Example sentences of "[verb] rather than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because this treatment is a holistic therapy , the person as a whole will be treated rather than a specific problem area and this treatment often involves a combination of techniques , such as dietary therapy , water treatment , hot or cold water packs and massage . |
| 2 | Anyone who wanted to fight a battle to keep a right to report rather than a statutory duty can forget it . |
| 3 | As a result , the slug hit Lomax low in his right side , inflicting a painful flesh wound rather than a fatal chest shot . |
| 4 | But they can be slow to use , and many experienced users prefer the keyboard shortcuts they provide rather than the laborious use of mouse and pull-down menus . |
| 5 | These issues implied that a CPIS should be designed rather than a manual system . |
| 6 | At the same time , whether ‘ collaboration ’ always implies ‘ critical estrangement ’ is , for music as for film , a question to be answered rather than a necessary conclusion from the premises . |
| 7 | Using a fake scent for the hounds to track rather than a live fox would take the blood out of this sport and opposition would cease . |
| 8 | Before the trade took off I bought a small font ( of the splashing rather than the total immersion variety ) for 20 crisp oncers ; now you 'd need to check your savings before indulging in a piece of granite . |
| 9 | It 's a question of how you dance round them I suspect rather than the actual pole . |
| 10 | Rather than continually allocate and reallocate memory as different words are processed , an array is used rather than a dynamic list for storing the information . |
| 11 | The most obvious distinguishing feature of the experiment by Hall and Honey is that an appetitive reinforcer was used rather than the electric shock of the conditioned suppression procedure . |
| 12 | The decrease in mortality in the Minnessota study may relate to the high percentage of colonoscopies performed rather than the faecal occult blood testing per se and if so , lends support to the concept of endocsopic screening as proposed by Atkin . |
| 13 | You settle down more quickly in a place you know rather than a new place where you need time to get used to the seating , the lighting , the visual distractions . |
| 14 | Delay rather than a deviant pattern to language development is reported and 3-year-olds have been found to be 5–8 months behind in their language norms ( Jerger et al . |
| 15 | Little wonder that the savage Saxons regarded Christianity as a Frankish method of suppression and control rather than a true religion in its own right . |
| 16 | To a growing number of health professionals it was self-evident that Israel 's priority was the application of a system which ensured dependence and control rather than the good health of the community . |
| 17 | The conditions for sustained growth outlined in the autumn statement appear to be based on the idea of a revival in consumer spending rather than an investment-led recovery . |
| 18 | If there must be compromise because people are divided about justice , then the compromise must be external , not internal ; it must be compromise about which scheme of justice to adopt rather than a compromised scheme of justice . |
| 19 | And they get very uptight if they get erm too much and then it 's reduced rather than the other way round . |
| 20 | How much more pertinent is this observation when applied to sculpture rather than the two-dimensional illusionism of painting . |
| 21 | My work is based on things remembered or imagined rather than the real world around me . |
| 22 | The aim of the game being to find out ways in which they do things better than you do rather than the other way around . |
| 23 | At the very least , it would mean that the real issues are debated rather than the trivial detail of statistics and history . |
| 24 | If you need a sine wave rather than a square wave , you can add the shaping circuit ( reference ) . |
| 25 | But even when consent is given a more positive content , and a definite " yes " is required rather than the mere absence of " no " , it remains an indelibly passive concept . |