Example sentences of "rather as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems to be some poetry rattling about in there , rather as air rattles about in the bowels , but to get it out with a proper report — that 's the trick ! |
| 2 | I do not hold this out as support for the thesis , but rather as evidence of the direction being taken by governments of whatever political complexion . |
| 3 | Of that icy coldness she was very aware , but not as relief , rather as pain , rather as shock . |
| 4 | Moreover , rather as substance dualism tends to do , it seems to undermine the causal role of consciousness in , for example , bringing about or influencing actions . |
| 5 | Migraine , too , is followed by nausea and vomit rather as sin is followed by remorse . |
| 6 | Marx did not thereby characterise this as being primitive accumulation on the part of British capital , but rather as period of development of capital on the basis of the capitalist mode of production , even though this entailed the destruction of pre-capitalist forms . |
| 7 | In Bali , where cockfighting is also a controlled ritual , the cocks have two spurs with honed edges , rather than a single spur with a sharpened point , so the battles differ in style and technique , according to the aficionados , rather as swordsmanship differs depending on whether a cutlass or a rapier is used . |
| 8 | The method used ( and you may well think of a better one ! ) is to drive two brass gimp or panel pins into the panel on each side of each of the l.e.d.s such that the l.e.d. wires can be looped around ( no tightness here ) and be soldered to the pins rather as Fig. 6 shows . |
| 9 | Of that icy coldness she was very aware , but not as relief , rather as pain , rather as shock . |
| 10 | Thinking involves taking perspectives on reality , rather as drawing does . |