Example sentences of "[adj] rather [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 3 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 4 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 5 | Thus , there are policies which may lie within the present powers of an existing local authority , although these form part of the proper subject of Chapter 10 rather than a discussion of strategy . |
| 6 | As part of the denial of their own " family disease " they may believe that they themselves or the way in which they attempt to help others is what is inadequate rather than the capacity of the primary sufferer to receive the message of recovery . |
| 7 | Of course actual authors are dialectically difficult to classify and my examples are fairly arbitrarily drawn , the diagram being illustrative rather than an exercise in exegesis . |
| 8 | The additional band migrating between N-Oct 3 and 5 was also observed in brain extracts after longer exposure , perhaps from binding of a cofactor to the N-Oct 5 complex rather than a dimer of N-Oct 5 which is expected to migrate slower . |
| 9 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 10 | Looking at him , do you seem to see a 25-year-old rather than a player of 35 ? |
| 11 | point base of ten rather than a power of two ; normally the exponent is still held in binary format . |
| 12 | Bell goes on to make explicit a relationship between monolingual stylistic variation and bilingual behaviour : having two discrete languages available rather than a continuum of styles simply throws into sharper focus the factors which operate on monolingual style shift . |
| 13 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |