Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective . |
| 2 | There are however two difficulties which render this advantage hypothetical rather than real . |
| 3 | Other computer games stocked would be at knockdown prices because they were two or three months old rather than the ‘ latest thing ’ she said . |
| 4 | It was also feared that the market maker system might be by-passed by large powerful institutional investors doing negotiated deals with member firms who carry out the trades in-house rather than through market-makers . |
| 5 | Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Be aware ’ does of course recommend a sensibility open rather than closed to new impressions , but even the most greedy for new experience can not embrace joy and suffering with equal fervour , there is always a bias in favour of the enjoyable . |
| 7 | The older woman seemed to find the story intriguing rather than depressing . |
| 8 | The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence . |
| 9 | The rebels — whose version of Islam is North American rather than Arabian — went to jail , and the outside world forgot about them . |
| 10 | Miss Rose-Marie , the micro-celebrity , is 35 years old rather than 29 as she claimed ; |
| 11 | They are by nature reactive rather than pro-active . |
| 12 | Plainly a lot to ask of anyone — far more than a momentary invasion of privacy , which can be bad enough — and it is an argumentative point that paradoxically makes self-sufficiency sound humble rather than arrogant . |
| 13 | It means that the communication might be less opportunistic and more frequent with the targets selective rather than whomever happens to be in the group . |
| 14 | Can I mention er that I 'm very disappointed that C P O's are n't coming back under the fold I understand the arguments for and against , but when you look at erm the knowledge that two of our new recruits have got , in relation , one in relation to fraud and one in relation to terrorism , it seems ironical that they 're divisional staff and ca n't go round the force giving their expertise force-wide rather than just on er a basic divisional |
| 15 | If Dennis can maintain parity in the midst of such vested interest , then the credit really should rest with McLaren International rather than the drivers , neither of whom has had an entirely blemish-free season . |
| 16 | Often a horse will try to find his balance by holding his head high rather than finding balance on his hocks . |
| 17 | There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy . |
| 18 | There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy . |
| 19 | A court martial rather than a discussion . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 22 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |
| 23 | Which way would the liquidity preference curve shift ( or swing ) in the following two cases ? ( a ) A general movement of employers towards paying people monthly rather than weekly . |
| 24 | Flight gull-like rather than tern-like . |
| 25 | Such theories lead logically to leaving older people alone rather than attempting to improve the quality of their lives through continued social engagement . |
| 26 | Is his illness political rather than physiological ? |
| 27 | Its members serviceable rather than specialists in this particular early 17th century idiom . |
| 28 | Bell goes on to make explicit a relationship between monolingual stylistic variation and bilingual behaviour : having two discrete languages available rather than a continuum of styles simply throws into sharper focus the factors which operate on monolingual style shift . |
| 29 | His voice brusque rather than sympathetic , he observed , ‘ You 're shaking like a leaf . |
| 30 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |