Example sentences of "rather [conj] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than simply criticizing quantitative analysis as a whole , she adapts slightly the standard method of measuring linguistic variables , pointing out that the three variants of ( r ) which can be distinguished ( [ ? ] , [ ? ] and [ ? ] are difficult to place on any rationally motivated social continuum . |
| 2 | If developed countries want to reduce the waste that goes to landfill , rather than simply make green gestures , incineration with energy recovery is the best way to do it . |
| 3 | Even so , when handling and riding horses , we really need to be able to anticipate their emotions , actions and reactions , rather than simply expecting perfect behaviour and performance from them . |
| 4 | Rather than simply obtaining average values for the 40 junctions and correlating the averages , hence obscuring the variance in individual subjects ’ responses , the procedure described in Dunlap , Jones & Bittner ( 1983 ) was followed and average correlations were calculated . |
| 5 | Grappling with this problem , feminists who want to draw attention to women 's presence rather than simply adopting male titles have sometimes proposed completely novel words ( for instance Italian dottora , a feminine coining for ‘ doctor ’ that flouts the rules of Italian word-formation ) . |
| 6 | The generative system is able to operate on a sentential level rather than simply consider local word combinations . |
| 7 | The reason the market economy or catallaxy produces fresh wealth rather than simply redistributing existing wealth is critically bound up with the way in which market prices act as signals containing vital information . |
| 8 | The moral to be drawn from this is , let us apply the same committed and co-ordinated approach to deliver a Scottish parliament , which could tackle a whole range of problems , rather than simply showing piecemeal enthusiasm over a few issues like water and the poll tax . |
| 9 | The renewed interest in using literary texts as a means of inculcating the kind of critical competence which could comprehend rather than simply dismiss contemporary culture in all its complex manifestations , was one kind of response to this crisis . |
| 10 | Modern organization theory stresses that political and administrative elites must decentralize policy implementation into sub-organizations with their own problem zones , rather than simply expand central government departments into vast line agencies with direct control over all administration . |
| 11 | Lozanov emphasises that inputs on the two planes should support each other , rather than partially cancel each other out . |
| 12 | It takes a while to get used to the looks of the new car , but it is clear that Lotus is seeking to advance sports car design rather than just repeat past successes . |
| 13 | The most likely explanation for the difference is that the scid mutation affects the physiology of the thymocyte in a more general way rather than just preventing correct V(D)J recombination . |
| 14 | Rather than just putting these numbers into your I mean you will put these numbers into your calculator , but do it with that , leave leave your C R out of it and just keep it as T. |
| 15 | The example illustrates the legal obstacles to parties to a treaty characterising as international waterways , areas that are not under their exclusive jurisdiction and control , rather than just making contractual commitments with respect to them . |
| 16 | The second , and by far the best option is to recognise the conditions and go with them , selecting plants which , rather than just tolerating dry conditions , will actually thrive in them . |
| 17 | This involved ecology , rather than just arranging dried specimens in interesting patterns . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll be competing rather than just surviving this season and the game against Wigan will be a indicator of what we are up against . |
| 19 | The inverted-U relationship has been empirically demonstrated for a number of different tasks ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) , however , it is often regarded as a purely descriptive relationship rather than necessarily implying that arousal per se is affecting performance . |
| 20 | If the BMA is to be taken seriously then it should espouse more worthy causes that have some prospect of success rather than politically correct harebrained schemes such as this , which is as likely to bear fruit as ‘ pigs are to fly , ’ to quote the two speakers . |
| 21 | Rather than only recording those instances of violence that the women had reported to official agencies such as the police , they explored a wide range of violent incidents from the women 's points of view . |
| 22 | Firstly the lexicon is pre-processed by using an array to hold the tree nodes , so that the memory required is allocated in one contiguous amount , rather than dynamically allocating each node . |
| 23 | The college was founded as a radical , even visionary institution , being intended to widen women 's culture and thus their whole lives , rather than merely provide vocational training for future governesses . |
| 24 | A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business . |