Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 2 | Many young men were attracted to the profession of arms for its own sake , and the excitement and glory of successful war were reasons in themselves for service , but some at least of those who engaged with a captain may have been responding to pressures at home and in the local economy rather than to the material incentives that war offered . |
| 3 | All those rules were for nominal measures — money supply , public spending and borrowing , growth in money GDP — rather than for the volume goals of output , jobs and expenditure that most earlier governments had pursued in vain . |
| 4 | In this typical example of scientific doublespeak , the burden of proof is , as usual , thrown on to conservationists to show that a fishing technique has an unacceptable effect , rather than on the fishing nations to show that the method is ecologically sound . |
| 5 | She refers to the lines joining them as ‘ lines of force ’ , and states that pagans worship the Old Gods on these rather than at the power centres themselves which had tended to have been ‘ exorcized ’ by the Christians by the erection of chapels dedicated to St Michael . |
| 6 | The application for clearance must be made , somewhat anomalously , by Target or Newco rather than by the vendor shareholders who wish to benefit from the capital gains tax deferral . |
| 7 | The general secretary of the railway union is elected by the federal congress rather than by the railway delegates alone , and there is a growing concern to concentrate policy-making at federal level . |
| 8 | Because the activity is taking place in London , rather than in the home countries of the currencies in question , the markets are referred to as Euromarkets . |
| 9 | As a procedural matter , the Court of Appeal determined that the inhabitants should bring their case in the High Court of the Trust Territory rather than in the District Courts of the United States , and rejected the claim . |
| 10 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |