Example sentences of "rather [subord] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major factor accounting for this difference is that American parties are much looser organizations than British ones , geared traditionally to winning elections rather than to implementing coherent policy programmes ( see chapter 12 ) . |
| 2 | Such evenings are for cementing business relationships rather than for discussing specific aspects of business . |
| 3 | These needs should be seen as a reason for unifying rather than for dividing educational provision . |
| 4 | This work programme is designed primarily for use in preparing circulars , rather than for making recommended offers . |
| 5 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 6 | New loans went to pay off the interest on earlier loans rather than on buying new farm machinery or modernising farming methods . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc , Gartner believes , has an entrenched position , focused on providing ‘ invented here ’ enabling technologies to independent software vendors , rather than on providing comprehensive ESP products to end users . |
| 8 | To be fair to everyone planning must be based on publicly agreed planning policies , rather than on rendering personal favours . |
| 9 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 10 | Israel 's refusal to authorize the return of all refugees desiring to resume residence on the West Bank , reported breaking off of West Bank banking negotiations and statements by senior Israeli officials quoted in American press gives rise to impression that Israeli government may be moving toward policy of seeking security simply by retaining occupied areas rather than by achieving peaceful settlement with Arabs . |
| 11 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 12 | This assumes that companies will respond to a weakening share price by improving efficiency in the long term , rather than by making short-term savings which might help the company 's performance in the short term ( known as short termism ) , to the detriment of long-term performance . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was the same social and economic variables ( low socio-economic status and powerlessness ) that ‘ explained ’ crime ( though in quite a different way — by increasing vulnerability to labelling rather than by increasing actual deviation ) . |
| 14 | Without unions fighting to keep up wages , employers are free to cut back costs by squeezing pay rather than by sacking marginal workers . |
| 15 | Security is an overall office function , and the Computing Sub-Group , in its earlier discussions on security , has preferred to deal with it by ensuring that offices are kept as secure as possible , rather than by guarding individual pieces of hardware . |
| 16 | Such requests could be met by providing new processes rather than by changing existing routines . |
| 17 | The text is based on ideas that have been developed through observations and trials in the classroom — they are offered in the spirit of exploration rather than in supplying definitive answers to the designer 's problems . |
| 18 | We firmly believe the key to long term success lies in engaging as many ‘ actors ’ as possible in the process of habitat and species protection and enhancement , rather than in requiring one authority to perform a clinical , curatorial role . |
| 19 | He may have been unusual , but that would lie in the range of his talents rather than in possessing any individual one of them . |