Example sentences of "[noun sg] rather [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose she 's thinking of Terry , she thought , and squeezed Sarah 's arm , although Believe Me If All had been Joe 's favourite rather than Terry 's . |
| 2 | The abolition of examinations , shortening the length of courses and open criticism of teachers and academic knowledge , among other features of the Cultural Revolution period , led to disruption and chaos rather than Mao 's goal of an egalitarian higher education system . |
| 3 | GEC Marconi , which employs 3,500 people in Simon Burns ' Chelmsford constituency , signs contracts with the Ministry of Defence rather than Swan Hunter . |
| 4 | Just south of it was the Jeanetta Cochrane theatre , where Haynes was working with , amongst others , Charles Marovitz , another exiled American , but , in his case , from New York 's lower east side rather than Louisiana . |
| 5 | The command which will stop a LIFESPAN Process is exactly the same as the startup command , except that you use LSSTOP rather than LSSTRT . |
| 6 | Op. 17 No. 2 ( Chopin 's nagging child rather than Schumann 's entreating child ) is surely over-pedalled , and an unspecified change of tempo in the central episode of No. 3 jars on repetition . |
| 7 | Corinth , then , not Sparta , was most nearly affected by the rapprochement between Athens and Megara in 460 and , consistently with this , it was Corinth rather than Sparta who fought Athens hardest in the war which now broke out , the First Peloponnesian War , of 460–446 . |
| 8 | In the case of another very early practitioner , Psiax , who also worked with Andokides but whose stylistic links are with Lydos and Amasis rather than Exekias , the highly distinctive hand is unmistakable in both techniques . |
| 9 | The attacks , all using an explosive base of fertiliser rather than Semtex , seem designed to prove the IRA 's ability to infiltrate even the most protected areas . |
| 10 | In one season alone Gallacher scored 46 goals for Airdrie , striking up an almost telepathic relationship with the club 's left winger Jimmy Sommerville , a name that conjures up images of late '80s gay-disco rather than Broomfield Park in the midst of industrial depression . |
| 11 | Once this connection is broken , Eastern Europe 's élites may make other arrangements ( as did Hungary 's Imre Nagy in 1956 ) on terms consistent with their own safety rather than Moscow 's . |
| 12 | Guernsey granite rather than Purbeck stone brought him wealth and he retired to Swanage in 1944 leaving his nephew George Burt to look after the firm in London . |
| 13 | We 've got scouse rather than Leeds tickets for Saturday , and I think I 've got a kop ticket for myself at the Oldham game . |
| 14 | Should you decide that you would prefer to knit your design in jacquard rather than Fair Isle , DesignaKnit can automatically separate all the colours for you in the way that is required for your particular knitting machine . |
| 15 | Remember that one of the purposes of the meeting is to show off the client and/or management team to the vendor , who is buying that team rather than KPMG . |
| 16 | It is the verdict passed on those who choose self rather than God . |
| 17 | But the tournament , held in the magnificent setting of Sun City , will be remembered for the incidents on the third day rather than Frost 's winning total of 276 . |
| 18 | On his own right , on the rising ground that led to a wood , and then to the moors and hills that rimmed the horizon , stood Cormac and Gillocher with the men of Atholl and Mar , and the church-banner of Tuathal , holding firm those men of Fife who had chosen to follow the King rather than Bishop Malduin , his acolytes , and his family . |
| 19 | Metrologie International SA 's Madrid-based subsidiary , Metrologia Iberica , distributes only Intel Corp 's products , but , taking a leaf out of Amstrad Plc 's book , will now sell them under its own name rather than Intel 's . |
| 20 | Oddly though , mine appears to be made by Fairy rather than Microsoft … |
| 21 | I do wonder if some of these are in fact the wild plum rather than Myrobalan , and I marvel that in summer we hardly notice any plum-like shrubs where we now see them so dominant over long stretches of banks . |
| 22 | going out with the dog rather than Shirley . |
| 23 | Larder was unhappy about the manner of the defeat , insisting : ‘ I felt that Widnes lost the game rather than Leeds won it . |
| 24 | If SDLP spread first preference votes geographically over the constituency as has been suggested , first preferences did favour O'Hanlon more than News but most transfers of votes to SDLP seem to have favoured News rather than O'Hanlon . |
| 25 | We may be suffering from the concept that sex was invented by the publishers of Playboy magazine rather than God , and this needs to be dealt with . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 27 | Crowned in Holyrood abbey rather than Scone because of the rebellious atmosphere around Perth and the southern Highlands , James II was left nominally in the care of his mother . |
| 28 | Brenner was the prince 's man rather than Gloucester 's , and was to be removed from office after Richard 's accession . |
| 29 | Brenner was the prince 's man rather than Gloucester 's , and was to be removed from office after Richard 's accession . |
| 30 | For the longer term , the Secretary of State proposes to replace the Burnham Committees by a Teachers ' Negotiating Group , with central government rather than LEAs in a majority on the employers ' side . |