Example sentences of "rather than by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most controversial was the submission by the Christian Democrats that the two republics should be linked by a formal state treaty ( as between two sovereign states , on the basis of international law ) rather than by a political declaration . |
| 2 | The current observational evidence suggests that the luminosity of the Galactic Centre is generated by a cluster of luminous stars rather than by a black hole . |
| 3 | It is argued for the appellants that fixing a tariff period is part of that power , and must be done by the Secretary of State himself , rather than by a junior minister or official . |
| 4 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 5 | A person can obtain a controlling interest in a company by means of an issue of new shares in that company rather than by a general offer to acquire the shares already in existence . |
| 6 | The Police Complaints Authority may direct that disciplinary charges are heard by a tribunal rather than by a chief officer sitting alone . |
| 7 | Does the Minister agree that Chernobyl probably happened because of incompetence rather than by a deliberate action ? |
| 8 | One might have supposed , therefore , that if the donor has chosen to make the gift by handing to the donee a signed transfer and the share certificate , rather than by a formal declaration of trust in favour of the donee , the gift would not be effective unless and until the transfer was registered . |
| 9 | Decisions are usually reached by consensus , rather than by a senior manager taking a decision and selling it or imposing it on his subordinates . |
| 10 | In the general election of 1983 , 63 per cent of the vote for the Liberal-SDP Alliance was motivated by dislike for the other parties rather than by a positive liking for their own party of choice — still less for their policies . |
| 11 | Thus by the early years of the Edo period many samurai families were maintained by a fixed stipend rather than by the fluctuating harvest of a prescribed area of land . |
| 12 | Recent models of Jupiter have been constrained by J 2 , J 4 and the axial period , rather than by the polar moment of inertia . |
| 13 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 14 | In these societies marriages involve alliances between groups , often of a political character , and as such they are initiated and organized by the leaders of the groups concerned rather than by the future couple . |
| 15 | When , in consequence , such background is presented by writers like ourselves , rather than by the official shepherd , it can often produce a reaction amounting to trauma , or a personal crisis of faith . |
| 16 | Four out of the five Railfreight sub-sectors deal mainly with bulk traffic which travels by the trainload rather than by the individual wagonload . |
| 17 | As will be suggested , this is a group characterized by ordinariness rather than by the extraordinary creation of new identities . |
| 18 | To the dismay of radical reformers , the congress had voted to have this presidium , i.e. the senior party leadership , elected by the supreme council rather than by the full congress . ) |
| 19 | ‘ New client publishers are judged by the complementary nature of their lists and by the quality of the relationship , rather than by the potential turnover that may be gained , ’ Mr Binns comments . |
| 20 | With two exceptions , all universities receive central government funding that is allocated among them on the basis of advice by the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) rather than by the direct decision of the DES . |
| 21 | Often they were detailed and informative ; and many were published under pressure from the House of Commons rather than by the free decision of the government , though the fact that they normally related to negotiations which had been concluded rather than to any still in progress inevitably limited their usefulness as a weapon of parliamentary control . |
| 22 | The tendency of a work to deprave or corrupt its readers was henceforth to be judged in the light of its total impact , rather than by the arousing potential of " purple passages " . |
| 23 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 24 | It may not be too long before bioceramics are grown at room temperature in a test tube rather than by an involved combination of crushing , pressing and firing at extremely high temperatures . |