Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the responsibilities and experience of these delegates , it is sad that they could only view research as relative to one problem , admittedly an important one , rather than to key issues of the service . |
| 2 | Animals of most species are likely to find themselves living close to their sisters , brothers and cousins , rather than to random members of the population . |
| 3 | The indices for health are negative — death rates , life expectancy rates , morbidity rates — and they refer mainly to quantitative rather than to qualitative changes of the labour force . |
| 4 | In this case it would always be advantageous to invest for one month at a time rather than for two months at one go . |
| 5 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |
| 6 | It would make life a lot simpler to do these alterations when the words exist as digits in a computer 's memory , rather than as solid chunks of metal in the composing room . |
| 7 | This attitude may have the effect of blunting the critical edge of press coverage , by encouraging court reporters to perceive themselves as part and parcel of the court process , rather than as objective critics of its workings . |
| 8 | Over such periods high growth rates , and rapid improvements in living standards , are dependent upon an increase in productive capacity rather than on temporary changes in the level of demand . |
| 9 | The committee urged that the emphasis should henceforth be on the special needs for education of certain groups of children — those with learning difficulties — rather than on various categories of handicap . |
| 10 | The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the profound failure of British law and practice in this regard , concentrating mainly on telephone-tapping rather than on other forms of interception . |
| 11 | The emphasis is on the vocabulary rather than on other aspects of language and there is a tendency to focus on the high style . |
| 12 | Its usefulness will depend on the extent to which your research focuses on general properties rather than on specific properties of the chemicals that make up real polymer solutions . |
| 13 | That , says McKinsey , is because they spend money where it is needed rather than on grand castles in the air . |
| 14 | The Committee approved the trend towards cooking in sculleries rather than on open fires in living rooms although the latter remained the only option for many families living in rooms until well into the inter-war period . |
| 15 | Past political decisions justify coercion because , and therefore only when , they give fair warning by making the occasions of coercion depend on plain facts available to all rather than on fresh judgments of political morality , which different judges might make differently . |
| 16 | Instead , it has chosen to develop ‘ projections of demand based on the likely availability of resources rather than on detailed assessments of specialty needs . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , successful labour organisation could have been more firmly based on unions which each combined many skills within a single industry , rather than of related functions in a wide range of businesses . |
| 18 | The small piece of hedge , woven like a basket with the traditional hazel and willow , is now planted facing the harbour side for the benefit of photographers rather than at right angles to the bank . |
| 19 | There is not so much advocacy to be done ; much of the work is non-litigious ( such as drafting documents and advising on title ) , and the cases that do get into court tend to turn upon technicalities of company law , taxation , property and wills , or upon questions of company finance , rather than upon controversial questions of fact . |
| 20 | The cost is basing class theory on domination , like elite theorists , rather than upon Marxist theories of exploitation ( Wright , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | Increasing demands on services estimated at costing 2 per cent more in real terms per year ( Benzeval and Robinson 1988 ) were to be met by increased efficiency rather than by increasing levels of funding to match . |
| 22 | Their costs , in lost chargeable hours , are borne by their firms rather than by registered auditors as a body . |
| 23 | Kerswill 's interest is in distinguishing different types of variable rather than in developing methods of quantification which give different kinds of insight into sociolinguistic patterns . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen how successful this drive will prove because governments have to convince young people of the attractions of scientific and industrial education vis-à-vis the humanities and the social sciences as well as of the advantages of employment in industry and trade rather than in other sectors of the labour market . |
| 25 | Despite a successful reduction of the budget deficit [ see p. 38020 for 1991 budget ] , the report cautioned that " much of the progress so far has resulted from buoyant economic activity rather than from structural reforms in the economy " and argued in favour of further deregulation of the economy . |
| 26 | However , it was funded from taxes collected by central government rather than from direct payments by members of the public in exchange for the medical services received . |