Example sentences of "[art] [adj] rather [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 2 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |
| 3 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |
| 4 | He chose ‘ the dog 's path ’ , and chose it consciously , because it was the crooked rather than the straight , it created difficulties , and those difficulties fed his art . |
| 5 | She was interested in the modern rather than the ancient , preferring Nottingham to York , new country seats and their furniture , paintings , formal gardens , and waterworks to ancient houses , and contemporary manufacturing , mining , and drainage projects to antiquities . |
| 6 | However , I shall certainly consider whether her suggestion could be included and I am sure that she is right to suggest the positive rather than the negative . |
| 7 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 8 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 9 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 10 | A mile further on is White Scar Cave , the best known , most advertised and heavily patronised in the district and a compulsive halt for coaches and cars ; indeed , the large parking space , the roadside signs and shopping facilities make it a commercial rather than a show cave . |
| 11 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 12 | Well before such things had become commonplace elsewhere , campaigning for office in California was a personal rather than a party matter , depending on the candidate 's ability to attract funds , to put together a personal following and to master the available means of communication . |
| 13 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 14 | Looking at him , do you seem to see a 25-year-old rather than a player of 35 ? |
| 15 | But one problem about showing that is that Dennett has opted ( perhaps unnecessarily for his argument ) for a flow-chart explication , which is inherently a static rather than a process one . |
| 16 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 17 | Action to deal with offenders was to be taken on a voluntary rather than a court basis where possible . |
| 18 | But this again was an administrative rather than a policy-making body . |
| 19 | The LEA 's role in the Programme was an interventionist rather than a facilitating one : it devised PNP 's goals and strategy , and sought closely to influence and control the Programme 's implementation . |
| 20 | It could be used , as it was by Bacon and Mersenne , to justify an empirical rather than a rationalist approach to nature . |
| 21 | Furthermore , in forging a connection between juvenile employment and education , they helped to portray the transition as essentially an educational rather than a trade process . |