Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] rather [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 4 | Used in this way , the computer has become a valuable background resource in British schools rather than an agent of revolutionary change . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This seems to suggest that the enhancement in performance for the risky junctions as demonstrated by the P(A) scores is because of an increased number of hits for risky exemplars , whereas for the less risky junctions the decrement in performance is attributable to an increase in false alarms for the risky exemplars rather than an increase in hits for the less risky ones . |
| 9 | Of course , such examples may represent changes undergone since the arrival of different faunas rather than the arrival of plants in different faunal regions . |
| 10 | A number of arguments is usually advanced in favour of a selected or key settlement policy for rural areas rather than a strategy of dispersed growth . |
| 11 | Although in many areas votes were cast for individual candidates rather than the party which fielded them , analysis of the results showed that support for the AP had shifted markedly from urban to rural areas where government development plans and projects had made an impact . |
| 12 | It will be noticed that in all of this the term " correlate " is being used in a way consistent with our previous uses of " event " , " cause " , " condition " , " causal circumstance " , and " effect " : not for a type of thing , but for a thing itself , more particularly an individual property or set of such properties rather than a type . |
| 13 | This reduction has , however , been accompanied by stringent central controls rather than an increase in local independence . |
| 14 | These procedures will need to tailored to each specific sale but a common theme will be a guideline for the submission date for indicative offers rather than a deadline . |
| 15 | Expansion of the Citizen 's Charter still concentrates on individual consumers rather than the potential of user groups . |
| 16 | What could not be allowed was the suggestion that major characters were using language to deceive and self-present in expedient ways which suited political needs rather than the way they ‘ really were ’ . |
| 17 | The emphasis is on opening and closing legs rather than a bend and straightening of the legs . |
| 18 | The vendor may be prepared to accept some of the risk of not having the retention placed into a dedicated account or simply facing deferred instalments rather than a retention . |
| 19 | Unfortunately not ; and there are numerous recorded incidents of the discovery of corpses all owing their ‘ preservation ’ to natural causes rather than the influence of man . |
| 20 | A senior clerk takes a commission of between five and ten per cent of the brief fees rather than a salary , which can exceed the earnings of many of the barristers in the chambers . |
| 21 | But the popularity of The Hamsters with the younger generation is undeniable , Slim said : ‘ I 'm finding that teenagers are creating a resurgence of interest in music played by human beings rather than the dance music made by guys playing keyboards with one finger . |
| 22 | We used these criteria rather than a disease activity index which incorporates both clinical symptoms ( stool frequency , faecal blood , overall wellbeing ) and endoscopic findings because the patients were not readily available for endoscopy between the yearly evaluations . |
| 23 | Offers are always expressed as two or three grades rather than a total of points to retain a degree of control at the confirmation stage . |
| 24 | It is emphasising these offerings rather than the connectivity software products for which it is traditionally known — what it now calls a secondary stream . |
| 25 | This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre . |
| 26 | The capacity of any writing to act as an instructive auctoritee is scrutinized within the Nun 's Priest 's Tale in the auctoritees cited , all but one by Chauntecleer , in the " debate " over dreams which in reality consists of two opposed monologues rather than a dialogue . |
| 27 | President Howard Smith maintains the problem has been one of long sales cycles by large accounts considering bulk purchases of up to two or three thousand units rather than the impulse buying originally anticipated by Clarity 's business plan . |
| 28 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 29 | It says that future versions using 16M-bit chips rather than the present 4Ms will enable DEC/3000 Model 400/S and Model 500/S systems to address 512Mb and 1Gb main memory respectively ; they are out now at $4,800 for 32Mb , $7,800 for 64Mb . |
| 30 | Both propose legislation aimed at dealing with anti-competitive effects rather than the form of an agreement . |