Example sentences of "[noun] rather [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the state as ; rising from an explicit or implicit contract among men to put themselves under ; single sovereign ( which could be a parliament rather than a king ) which would establish peace among them . |
| 2 | Its buildings were functional , housing engineering plant , looms , rope works and warehouses rather than the genteel families of Georgian businessmen . |
| 3 | It does nobody any favour to be termed a heavy drinker rather than an alcoholic . |
| 4 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 5 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 6 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 7 | One example given of a " dream " in this state of relaxed wakefulness reads more like a fantasy of wish-fulfilment rather than a sleeping dream account , although others were remarkably " dreamlike " . |
| 8 | We shall look at these functions in a moment , but it will be useful to think in terms of certain places in the landscape being the foci for single activities rather than a whole range of functions . |
| 9 | Characteristically , the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism . |
| 10 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 11 | ‘ At Boston , for example ( an A to B course rather than an out-and-back course ) in a year when there is a strong following wind , they 're going to set phenomenal times . |
| 12 | They too , therefore , have difficulty in arriving at a foreign policy reached by means of a unanimous decision rather than a foreign policy based on a majority decision . |
| 13 | What is particularly interesting is that the report implies that it was MI5 who endlessly delayed any decision rather than the prison authorities . |
| 14 | While there is a good deal of intuitive sense in the observation that social workers and teachers respond to financial and other economic incentives like most workers , it is a hypothesis rather than an empirically supported contention . |
| 15 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 16 | In North East Wales fireplaces are found on sidewalls rather than the upper end of the hall against the gable , as in South East Wales . |
| 17 | Although it is a Kunsthalle rather than a collection , Hamish Fulton 's wall text ‘ Rock Fall Echo Dust ’ decorates the entrance hall and Richard Wentworth and Swiss artist , Anne Sauser-Hall , are making small sculptures to be installed discreetly on the stairwell . |
| 18 | He wanted to be a winner rather than a good loser . |
| 19 | In a family in which ‘ asking ’ is always done by a threatening fist , and physical violence is the usual means of expressing ill-temper or frustration , the difference between welfare and ill-fare is the strength of the blow rather than the fact that it happened . |
| 20 | Since one usually needs to measure emission from only a small area of the viewing field rather than the whole field , a fibre-optic probe inserted in the light path would probably be the best method , with the light-pipe output directed on to a highly sensitive photoelectric cell or photomultiplier , whose output would also have to be calibrated against some standard phosphor . |
| 21 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 22 | What I want is an institute which is a centre for architects : a very different concept and one which puts the emphasis on the human capacity for individual creativity rather than the resulting artefact . |
| 23 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 24 | Moldavia , also a part of the Kievan state , was however a Latin rather than a Slavic community and had originally constituted part of the Roman province of Dacia . |
| 25 | Recent reports indicate that only 100 houses rather than the projected 200 per annum have been provided which suggests a rather slow take-off ( Gilg 1981 , p. 110 ) . |
| 26 | By the mid century respectable citizens were thoroughly alarmed at this revolutionary alliance , by then in the hands of the radical agitators and journalists of the cheap lodging houses rather than the instrument of conspirators in the clubs and lodges . |
| 27 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 28 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |
| 29 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 30 | It 's the beginning of the programmes rather than the end . |