Example sentences of "[adj] rather [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 2 | But this again was an administrative rather than a policy-making body . |
| 3 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 4 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 5 | A mile further on is White Scar Cave , the best known , most advertised and heavily patronised in the district and a compulsive halt for coaches and cars ; indeed , the large parking space , the roadside signs and shopping facilities make it a commercial rather than a show cave . |
| 6 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 7 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 8 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 9 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 10 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 12 | Well before such things had become commonplace elsewhere , campaigning for office in California was a personal rather than a party matter , depending on the candidate 's ability to attract funds , to put together a personal following and to master the available means of communication . |
| 13 | In 1939 fashions were similar to the 1960s vogue , which may explain why Mr Cross believed the girl was real rather than an apparition . |
| 14 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |
| 15 | As part of the denial of their own " family disease " they may believe that they themselves or the way in which they attempt to help others is what is inadequate rather than the capacity of the primary sufferer to receive the message of recovery . |
| 16 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |
| 17 | In the main such errors are easy to detect because the charges face the heraldic sinister rather than the dexter , but occasionally , if the charges are non-directional and the arms are impaled , the historian can be misled as to which was the husband and which the wife , and hence infer the wrong family name . |
| 18 | The LEA 's role in the Programme was an interventionist rather than a facilitating one : it devised PNP 's goals and strategy , and sought closely to influence and control the Programme 's implementation . |
| 19 | It could be used , as it was by Bacon and Mersenne , to justify an empirical rather than a rationalist approach to nature . |
| 20 | Of course actual authors are dialectically difficult to classify and my examples are fairly arbitrarily drawn , the diagram being illustrative rather than an exercise in exegesis . |
| 21 | The additional band migrating between N-Oct 3 and 5 was also observed in brain extracts after longer exposure , perhaps from binding of a cofactor to the N-Oct 5 complex rather than a dimer of N-Oct 5 which is expected to migrate slower . |
| 22 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 23 | Looking at him , do you seem to see a 25-year-old rather than a player of 35 ? |
| 24 | It is the prestige of winning this historic race that is important rather than the prize money , as the winner usually receives less than the runner-up . |
| 25 | Bell goes on to make explicit a relationship between monolingual stylistic variation and bilingual behaviour : having two discrete languages available rather than a continuum of styles simply throws into sharper focus the factors which operate on monolingual style shift . |
| 26 | The description of the jacket on the body also confirms its tentative identification as one of the two climbers , although a question mark remains over its colour — yellow rather than the red suits Boardman and Tasker were pictured wearing . |
| 27 | Despite some domestic political resistance — from its own right-wing rather than the opposition — it is determined to produce a major ‘ package ’ for the Chancellor 's visit to Poland later this year . |
| 28 | Furthermore , in forging a connection between juvenile employment and education , they helped to portray the transition as essentially an educational rather than a trade process . |
| 29 | She was interested in the modern rather than the ancient , preferring Nottingham to York , new country seats and their furniture , paintings , formal gardens , and waterworks to ancient houses , and contemporary manufacturing , mining , and drainage projects to antiquities . |
| 30 | But one problem about showing that is that Dennett has opted ( perhaps unnecessarily for his argument ) for a flow-chart explication , which is inherently a static rather than a process one . |