Example sentences of "rather [subord] [prep] the [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
| 2 | Many biographers fall into a category which might be described as scholarly but not academic in that they are written by professional writers for an educated general readership rather than for the narrower market of academic specialists in a particular subject . |
| 3 | He spoke on a radio programme on which Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley defended AIDS spending cuts , saying the campaign should now be aimed at ‘ groups most at risk ’ rather than at the wider population . |
| 4 | As Hood ( 1979 , p. 20 ) points out , government agencies are increasingly operating ‘ in multiple and dense networks of cross-cutting territorial , functional and hierarchical relationships , and within an overall context of … government by grants and by indirect administration rather than by the older pattern of directly hired bureaucrats at the centre ’ . |
| 5 | Family members become more interested in the home and more inclined to follow their leisure pursuits in the home rather than in the wider community . |