Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] rather [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because of the structure of catholic nationalism in the Southern state and partly because the national unity sought by significant numbers of Northern catholic nationalists is still on the basis of the reversal of protestant — loyalist hegemony rather than a power compromise . |
| 2 | All I 'm try we 're only speaking from the best interests here , speaking from the bloody heart rather than the head probably here but we we do want th we do want the best but it 's the old old story , it 's botching it up is n't it , it 's fudging it , it 's trying to fit a square pet into a role cos we pay crap money y'know |
| 3 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 4 | The first to enjoy any degree of commercial success was SideKick which is primarily aimed at the technical user rather than the businessman . |
| 5 | The development of programme structures was seen as an additional administrative responsibility rather than a substitute for previous ones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was just a few yards walk to the main road , a careful look around , then across it , instinctively choosing the potential cover of a derelict warehouse on that side rather than the dockyard fence on this . |
| 8 | Changes were afoot in the world of Britpop but even so , the NME of the '50s was still a big band paper first and foremost , and one that saw its typical reader as a working musician rather than a fan . |
| 9 | We study different cultures and the communities that produce them , placing our primary emphasis on social relations and treating culture as a vehicle or medium for social interaction rather than an end in itself . |
| 10 | Now Livingston appears to be fighting a losing cause , especially since he is relying on a scientific defence rather than a claim the BAF testing procedure was suspect . |
| 11 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 12 | Furthermore , if a citizen suffers loss as a result of failure by a Member State to implement a directive , the citizen may be entitled to recover damages for that loss from the State even if the relevant provisions of the directive are not directly effective and even if , had the directive been implemented , the citizen would have been entitled to damages from another citizen rather than the state . |
| 13 | Used in this way , the computer has become a valuable background resource in British schools rather than an agent of revolutionary change . |
| 14 | This attitude is not uncommon but it was new to me , as were a good many of Sophie 's ideas , and because of its novelty I think I was unconsciously moulded by it : I had begun to see Richard as someone to be ‘ got round ’ , a duped enemy rather than a husband . |
| 15 | To some extent the notion of academic scepticism is a caricature or even downright inaccurate ; the advancement of knowledge requires emotional commitment just as much as detachment , and it is the ground-rules of public research rather than the temperament of academics which sustain objective criticism . |
| 16 | ( 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 . ) |
| 17 | More generally , Roach has reservations about the direction the music took after bebop — ‘ There was a change-over : it went into dance and party music , functioning as an entertaining vehicle rather than an intellectual , enlightening thing ’ — and he sees the effects of this slackening of purpose in the playing of a number of later-1980s musicians . |
| 18 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 19 | In 1930 , however , its name was changed to Revista Comunista , and the editors explicitly stated their intention to produce a theoretical journal rather than an information bulletin as hitherto . |
| 20 | Thus a disposition towards obedience , in fact towards socialization in general , is the product of proper social development rather than the result of a rigorous and heavy-handed training regime . |
| 21 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |
| 22 | Male homosexuality is increasingly regarded as a variation of sexual behaviour rather than a perversion , and although the homosexual male is still treated badly by the law , in comparison to the heterosexual , he no longer feels the urgent need for anonymity and secrecy . |
| 23 | His eyes were blue , a legacy from the English rose whom Marius had-married ; and his hair was light brown rather than the black which his father had kept , only peppered with grey , until his death . |
| 24 | Commercial speculation rather than the law fired his imagination . |
| 25 | It can become a pleasant social occasion rather than a chore . |
| 26 | It is a part of the ego-organization , and developed out of it in some ways rather as the ego itself differentiated from the id . |
| 27 | The production of these ideological forms would be by people whose labour is mental rather than material , whose product has effects in a world of ideas and social relations rather than the material world of objects . |
| 28 | Most advertising applies a lot of peer group pressure : if you are the successful executive you 're trying to be , you must fly British Airways rather than the red-eye . |
| 29 | Exploration , forced by the paucity of lines remaining on natural rock , found the Rainbow to be a steep slab rather than a wall , and climbable after all . |
| 30 | This is partly to ensure that any increase in profitability can be identified as the result of improved efficiency rather than a change in the method of compiling the accounts . |