Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] rather than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a normal car battery called an accumulator , accumulator or battery rather than a cell , does n't actually make it , it stores it . |
| 2 | Cannon to them is flesh and blood rather than a camera or a camcorder . |
| 3 | She was now a companion and friend rather than a nursemaid and domestic servant ; she prepared herself to run her own household and developed her skills as a needlewoman . |
| 4 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 5 | Maclean was a teacher and prophet rather than a party leader . |
| 6 | Efforts to reduce stocking densities have met with little success due to the significance of cattle as a source of wealth and prestige rather than a source of income ( IBRD 1977a ; Doran , Low & Kemp 1979 ) , so that herd size has actually increased between 1968–77 in spite of government efforts to reduce it ( this being discussed further in Ch. 7 ) . |
| 7 | All of which suggests that the government 's decision to pounce on the PAC was a reaction to threat and counter-threat rather than a conspiracy to undermine Mr de Klerk 's own negotiations . |