Example sentences of "rather [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 2 | ( c ) The most efficient delivery arrangement will be direct from the builders ' merchant or manufacturer to an individual site , rather than to the builder 's store . |
| 3 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 4 | No contemporary source attributes Louis 's firm dealings with Lothar , Pippin and Louis the German to the designs of Judith rather than to the emperor 's own wishes . |
| 5 | ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’ |
| 6 | Hughes advocated the use of low potencies prescribed on pathological grounds rather than on the patient 's general symptom picture . |
| 7 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 8 | John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was presented in a new production in 1989 as a study of a failed marriage rather than of the playwright 's early ideological concerns . |
| 9 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 10 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |
| 11 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 12 | The use of CCL as a common type of interface for many systems is based on the provision of translating software somewhere in the communication channel between host and the user , rather than in the user 's own terminal equipment , as in the previous examples . |
| 13 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 14 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 15 | Muddles in language often occur ( as is only to be expected ) in the petitioner 's question rather than in the jurist 's answer . |
| 16 | It is basically the function of the designer to protect the client 's interest and ensure that the food service planning is carried out from a food service operator 's point of view , rather than from the architect 's or interior designer 's point of view . |