Example sentences of "rather than a [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Glider designers sometimes choose to fit a tail-skid rather than a wheel for simplicity and cheapness , saying quite rightly that they offer a little less drag . |
| 6 | They treat the statistics as a topic for sociological analysis rather than a resource for theory-building . |
| 7 | Heavy advertising has promoted cider as a yuppie drink , rather than a tipple for farmworkers and a succession of warm summers has also boosted sales . |
| 8 | Thus , the term ‘ extraordinary treatment ’ is a conclusion rather than a starting-point for analysis . |
| 9 | And the aim is that the conversations are going to be anonymous and they are trying to compile a dictionary of words that people actually use , rather than a dictionary for people who do crosswords . |
| 10 | Blunt established his playing qualifications with the Green Wave — the nickname of a university team in New Orleans rather than a synonym for nausea . |
| 11 | Education must be an adjunct to rather than a substitute for psychotherapy , but it is worthwhile if it does no more than alert the patient to the dangers of behaviours such as laxative misuse . |
| 12 | He wore a sword , but it had the light , ceremonious quality of a court decoration rather than a weapon for use in earnest . |