Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 2 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 3 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 4 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 5 | It was a vote of faith in Draper 's musical judgement rather than a demonstration of Branson 's own , but the decision was the right one . |
| 6 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 7 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |
| 8 | The other staff member co-ordinated the feedback , making it plain that , for these purposes , the repetition of points could be taken as evidence of the strength of shared experience rather than a lack of incisiveness on the part of the spokespersons . |
| 9 | Novell is handling the transaction as a purchase rather than a pooling of interests and will take a one-time write-off of up to $250m the quarter the deal closes . |
| 10 | Taking controlled deep breaths will calm you down and get you into a more relaxed rhythm rather than a state of uncontrolled panic . |
| 11 | When ‘ positivism ’ is so construed , it is opposed to realism and insists that theory is a guide to prediction rather than a source of substantive hypotheses about what could not , even in principle , be observed . |
| 12 | Their determination was to confront their oppressors and overturn their prerogatives rather than a sharing of power , even by mutual agreement . |
| 13 | Even Professor Plant , author of the most thoughtful party political analysis of the concept , concluded an article entitled ‘ Labour 's sights on rights ’ in The Times in June 1990 with a whimper rather than a bang of citizenship . |
| 14 | It held that God is the Creator ex nihilo thus implying a divide rather than a continuum of being between man 's soul and God . |
| 15 | I like them like that because what I tend to do with so I like them that big because then I can cut them up into sticks , stick them in the fridge , then if I feel like being naughty not ever so naughty because I 'm nibbling at carrots rather than a packet of crisps or something . |
| 16 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 17 | Again , it must be remembered , the courts exercise a power of review rather than a power of appeal . |
| 18 | And DOS word processing has got it 's priorities right — you get a clean screen , devoted to your words rather than a multitude of toolbars and menus . |
| 19 | This dismal monumentalism is the apotheosis of impersonality , a confirmation rather than a denial of the mindset which led to such slaughter in the first place , though the architect intended no irony . |
| 20 | ( It 's just possible that the youngsters were expressing a scientific talent rather than a dislike of the press , for their is no denying that McGinty 's ample form would produce an immediate uplift in the balloon . ) |
| 21 | They should be encouraged by the tax system and give from a desire to share or spread pleasure rather than a sense of guilt or duty . |
| 22 | They constitute agendas for research rather than a collection of findings and substantiated theories of social life . |
| 23 | Asquith 's 1915 government was only halfway to coalition ; it was in fact a coalition of parties rather than a coalition of men , and it was run so as to maximize continuity . |
| 24 | Insurance cover comes into force only when a certificate of insurance , confirming the terms of the cover , is actually received . |
| 25 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 26 | And there was a bonny pantomime once when a couple of grouse went missing and Uncle and Sam got into trouble . |
| 27 | The method used in this book to define a unit of goodness , is plausible and , to some extent , in line with scientific practice whereby when a unit of any sort is thus defined , it first becomes accepted , and then quite soon it is unquestionably ‘ true ’ . |
| 28 | The domain of a functional is the set , or space , of all admissible functions rather than a region of coordinate space . |
| 29 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 30 | We sought to investigate the hypothesis that episodes of spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux cause reflex UOS relaxations , which may be the mechanism of regurgitation rather than a deficiency of basal UOS tone . |