Example sentences of "[vb pp] rather [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fearon , his swarthy face as white as a ghost beneath the tan , removed his hard hat slowly , the last to do so , and with an angry look at Green as if he felt the financier had somehow insulted rather than honoured the lifeless form sprawled on the flagstones . |
| 2 | Old unresolved conflicts may need to be exposed rather than hidden or disguised . |
| 3 | This is not only because of the harmful effects they can have on the physical self but also because the need for them indicates a severe deficiency in the emotional self — a deficiency which needs to be helped and treated rather than disguised . |
| 4 | On the other hand , churches with poor workmanship , of small size , and altered rather than rebuilt , may well indicate poor localities , or a lack of interest in the church . |
| 5 | Although we have argued for the view that law is differentiated rather than monolithic , we have to stress that there do exist common factors and interrelations , both within specific arenas and within the legal system as a whole , that have to be considered . |
| 6 | However , since the study is conducted in an area known to most of the subjects it is important that the memories reported should be specific to the drive just completed rather than general knowledge about that area of Cambridge . |
| 7 | Storage heights of 50 m appears to be a distinct possibility , racked rather than stacked goods to be the general trend and an increasing degree of automation to be likely . |
| 8 | Skills ( rather than facts ) will be emphasised , and individual engagement in the world prized rather than some one-way transmission . |
| 9 | With older people , who have lived through the period when new ‘ miracle ’ allopathic drugs have appeared to offer a solution to all pain and ill-health , it is these prescribed rather than proscribed drugs that will be the main problem . |
| 10 | It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs . |
| 11 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 12 | He had a degree of concern for the vanquished Germans , and respect for them as individuals , which taught me another valuable lesson , and which still makes his name in Wilhelmshaven one which is honoured rather than reviled . |
| 13 | However , the left , broadly defined , is being courted rather than spurned . |
| 14 | A small sharp nose was imbedded between pudgy cheeks on which the threads of broken veins were emphasized rather than disguised by a thin crust of make-up . |
| 15 | The results of the segmentation which follows from the expectation of interruptable time can be traced in the increasingly familiar forms of television fiction : an extended , rather than condensed form of the novelistic , in which attention is dispersed rather than concentrated ; highly populated narrative communities in which causality is less essential than character to the sense of continuity ; a narrative structure which need not end ( because not driven by causality ) , but which , if it does end , may end arbitrarily . |
| 16 | Third , bureaucrats are expected to be politically committed rather than neutral as in the West . |
| 17 | Since 1980 , the Home Office has collected its own crime figures through the British crime survey , which attempts to gauge the total number of crimes committed rather than those notified to the police . |
| 18 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 19 | ( In fact , this is an important question because empirical studies suggest that both c and v are less than 1 , so damped rather than explosive cycles are likely . ) |
| 20 | The iron grip Guy had used to subdue her had relaxed into a hold that now cradled rather than constrained , and yet she could n't lift so much as a finger to defend herself , could barely summon the will to press her face harder against the bed in a futile attempt to escape that warm , spine-tingling touch . |
| 21 | Shooting is extremely difficult and more often than not the fox is wounded rather than killed outright . |
| 22 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 23 | Such terms are effectively imposed rather than agreed . |
| 24 | So check from time to time whether pictures should be retaken rather than reordered . |
| 25 | We would also point out that prior to the seventeenth-century scientific revolution the universe was seen , by European men , as a great chain of being , connected rather than atomistic , necessarily related to humanity , rather than being a ‘ neutral domain of facts , of contingently correlated elements , the tracing of whose correlations will enable greater and greater manipulation and control of the world ’ ( Taylor , 1985 , p. 134 ) . |
| 26 | ’ ’ A controlled hierarchy , selected rather than elected . ’ |
| 27 | Finally , if income were plotted against another interval level variable , the relationship would almost certainly be curved rather than straight . |
| 28 | However , there will be concern that one of the two Capesize tankers under construction is an internal order — the plan is for the ship to be leased rather than sold . |
| 29 | The answer is , the desire to please oneself is always expanded rather than fulfilled , which means it quickly loses appreciation of the normal and seeks the exotic . |
| 30 | But Emeth is saved , for good deeds done for Tash belong to Aslan , and bad deeds for Aslan to Tash ; as if to say that God and Allah are different , but yet that virtuous Mohammedans will be saved rather than murderous Christians . |