Example sentences of "[adj] rather [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 32 | Walt Disney also suggested that Shere Khan , the villain of the piece , was aristocratic and regal rather than the slavering , growling heavy that he had been in development . |
| 33 | He chose ‘ the dog 's path ’ , and chose it consciously , because it was the crooked rather than the straight , it created difficulties , and those difficulties fed his art . |
| 34 | A court martial rather than a discussion . |
| 35 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 36 | However , I shall certainly consider whether her suggestion could be included and I am sure that she is right to suggest the positive rather than the negative . |
| 37 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 38 | Action to deal with offenders was to be taken on a voluntary rather than a court basis where possible . |