Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 4 | For the first time , money purchase schemes have been allowed to contract out ( i.e. pension schemes that depend on the outcome of investments rather than a formula based on contributions ) . |
| 5 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 6 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 7 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 8 | But in Stephen Jameson 's performance he looks like Beckett 's Pozzo or a Daily Worker cartoon of a bloated capitalist : bounced around the stage at one point like a rubber doll , he becomes a figure from a comedy of humours rather than a semi-Chekhovian fantasia . |
| 9 | The larger purposes of perestroika , however , were ethical : it must revive moral norms , honesty and decency , without which man was ‘ merely a consumer of material values rather than a bearer and creator of spiritual values ’ . |
| 10 | These men were wealthy and the rum was politeness rather than a bribe , particularly the effort of squeezing fresh orange juice . |
| 11 | If expense must be curtailed , then it is probably better to have a plentiful supply ( at least 100 ) of two or three sorts rather than a small quantity of many ; it can be exasperating to have insufficient blocks of a kind to complete a construction . |
| 12 | Their determination was to confront their oppressors and overturn their prerogatives rather than a sharing of power , even by mutual agreement . |
| 13 | Almost certainly because you have two laying hens rather than a pair ! |
| 14 | Like many other regular users , Nick prefers to hand over a print to clients rather than a slide . |
| 15 | The emphasis is on opening and closing legs rather than a bend and straightening of the legs . |
| 16 | I like them like that because what I tend to do with so I like them that big because then I can cut them up into sticks , stick them in the fridge , then if I feel like being naughty not ever so naughty because I 'm nibbling at carrots rather than a packet of crisps or something . |
| 17 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The capacity of any writing to act as an instructive auctoritee is scrutinized within the Nun 's Priest 's Tale in the auctoritees cited , all but one by Chauntecleer , in the " debate " over dreams which in reality consists of two opposed monologues rather than a dialogue . |
| 20 | And DOS word processing has got it 's priorities right — you get a clean screen , devoted to your words rather than a multitude of toolbars and menus . |
| 21 | Røst is actually a small group of islets rather than a single island , and a haven for birds in the spring . |
| 22 | Asquith 's 1915 government was only halfway to coalition ; it was in fact a coalition of parties rather than a coalition of men , and it was run so as to maximize continuity . |
| 23 | On the whole , these informal practices are conducive to the management 's organizational goals rather than a departure from them . |
| 24 | The book 's origins as a special issue of the journal Women 's Studies International Quarterly are all too apparent and it offers a series of partial glimpses rather than a coherent overall picture . |
| 25 | The domain of a functional is the set , or space , of all admissible functions rather than a region of coordinate space . |
| 26 | For the Foxton summit the average quantity of water available per month was given as 15,000,000 cubic feet , and the estimated loss through evaporation and percolation was 16,000,000 cubic feet , indicating a basic deficiency of 1,000,000 cubic feet rather than a positive supply . |
| 27 | The vendor may be prepared to accept some of the risk of not having the retention placed into a dedicated account or simply facing deferred instalments rather than a retention . |
| 28 | The organization very often mobilises the fear of aggression from competing companies rather than a mature dependent relationship with the enterprise and its management and so encourages people to submit to the power of supervisors : |
| 29 | It is this which strengthens claims that Richard 's usurpation was a series of panic responses rather than a coherent scheme . |
| 30 | It is this which strengthens claims that Richard 's usurpation was a series of panic responses rather than a coherent scheme . |