Example sentences of "[noun sg] rather than [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of headroom is that those above should act as a support rather than as a control . |
| 2 | Prices were lagging behind in the mid to late Eighties , rising in sympathy rather than on a burst of serious investment buying . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the majority of farmers engage in landscape change as a result of the economic constraints imposed upon their farming practice rather than as a result of any personal whim . |
| 5 | The SACHR felt it should be used as an incentive to good practice rather than as a weapon after an employer had been found guilty of a criminal offence ( discrimination ) . |
| 6 | There he became involved with the student newspaper and student television — for pleasure rather than as a grounding for his future career . |
| 7 | Today , many residents will die in a residential home rather than in a hospital . |
| 8 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 9 | By contrast , however , a broadly conceived information skills course was presented as essential for topic work rather than as a facilitator of the separate work of subject departments . |
| 10 | However in my written statement , I have suggested that certain of the criteria are going to be more appropriate to a local plan rather than to a structure plan . |
| 11 | A study of Mary as queen rather than as a woman of great misfortune and ultimate tragedy necessitates discussion of what was happening when the central figure of the monarch was off-stage , and especially before her debut , when the scene of her rule was set ; the problems which her absence created , and the way in which others struggled to resolve them are as relevant as the short period of her personal reign . |
| 12 | There was a greater emphasis on masturbation as a symptom rather than as a cause . |
| 13 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 14 | Already he was wondering if his fame meant that his writing had only a contemporary appeal and he complained that people now thought of him as a celebrity rather than as a poet . |
| 15 | Deductive markers provide a linguistic means of signalling the deductive/empirical distinction : they signal that what follows should be interpreted as a conclusion rather than as a description of an event/state . |
| 16 | As Squig Hunter teams normally carry one prodder between two models a Boss can be armed with a sword , axe or any other kind of hand weapon rather than with a prodder . |
| 17 | Object orientation means that everything , from a program to a file , is an object , and you would work on a file rather than in a program — it 's an attitude , a state of mind , and can be emulated in Windows 3.1 to some extent by associating file extensions with applications and using object linking and embedding , a form of which appears in OS/2 . |
| 18 | Indeed , one could posit the hypothesis that this technique , if enforced , would put more pressure on sparse thorn/acacia resources , or possibly animal dung as cooking fuel rather than as a fertiliser . |
| 19 | ‘ The commitment to fund a rolling programme in County Durham is also very good news as this will enable us to plan ahead over a three-year period rather than on a year to year basis as has been the case . |
| 20 | If this is so , then the directors of a company would continue to be accountable to a share price rather than to a body of committed stakeholders . |
| 21 | Our leader , according to this approach , will allow others to develop , to act as an enabler rather than as a director of subordinates . |
| 22 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 23 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 24 | We can see him or her as a person rather than as a stereotype . |
| 25 | They are in danger of seeing each illustration as a separate creation , in a picture-frame rather than in a story . |
| 26 | On the cross Christ himself came to be portrayed as a man in agony rather than as a God in majesty . |
| 27 | The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments . |
| 28 | There the station was perfectly proportioned and almost impossible to identify as a station rather than as a church , both externally and internally . |
| 29 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
| 30 | As has been shown , analysis of NCTs main 1979 survey results demonstrates that in general poorer people , less well educated people , those in lower social classes , old people and women rather than men are less well informed about credit , and more likely to use a type of credit out of habit or convenience rather than as a matter of rational choice . |