Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather [subord] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Schneiderei 's six-member managing committee of writers , musicians and visual artists ( Margaret Bozionek , Heinz Conrads , Jutta Rinas , Ingrid Roscheck , Manos Tsangaris and Thomas Witzmann ) abhor the description ‘ alternative ’ , but the collective 's soft-sell policy by which works are sold to further the gallery 's own activities rather than for profit has helped it to weather the uneasy times faced by traditional commercial galleries . |
| 2 | The sea , too , was considered good for health and the fashion for sea bathing was originally for health reasons rather than for a jolly seaside holiday . |
| 3 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 4 | The other constraint on the speaker is that the word-meaning chosen must also be one which is conventionally accepted as used for entities rather than for properties . |
| 5 | In this sense the scene is clearly one of hazard problems looking for improved GIS rather than for GIS looking for good problems , as is all too often the case . |
| 6 | Unison doublings do not help much , if at all , except in the case of high trumpet parts being doubled in unison by clarinets to give steadiness and confidence to the trumpets rather than for any definitely musical result ( e.g. clarinets have been used with great success to double the extremely high trumpet parts to be found in the works of Bach and Handel ) . |
| 7 | Such evenings are for cementing business relationships rather than for discussing specific aspects of business . |
| 8 | The dilemma for the author writing for readers rather than for listeners is to avoid delaying the source marker for too long , and yet to avoid destroying the dramatic effect by placing it first . |
| 9 | This is because figures were usually calculated for groups of speakers rather than for individuals , a practice which seemed to fit in neatly with Labov 's theoretical position that the locus of systematic variation was the group rather than the individual . |
| 10 | Most shaikhs collected for welfare purposes rather than for compensation . |
| 11 | ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’ |
| 12 | Classic examples of the use of crops for industrial purposes rather than for food are : the production of ethanol for fuel from sugar cane in Brazil and from maize in the USA , and alcohol from potatoes . |
| 13 | It was further suggested that the principal value of the new statement might be for reference purposes rather than for wide circulation . |
| 14 | The difference is that the tank provides for the passive task of soaking items rather than for the active role of washing . |
| 15 | For his universally lauded efforts , successful or continuing , to help resolve diplomatically such issues as Namibia , Afghanistan , Iran-Iraq , Western Sahara , Central America , Kampuchea , Cyprus and the Middle East , Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar is deemed a ‘ classic bureaucrat ’ , while the peace-keeping forces are recalled for their funny names rather than for their receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize last year . |
| 16 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 17 | This can be expressed very physically in the way breasts are now regarded as being for feeding babies rather than for making love , and most couples experience tensions over their sexual relationship in the early months and even years of parenthood . |
| 18 | In particular , they felt that enterprises in both Britain and Germany were having to cater for increasingly small market niches rather than for homogeneous mass markets . |
| 19 | For the most part , however , Elizabethans preferred to be remembered for their ancestry and achievements rather than for their piety , and in order to impress succeeding generations of parishioners , they incorporated into their monuments inscriptions , heraldic devices , and portraits of themselves in their lavish official robes . |
| 20 | Reformers were directing their energies , as we can see now , at many of the wrong targets , illustrating the typical nineteenth-century preference for moral campaigns rather than for structural social reforms . |
| 21 | Which of these items do you think have been produced by Royal Mail mainly for collectors collectors rather than for the public at large ? |
| 22 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,166 ) represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 23 | The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |