |
| 30 | But after the massacre , as his city raged and mourned , his expressions of distress were encoded in the Mandarin of Whitehall , rather than the Cantonese of Hong Kong . |