Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negatively this principle denies that comprehensive rationality is possible , because it requires information processing and computation capacities only possible of God rather than mortals ( Simon 1957a , p. 3 ) . |
| 2 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |
| 3 | Since science 's primary role is that of commentator rather than practitioner , the set of transformation rules and practices by which the radical 's dilemma is resolved have taken a special form . |
| 4 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 5 | His music often appears to be that of gesture rather than thought , he says , but only superficially . |
| 6 | The ‘ dialectic ’ here was that of Kierkegaard rather than Hegel . |
| 7 | Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable . |
| 8 | At a polling station in Kompong Cham , a photographer confronted by the sight of hundreds of voters rather than piles of corpses , spun on his heels and announced , ‘ This whole thing is a farce . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , the government recently criticized those resourceful street-corner repair shops , where a spare part can be created with the most basic of equipment rather than ordered from a factory . |
| 10 | The force of this interpretation is further strengthened by Mary Douglas 's observation that Lele women who produce twin births are compared to animals , since multiple births are characteristic of animals rather than of humans . |
| 11 | Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated . |
| 12 | where the vocabulary , the syntax , even the punctuation suggest a high honing of stylistic effect reminiscent of Gibbon rather than Swift , of Beckford rather than Defoe . |
| 13 | On balance , the general reaction to the greater social tranquillity was one of relief rather than euphoria . |
| 14 | What happened was that speakers gradually and variably began to use open [ α : ] in environments where [ a : ] had formerly been used : the process was one of substitution rather than change sensu stricto . |
| 15 | ‘ The problem today is one of quantity rather than quality . |
| 16 | ‘ The problem today is one of quantity rather than quality . |
| 17 | Our approach is to be one of evolution rather than revolution . |
| 18 | She had persuaded herself that her recoil from his touch had been one of distaste rather than one of recognised attraction . |
| 19 | This is somewhat confusing because the centre of interest may be jobs or skills rather than tasks , and strictly the procedure is often more accurately described as one of synthesis rather than analysis . |
| 20 | Another such verb is leave ; hence example ( 3 ) ( b ) from Chapter 4 , repeated here : ( 40 ) this process leaves the items date-stamped is in fact structurally ambiguous in three ways rather than two , since the final adjective may be a postnominal attributive , a predicate qualifier , or an adverbal ; it remains true , however , that the ambiguity is one of structure rather than a matter of elusive " shades of lexical meaning " . |
| 21 | The interests of the prosecution to secure a conviction and the interests of the defence to ensure that the verdict is one of manslaughter rather than murder may on occasion coalesce , so that it often appears — in reading the newspapers that consensus rather than conflict between prosecution and defence is the general order of the day . |
| 22 | The research by Portes shows that the difference between the squatters and the urban population is one of degree rather than kind , the implication being that they are disadvantaged within the system , rather than being outside it . |
| 23 | Any difference is one of degree rather than kind . |
| 24 | The distinction between task training and skill training is one of degree rather than kind . |
| 25 | Generalizations about the state of the towns in late medieval England are , however , risky ; each had its own history , which might be very different from that of its neighbour , and it is likely that even when more individual studies have been made of particular towns the general picture will be one of diversity rather than of similarity . |
| 26 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |
| 27 | Though the poet , in broad terms , castigates greed and disloyalty , his message is one of optimism rather than foreboding , and his concern is not with general crisis but a particular , personal cause for rejoicing . |
| 28 | But ‘ different ’ dreams need not necessarily be unpleasant ; they affect our waking consciousness , certainly , but the effect may be one of pleasure rather than torment — as with a sexual dream . |
| 29 | Craig was a fine catch , a handsome man and one of action rather than words . |
| 30 | In this chapter , I shall argue that Simmel 's assertion that his analysis is one of modernity rather than solely of capitalism should be taken seriously , and that the contradictions in modernity which he analysed are not resolvable through Marxist conceptions of a future society , but are dilemmas which have to be investigated as integral aspects of modern life . |