Example sentences of "[v-ing] rather [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 2 | The two aims of increasing productivity and redistribution that have permeated agrarian thinking have often been seen as competing rather than complementary . |
| 3 | She was fun to be with , her eccentricities were amusing rather than irritating , she was kind and she was Sara 's contact with the father she had never known . |
| 4 | Although by and large novices to the art of sevens , the Namibians — the worthy winners of the World Cup Sevens qualifying tournament in Catania , Sicily — provided a sample of the Southern African perception of the shortened version of the game : hard running , support and tackling rather than silky skill and stealth . |
| 5 | I should be very reluctant to go back to anything like the old system , which gave a perverse incentive for landlords to provide board and lodging rather than other accommodation . |
| 6 | The expectation of an exclusively cash wage was developing rather than established , particular rather than general in the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 8 | All these were homespun recipes , comforting rather than refined . |
| 9 | Heavy drinking , spitting , and swearing rather than collective violence marked off the ‘ rough ’ from the rest — the self-controlled ‘ respectable ’ elements . |
| 10 | The resulting dish , which appears on page 49 , sounds filling rather than delicious , and should in no circumstances be flipped . |
| 11 | I can not know how she feels about that experience , but I think it must have been reassuring rather than distressing . |
| 12 | On the one hand , its emphasis on western-style academic rather than practical subjects created ‘ hothouse ’ institutions conducive to abstract theorizing rather than down-to-earth realism . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) Hedging or speculation : A contract undertaken for hedging rather than speculative purposes is , in some respects , less regulated than a pure speculative transaction . |
| 14 | This is to attempt to define information as either central or peripheral to the task at which the subject is engaged during encoding rather than central or peripheral per se . |
| 15 | Households with less privately-owned land which had to rely on the ‘ public economy ’ ( the forest ) for livestock rearing rather than private land , were less willing to see restrictions placed upon access to forests or to others ' private land for stubble grazing in cases where fodder tree planting on terrace backs was being advocated . |
| 16 | Researchers themselves are bound to adopt one social construction of the phenomena they are investigating rather than another and however objective their methodology , the chosen perspective can not be completely neutral , nor can social research be entirely value free . |
| 17 | Wouters ' dilemma is that the changes identified as being part of the process of informalisation appear to involve declining rather than increasing levels of ‘ affect control ’ . |
| 18 | Freed , furthermore , after 1870 from the embarrassment of the papal states and continually reinforced by its growing missionary societies , the Church was manifestly expanding in number and influence all through the first half of the twentieth century , when other large Churches were only too clearly declining rather than advancing . |
| 19 | Essentially , this is relaxing rather than educational reading . |
| 20 | Her manner was pleading rather than aggressive . |
| 21 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |
| 22 | Just as the statements of attainment reflect the experience and predilections of subject working groups , so the sequences in Profiles of Development depend on the authors ' underlying theory of teaching rather than any inexorable path of learning . |
| 23 | The time between administration of an oxytocic agent and cord clamping rather than fetal delivery and cord clamping may thus be critical . |
| 24 | ‘ If we think back to what I said earlier , perhaps understanding as such would be disabling rather than helpful . |
| 25 | In particular , the adoption of zero-base budgeting , so that the reversion level becomes zero spending rather than that previously agreed , may lead to an increase in the agency 's ability to pursue its own objectives — rather than the decrease commonly supposed . |
| 26 | The result is that more rather than fewer cases are created , with staff conforming rather than innovating , for they realize that it is difficult for their superiors to complain of their being too efficient or too industrious . |
| 27 | Mr Freedman said that the aim was to create a platform to propel the company into the future and promote services such as planning and consulting rather than just accounting , to help clients boost their profits . |
| 28 | Tests in which the temperature and/or humidity are changed at regular intervals and which , therefore , subject the pack to varying rather than static stresses , are sometimes more severe tests than continuous storage at one condition . |
| 29 | Some of those on the left have assumed that there is an inherent socialist majority in Britain which has failed to surface only because successive Labour governments , in pursuing a policy of managing rather than opposing capitalism , have never given that majority its political cue . |
| 30 | Seeing racism as determining rather than determinate , at the centre rather than in the margins , also means accepting that Britain 's crisis is centrally and emphatically concerned with notions of race and national identity . |