Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] rather than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although early writers such as Bowlby ( 1951 , 1972 ) and Winnicott emphasized the mother-child relationship rather than parent-child , both called for support to ordinary families as a starting point to improved standards of child raising . |
| 2 | Marxists see both state and law as operating in the interests of the ruling class rather than society as a whole . |
| 3 | In reality , centralized reward systems rely on negative rather than positive rewards ; that is , deviation from a norm rather than recognition of performance beyond the norm ; criticism for failure to reach the expected performance rather than recognition of good performance . |
| 4 | It would seem therefore that low osmolality is the dominant factor rather than glucose transport when it comes to promoting net water absorption and this contention is supported by the higher water absorption from the WHO-ORS compared to UK-ORS in secreting intestine , despite their similar glucose absorption . |
| 5 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 6 | And do you think that 's really going to be an application , as it were , that will appeal more to the lay person rather than person that uses a computer for business or professionally one way or another ? |
| 7 | However such tokenism misses our point since we are concerned with improving the whole system rather than management gestures , and unless the saving is redistributed to the lower paid staff it does not begin to address our concerns . |
| 8 | On the other side were many who voiced optimism and trust in the Holy Spirit rather than defensiveness , saw more need for encouragement than for condemnations , and were convinced that there was a new opportunity for liturgical and pastoral use of the Bible which must not be missed . |
| 9 | With their SOE connexions , the SSRF found a dory more suitable than canoes when landing an agent who wanted to melt into the local scene rather than stagger ashore dripping wet from a canoe . |
| 10 | In the 1990s , British youth culture increasingly looks to a European milieu rather than North America . |
| 11 | The probability of becoming a longterm user was higher for duodenal ulcer patients than for gastric ulcer patients , and higher for those who had the initial diagnoses based on a radiographic examination rather than endoscopy . |
| 12 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 13 | Whether or not it was ‘ in their haste , their unwillingness to temporise , that the Vietminh leaders , with their fathomless vanity , had driven their country straight into conflict with France ’ — the reproach of Vietnamese intellectuals and non-marxist nationalists — it was a rather academic if not drawing-room argument that the Vietminh could easily have brought about national unanimity and created a national state rather than revolution and the party state . |
| 14 | Yet , the intimate knowledge of the sick individual often places them in an ideal position to link illness with iatrogenesis , and the better doctors will see such insight as a welcome assistance rather than interference , and make full use of it . |
| 15 | Wet , it looked darker — a deep bronze rather than gold . |
| 16 | Instead , as the statement of source and application of funds reveals , it was still a net customer rather than generator of cash , since an apparent increase of £162,000 in the company 's cash balances was only made possible by a loan of £350,000 . |
| 17 | To reassemble the joint , use a non-setting mastic rather than putty and apply it liberally to the socket . |