Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The larger purposes of perestroika , however , were ethical : it must revive moral norms , honesty and decency , without which man was ‘ merely a consumer of material values rather than a bearer and creator of spiritual values ’ . |
| 7 | These men were wealthy and the rum was politeness rather than a bribe , particularly the effort of squeezing fresh orange juice . |
| 8 | Their determination was to confront their oppressors and overturn their prerogatives rather than a sharing of power , even by mutual agreement . |
| 9 | Used in this way , the computer has become a valuable background resource in British schools rather than an agent of revolutionary change . |
| 10 | Electronic record keeping presents many new challenges , but these often require a reinterpretation of principles and methods rather than an abandonment of professional expertise gained to date . |
| 11 | Almost certainly because you have two laying hens rather than a pair ! |
| 12 | Like many other regular users , Nick prefers to hand over a print to clients rather than a slide . |
| 13 | The emphasis is on opening and closing legs rather than a bend and straightening of the legs . |
| 14 | I like them like that because what I tend to do with so I like them that big because then I can cut them up into sticks , stick them in the fridge , then if I feel like being naughty not ever so naughty because I 'm nibbling at carrots rather than a packet of crisps or something . |
| 15 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 16 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 17 | The capacity of any writing to act as an instructive auctoritee is scrutinized within the Nun 's Priest 's Tale in the auctoritees cited , all but one by Chauntecleer , in the " debate " over dreams which in reality consists of two opposed monologues rather than a dialogue . |
| 18 | And DOS word processing has got it 's priorities right — you get a clean screen , devoted to your words rather than a multitude of toolbars and menus . |
| 19 | Asquith 's 1915 government was only halfway to coalition ; it was in fact a coalition of parties rather than a coalition of men , and it was run so as to maximize continuity . |
| 20 | On the whole , these informal practices are conducive to the management 's organizational goals rather than a departure from them . |
| 21 | The domain of a functional is the set , or space , of all admissible functions rather than a region of coordinate space . |
| 22 | The vendor may be prepared to accept some of the risk of not having the retention placed into a dedicated account or simply facing deferred instalments rather than a retention . |
| 23 | A number of arguments is usually advanced in favour of a selected or key settlement policy for rural areas rather than a strategy of dispersed growth . |
| 24 | Modern law , Lowi has observed , ‘ has become a series of instructions to administrators rather than a series of commands to citizens ’ ( 1979:106 , italics omitted ) . |
| 25 | Until the second half of the century even the greatest powers still occasionally made use of multi-member embassies and there was still some surviving feeling that a ruler was particularly honoured by receiving a group of ambassadors rather than an individual . |
| 26 | The Cobol approach to object-oriented programming will mainly be one of incremental re-engineering of venerable applications rather than a rush to write new programs , hence the need to retrofit new Cobol into old code . |
| 27 | This vision of society contrasts with that of Marxism , which sees power in capitalist society as concentrated in the hands of the ( bourgeois ) ruling class , and society as primarily divided into two great opposing classes rather than a motley of interacting interest groups . |
| 28 | Even allowing that the list is incomplete , East Anglia seems to have contributed individuals rather than a connection to the ducal retinue . |
| 29 | Even allowing that the list is incomplete , East Anglia seems to have contributed individuals rather than a connection to the ducal retinue . |
| 30 | But to many of the naturalists actually involved , the new discoveries required only a revision of traditional ideas rather than a revolution . |