Example sentences of "[adj] rather than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other side was the public sector , enjoying a monopolistic and low-risk position , responding to political rather than consumer preferences , and pre-empting investment funds from more productive areas . |
| 2 | Decisions on management structures may themselves be decided on political rather than efficiency grounds ( see Ch. 5 ) . |
| 3 | In addition , we know that most if not all of the public sector is subject to administrative rather than market forces and has its own peculiar system of industrial relations . |
| 4 | Progress was greater , for example , with developing management systems than with defining objectives , decentralization was developed more readily in field offices than in headquarters and policy divisions , and performance measurement applied more easily to inputs than outputs , and to administrative rather than programme expenditure . |
| 5 | This integration was largely affective , for the most part forging psychological or emotional rather than material bonds . |
| 6 | Overall , it seems fair to conclude that the right hemisphere does possess some word processing capacity , probably more so for the written than for the spoken word , for concrete or early-learned rather than abstract or later-learned words and for receptive rather than executive aspects of language . |
| 7 | These US estimates tend to emphasize direct rather than opportunity costs , partly reflecting the lower level of welfare support especially for the higher education of children . |
| 8 | There is a school of thought that claims that the ghetto was cleared for commercial rather than health reasons . |
| 9 | Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) . |
| 10 | A number of possible reasons have been identified for the rapid expansion of private sector residential care : the increase in the numbers of very old people , the reduction in long-stay hospital provision , cuts in local authority spending , and finally , the ‘ perverse incentives ’ of the social security system that encourages residential rather than community care . |
| 11 | Their quality as ‘ ideological forms ’ derives from their orientation to social rather than material relations . |
| 12 | Yet an argument could be made out for Haversian bone being linked with large body-size rather than thermoregulation techniques . |
| 13 | The choice of marine rather than aerospace technology makes the British Hovercraft Corporation 's new ferry the quietest and cheapest yet . |
| 14 | All in all , it is an instrument of legato rather than staccato character . |
| 15 | In the north , building design had much in common with northern Europe and primarily evolved from Lombard styles ; in central Italy , particularly Tuscany , coloured marbles were used as veneers in decoration both on the outside and inside of the buildings giving a colourful rather than plastic effect to the decoration . |
| 16 | Mr Nemeth , a strong adherent of neo-monetarist measures to resolve the country 's fiscal crisis , accused his party colleagues of failing to support him as head of government and claimed his resignation was guided by national rather than party interest . |
| 17 | It may be generally true that the natural language use which constitutes the goal of learning is realized by a focus on meaning rather than form , and is a matter of top-down rather than bottom-up processing , but the process of arriving at that goal , the development of the authenticating ability , calls for an effective internalization of form and capability of analysis which will allow for their use across a wide and unpredictable range of different contexts . |
| 18 | The empirical work may be seen broadly as implementing the simple framework set out in Section 9–1 ( applied to current rather than lifetime income ) . |
| 19 | If present at all , women are more likely to be found in less important and less influential bodies , at local or regional level rather than national levels , and on advisory rather than decision-making bodies . |
| 20 | The primary issues are industrial rather than country matters and concerned with survival rather than the quality of life . |
| 21 | As the season progressed I 'd become more aware of the gradual decline in the sharpness of my axes and crampons , bringing them more in line with mixed rather than ice climbing gear . |
| 22 | The climate is Balkan rather than north European ; springtime is lovely . |
| 23 | When a case manager is assessing needs for care we might speculate whether , for those with intensive care needs , it might be ‘ cheaper ’ for care managers to opt for institutional rather than community provision . |
| 24 | The use of social security benefits to fund private residential care which , it was suggested , offered an incentive towards institutional rather than community care . |
| 25 | This use of money from social security system to fund institutional care has created what has been termed ‘ a perverse incentive ’ to institutional rather than community care . |
| 26 | Most were routed into judicial rather than revenue appointments . |
| 27 | Thus labourism , now representative of working-class rather than trade-union struggle , is actually determined by forces outside that class . |