Example sentences of "rather [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | coast of Benbecula and S. Uist ( Ritchie , 1966 , 1979 , 1985 ; Currie , 1979 ) also suggest that the frequency of westerly storms must have been less prior to 4000 B.P. As Currie ( 1979 p. 227 ) suggests , ‘ the stumps remaining are not likely to be an indication of forest , but rather the evidence of such sheltered locations where small woods survived the climatic conditions , often in areas which are now submerged by the sea ’ . |
| 2 | In making these statements the church is not standing aloof from the unconverted instructing them on how they ought to live their lives rather the church is speaking to itself , holding before all its members the id the ideal of what we believe God has taught in his word about the way in which people ought to live . |
| 3 | There are strong grounds for limiting the sample size of the investigation because it is not the number of countries per se which is usually important , but rather the range of variation which they provide ( Walker , 1967 ) . |
| 4 | We refer to this ratio , or rather the ratio of the tangents of the two angles , as the vertical size ratio ( VSR ) . |
| 5 | Rather the expansion of the social services is the result of two major factors : ‘ ( i ) the requirement of the capitalist economy as mediated by the state structure and state policies ; ( ii ) the class balance of forces within capitalist society ’ . |
| 6 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 7 | Very often it is not the toy by itself that will provide a mathematical experience but rather the way in which it is being used either on its own or in conjunction with other things . |
| 8 | Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English . |
| 9 | For me to be autonomous , it is not sufficient that you leave me alone ; rather the way I am treated by you has a bearing on my autonomy , and reciprocally for you . |
| 10 | Indeed , Derrida 's quarrel with classical structuralism does not concern its Saussurean inspiration , but rather the way in which it has unwittingly betrayed the very principle on which the Saussurean revolution was founded . |
| 11 | The master manufacturers of Manchester wish that prices might always be high enough to enforce a general industry ; to keep the hands employed six days for a week 's work ; as they find that even one idle day , in the chance of it being a drunken one , damages all the other five , or rather the work of them . |
| 12 | Whichever theory is correct , we can only be sure of the distribution of the tiger today , or rather the day before yesterday . |
| 13 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 14 | ‘ You asked for this , ’ he commented , ‘ or rather the man you sent demanding an audience asked for it . ’ |
| 15 | Anon she was not placed in the royal vault ; rather the opportunity was taken to put her in the Villiers vault in 1776 when the neighbouring Percy vault was opened for the reception of the remains of the First Duchess of Northumberland . |
| 16 | Despite the many difficulties which would have to be faced in consolidating the hospitals only two of the twenty-four members of staff whom Best interviewed felt that there was little value in taking the study further : ‘ Rather the majority felt that the integration of Goodmayes and Claybury represented a tangible , largely desirable and far from impossible objective to achieve ’ . |
| 17 | He can then argue that once one has advanced beyond the superstition that all desire is for oneself having pleasure , one has no reason of principle for denying the apparent fact that some desire is directed at occurrences not involving oneself at all , but rather the welfare of others . |
| 18 | Recall from Figures 15–6 and 15–8 that the efficient quantity of pollution is not zero but rather the level at which the social marginal cost of cutting back pollution equals its social marginal benefit . |
| 19 | It is rather the kind of causal concomitant of the blow that has wholly to do with internal processes of tissue regeneration . |
| 20 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 21 | When used with the to infinitive , on the other hand , find denotes rather the discovery of a fact : ( 96 ) I measured the tail of the dead rat , and found it to be two yards long . |
| 22 | It was n't so much his words which comforted Cassie , but rather the tone in which they had been said . |
| 23 | In other cases , the previous reign of horror may have more recently ended and the name — or rather the nickname — will still be easily recalled by readers . |
| 24 | No woman needs this sort of product ; plain water is more than enough and all you are trying to do — or rather the company you are representing — is create a market where none exists . |
| 25 | Rather the company envisages the use of Object Cobol with object-oriented analysis and design , and an analyst will not go into the detail of strings and numbers , but simply view things like accounts and customers as objects . |
| 26 | However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes . |
| 27 | It is rather the development of a portfolio of projects at Bristol which merit investment on sound practical grounds . |
| 28 | It was rather the reputation of the individual master that brought the students than the particular location or city . |
| 29 | He never rehearsed the performance , but rather the technique of the music , leaving his emotional response to the inspiration of the concert and expecting a well-prepared orchestra to be entirely responsive to this . |
| 30 | He argues that intellectual work need not always be measured against immediate political ends ; rather the question to ask is what project is it undertaking , what problem is it analysing ? |