Example sentences of "rather than a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 2 | Their determination was to confront their oppressors and overturn their prerogatives rather than a sharing of power , even by mutual agreement . |
| 3 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 4 | The inner city becomes a problem of space rather than a problem in space . |
| 5 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 6 | A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach . |
| 7 | Last year in particular , it saw the introduction of TV into Fiji as an opportunity to redouble its efforts to ensure that the medium is a positive influence in the country , rather than a threat to culture and moral standards . |
| 8 | Last year in particular , it saw the introduction of TV into Fiji as an opportunity to redouble its efforts to ensure that the medium is a positive influence in the country , rather than a threat to culture and moral standards . |
| 9 | For , large or small , the ‘ master ’ rather than the impersonal authority of the ‘ company ’ ruled the enterprise , and even the company was identified with a man rather than a board of directors . |
| 10 | The idea is that articulate language is a barrier to rather than a medium of communication and that if only this barrier could be removed , human beings would revert to a golden age of wordless , heartfelt communication . |
| 11 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 12 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 13 | There seems no a priori reason why the intellectual collapse of the radical bourgeoisie in the early nineteenth century should necessitate a single line of avant-garde response — rather than a multiplicity of struggles , which , instead of leading irrevocably to extreme Schoenbergian individualism , might , for example , ‘ preserve ’ ( that is reuse ) older elements , to be rearticulated to the interests of new group subjects if and when they emerged . |
| 14 | Such people , he added , were dominated by the notion of ‘ an end with horror , rather than a horror without end ’ . |
| 15 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 16 | The emphasis of the ‘ tax credit ’ would be towards a form of tax relief rather than a payment of benefit . |
| 17 | Here efficiency is increased if a per-unit output subsidy is paid to suppliers , rather than a grant towards input costs . |
| 18 | Michael Joyce was an entrepreneur rather than a builder by trade , though his son elevated this to ‘ architect ’ when applying for a German military passport in 1941 . |
| 19 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |
| 20 | But a residual effect of the ‘ privatizing ’ of sexuality , and in particular of the construction of sexual deviance as an identity , a pathology of being , rather than a kind of behaviour in principle open to all , is that the challenge to this construction often itself remains imprisoned by the public/private dichotomy . |
| 21 | When he gets his way in a new ‘ voluntary agreement ’ ( which is likely once the industry gets over its panic on finding a Minister for Health rather than a Minister for Tobacco in the DoH ) he may feel bound to reject the ban . |
| 22 | It consisted of an alteration of the relationship between law and morality that allowed the Committee to recommend a partial decriminalisation of homosexuality , rather than a defence of homosexuality itself . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the amount of any distribution received on such ordinary shares which will be treated as an income distribution rather than a return of capital will be increased to take account of the deferred repayment of premium accrued at the date of conversion ( see s210 TA 1988 ) . |
| 24 | Bell goes on to make explicit a relationship between monolingual stylistic variation and bilingual behaviour : having two discrete languages available rather than a continuum of styles simply throws into sharper focus the factors which operate on monolingual style shift . |
| 25 | They should be encouraged by the tax system and give from a desire to share or spread pleasure rather than a sense of guilt or duty . |
| 26 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |
| 27 | Does it cover a change in view rather than a change in facts ? |
| 28 | Rather than a follow-up to Nevermind , it is a prequel which shows how the band got to their current position where rock critics and industry moguls divide music into two categories : pre-Nirvana and post-Nirvana . |
| 29 | He believed Dene House was among those to close because of its potential high sale value rather than a lack of residents . |
| 30 | The other staff member co-ordinated the feedback , making it plain that , for these purposes , the repetition of points could be taken as evidence of the strength of shared experience rather than a lack of incisiveness on the part of the spokespersons . |