Example sentences of "[noun prp] rather than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , it was the cautious Valuev rather than the enlightened Miliutin who brought such institutions nearer . |
| 2 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 3 | It must also be remembered that if one swings Spain ( as one must ) to close the Bay of Biscay , then the main Hercynian trend of the Iberian Meseta becomes an Atlantic rather than a Mediterranean direction . |
| 4 | Gedge had still not fully applied himself to music and was quite happy to play board games with Solowka rather than the laborious task of writing songs . |
| 5 | And it is still if , not when though in this article I am assuming a working Tory majority in the Commons rather than a hung Parliament , which would change everything . |
| 6 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 7 | She also recognized Chiang 's Nationalist government in Formosa ( Taiwan ) as the legitimate government of China rather than the Communist regime at Peking . |
| 8 | His country still insist he must turn out in an African Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa rather than the televised curtain-raiser at the City ground . |
| 9 | By the time the legates arrived , however , they were dealing with a king , not a duke , and the bishop of Sutri was satisfied with a general promise from Philip rather than a formal oath and he absolved Philip secretly . |
| 10 | So Mario Vargas Llosa is represented by The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta rather than the technical brilliance of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter . |
| 11 | The one consolation is that the fourth team are Egypt rather than the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Had Shakespeare demanded reverberating resonance from his tortured prince he might have chosen to set Hamlet in the finest piece of neo-classical architecture in Europe rather than the rotten state of Denmark . |
| 13 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 14 | had selected another proxy for their tests , the results would have supported the traditional risk-free rate version of the CAPM rather than the zero-beta variant . |
| 15 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
| 16 | And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York . |
| 17 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 18 | In order to conform to the conventional direction of the papillomavirus genome the octamer sequence has been written as ATTTGCAT rather than the complementary sequence ATGCAAAT which is more often presented . |
| 19 | Apart from this belief in the straightforward truth of books which would now be seen as in differing degrees myth , with Adam as Everyman rather than a historical figure , for example , there was diffidence about the boundaries of science . |