Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] rather [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistical searches constitute possibly the most important incentive for using Fishbase rather than an industry standard database — presuming you have access to one of these — for the output is very extensive , as I said . |
| 2 | My parents ' steadfast refusal to countenance the anti-semitism common among many of the people they knew was my first lesson as a young child against accepting hearsay rather than the evidence of your own experience . |
| 3 | Ill-defined regions of the data , rational equations , unjustified polynomial fits ( particularly for extrapolations ) , failure to examine data at low X and Y values sufficiently , reversing X and Y values , and as the manual puts it , ‘ trusting numbers rather than the evidence of your own eyes ’ are some others . |
| 4 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 5 | I thought of my interest as being in subjects rather than individual works ; showing subjects rather than the summation of an idea made my objective clearer and that meant presenting the complete thought process . |
| 6 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 7 | Company fleet buyers are said to have been holding back , pondering the result of a value added tax case that removed obstacles in the way of offering cash rather than the car perk . |
| 8 | Lindsey recognised the medication as one having been proved to be most beneficial in cases like Mr Baker 's where it was a matter of offering relief rather than a cure . |