Example sentences of "[n mass] rather [subord] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week 's Sunday Wine , the Vino de Tavola from Sainsbury 's , was at some stores selling for £2.99 rather than the advertised £2.69 . |
| 2 | The MAD games retailed at £2.99 rather than the traditional £1.99 , meaning that more time and resources could be poured into the production , resulting in higher standards and improved gameplay . |
| 3 | We are also developing a technique which allows us to identify individuals , their sex and age , from dung , and this will be invaluable in conserving rare and secretive animals , such as the Javan rhino , using real data rather than the statistical guessing used at present . |
| 4 | Typically overheating by 1°C increases energy consumption by 7 per cent , and so heating a building to 22°C rather than the statutory maximum of 19°C increases the amount of energy used by over 20 per cent . |
| 5 | It is an expression of alliance between groups of kin rather than a short-term arrangement between two private individuals . |
| 6 | Does one appoint a poor teacher who is a mathematics specialist to a staff rather than an excellent teacher who happens to be a historian but who enjoys teaching mathematics ? |
| 7 | The Protestant element favoured complete union with England , in spite of warnings that this would mean subjugation — by peaceful means rather than the warlike ones of the past , but subjugation nonetheless . |
| 8 | Increasingly , experts are seeing computer crime as a people rather than a technical problem . |
| 9 | With the Rule of St Benedict ( c. 550 ) , supremely , the monastic community was launched on the road of catering for ordinary people rather than a spiritual élite . |
| 10 | The first , in the West End , had as its clients the peerage and gentry rather than the mercantile classes . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal held that the rent payable was £1,900 rather than the realisable value of 1,900 gold sovereigns . |
| 12 | Many data are collected regularly and routinely , particularly by government agencies , local authorities , etc. , so that , again , we have These observations are best thought of as a time series rather than a longitudinal study since the whole community of a country or region ( rather than a sample ) is generally involved . |
| 13 | Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that from April 1992 , 60% rather than the current 50% of Government housing finance will be allocated on a discretionary basis following civil servants ' assessment of councils ' performance . |