Example sentences of "[noun] rather than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the state as ; rising from an explicit or implicit contract among men to put themselves under ; single sovereign ( which could be a parliament rather than a king ) which would establish peace among them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although it is a Kunsthalle rather than a collection , Hamish Fulton 's wall text ‘ Rock Fall Echo Dust ’ decorates the entrance hall and Richard Wentworth and Swiss artist , Anne Sauser-Hall , are making small sculptures to be installed discreetly on the stairwell . |
| 4 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 5 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 6 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |
| 7 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 8 | Strictly , this latter should be called a skill description rather than a task description . |
| 9 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 10 | In the absence of a clear candidate of the right next time , some MPs suspect that Mr Tebbit may be manoeuvring to become a serious outside runner rather than a king-maker . |
| 11 | The reddish-fair head , Celtic-Roman , with chiselled features and long , indifferent lapis eyes , belonged to a statue rather than a man . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 14 | When he says Truth is God he is really making a confession of faith rather than a statement in the indicative mood . |
| 15 | Stencil is the personification of a procrustean function rather than a character in any realistic sense , partly a parody of such questing scholars as Robert Graves , partly an imitation of the obsessed protagonist in Nabokov 's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight . |
| 16 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 17 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 20 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 21 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 22 | It was a vote of faith in Draper 's musical judgement rather than a demonstration of Branson 's own , but the decision was the right one . |
| 23 | At the beginning of the decade , opening a bank account was a privilege rather than a right , and customers organised their financial lives round the inflexible routine of their local branch . |
| 24 | The making of a claim was a privilege rather than a right , and claimants would therefore be expected to heed whatever rules had been in force . |
| 25 | So that 's er I mean you probably know we do , I do a talk erm I call it a story rather than a talk , and I say I hope it 's interesting as a story . |
| 26 | He asserted that the spread of home and shares ownership was causing an enterprise culture to take root in which more indigenous companies will spring up , creating the opportunity for Scotland to become a headquarters rather than a branch economy . |
| 27 | In a keynote speech on the economy , the Scottish Secretary will set out his desire to see Scotland develop into a headquarters rather than a branch economy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some , including soff , tief , cruff are identifiable as of Creole origin by virtue of their pronunciation , ( and in the case of tief also by its use as a verb rather than a noun ) which distinguishes them from their Standard counterparts soft , thief , scruff(y) , which have no special meaning within youth culture . |
| 30 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |