Example sentences of "the [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 . |