Example sentences of "rather than in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he is concerned with is the discovery of the right formulation to ‘ fashion it thus ’ , a means of presentation that will persuade an audience that Caesar needed to die and was killed by actions undertaken in the public rather than in a private interest . |
| 2 | I fully accept that it requires a good school to achieve good examination results , especially in an inner-city area rather than in a well-favoured suburb . |
| 3 | Analysts ' presentations happen at the dolphinarium rather than in a boring hotel . |
| 4 | Their detentions had been widely criticized , and lawyers had threatened a boycott of the courts in support of demands by the Lagos High Court that the men be brought to court and that their trial be held in the city rather than in a remote location . |
| 5 | If there could be more attempts like this to show mentally handicapped lives in their normality , rather than in a sensational way , the media could play a major role in helping the public to understand more about the lives that handicapped people lead ; that they are not all anguish and broken dreams , but often constructive , fulfilling and as life enhancing as anyone else 's . |
| 6 | The missions are fine in themselves , but are manufactured to order , rather than in a true campaign fashion forcing you to undertake certain tasks . |
| 7 | Lear 's failure to judge his family properly , in that he sees things in a materialistic sense rather than in a true sense of love is amplified into the conclusion of a country split against itself . |
| 8 | In addition to establishing the coherence of a specifically identifiable Genoese artistic tradition , the catalogue emphatically challenges the hierarchy which values painting over other forms of aesthetic expression , particularly emphasising the role of such sculptors as Filippo Parodi and Pierre Puget , who should be viewed in a Mediterranean rather than in a French context . |
| 9 | It is clear that the vast majority of people find faith gradually , rather than in a sudden conversion . |
| 10 | To present such stark choices on one 's own , rather than in a formal Intervention , is commonly ineffective . |
| 11 | The recommendation following upon an assessment might result in a child with a hearing disability being placed in a local primary school rather than in a special unit for children who are deaf or partially hearing . |
| 12 | Carers generally operate alone rather than in a large network and , as noted earlier , they are not a single group . |
| 13 | This is less Ben Elton-speak than naked ambition to be an admired state-of-the-art comedian who can acknowledge the wrongs of the world , shift with the politics of the time , try out new techniques ( in this case performing in theatres with a captive audience rather than in a back room full of hecklers getting up and wandering to the bar every 20 minutes ) and be funny . |
| 14 | Edinburgh is known as ‘ The University in the City ’ because its buildings are located within and across the capital whose name it bears , rather than in a single campus outwith the city limits . |
| 15 | The restrictions generated by rational expectations models are very often non-linear and are also imposed across equations rather than in a single equation . |
| 16 | It may mean having to park in a car park , for example , rather than in a busy street where there are a lot of people passing by . |
| 17 | Much the same procedure is followed if you are interested in a topic rather than in a particular volume . |
| 18 | And then enlightenment dawned as the thought of Doreen flashed into her mind — Doreen who had insisted upon living in the pretentious home , rather than in a humble flat . |
| 19 | Here a collectivity was developed on a regional or local basis , drawing together workers from the various trades , rather than in a national body for the members of a single trade . |
| 20 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | I work in a very intuitive way rather than in a calculated manner . |
| 22 | Colours can be used as a complement to fonts or even as a substitute ( e.g. a user might choose to display the Emphasized context in a brighter colour rather than in a different font ) . |
| 23 | By the time we conclude our comparison of fabliau and exemplum at the end of this book we shall face a very similar formulation of the difference between the two as lying in the fabliau 's divergence from the normal modes of exemplum , which may in itself be funny , rather than in an all-preceding intention to be funny . |
| 24 | In brief , though naturally not insensitive to the difference between lower and higher wages , they were engaged in human life rather than in an economic transaction . |
| 25 | Whilst recognising that the 16–25 age group has a very strong claim to any manpower which might become available , the question arises as to whether it would be better placed at , for example , deanery level serving the needs of the whole age group rather than in an educational establishment serving an important but small minority . |
| 26 | Similarly , he retained a strong christocentrism , but tried to find a ‘ non-religious ’ interpretation of Jesus as ‘ the man for others ’ in whom God is indeed present , but present in weakness , suffering and hiddenness rather than in the authoritative majesty which was so markedly appealed to in Barth 's earlier writing . |
| 27 | Much of that lay in curriculum and pedagogy rather than in the large-scale organization of schools . |
| 28 | Beneath their discursiveness , these books exhibit a coherent social theory : the way to social progress lay in the rational wills of individuals , and true philanthropy consisted in supporting and strengthening that rational will rather than in the mechanical relief of poverty . |
| 29 | Like the orthodox account , they locate the crisis specifically within the prison rather than in the penal system as a whole . |
| 30 | It is far easier in physical terms to read texts if they are positioned as below ( A ) rather than in the usual position ( B ) . |