Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] rather [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore tends to be palliative rather than curative . |
| 2 | Orthodox medicines tend to be palliative rather than curative . |
| 3 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 4 | Their encounters , confined to a couple of uninformative scuffles , make the eccentric old lady out , finally , to be fretful rather than evil . |
| 5 | In order to be effective , the level of intervention to regulate corporate crime has to be organizational rather than individual . |
| 6 | There was a growing awareness that to be Latin rather than Anglo-Saxon should not necessarily imply inferiority . |