Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather [subord] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ whether … its members can work as a team while they are apart , contributing to a sequence of activities rather than to a common task , which requires their presence in one place and at one time . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , any classification of drug users will be somewhat arbitrary and open to debate , and the present scheme was devised for practical reasons rather than as a conceptual model . |
| 3 | The sea , too , was considered good for health and the fashion for sea bathing was originally for health reasons rather than for a jolly seaside holiday . |
| 4 | These are particularly useful to describe situations where events occur in parallel or in patterns rather than in a single series . |
| 5 | In all these cases regional incentives might be important , but only in the context of a need to reduce costs and an ability to move , rather than as the initial motivation , and as part of a bundle of considerations rather than as a separable ‘ factor ’ . |
| 6 | It involves only small changes to existing slurry disposal practices , the chief one being that slurry is applied through injectors rather than through a discharge nozzle . |
| 7 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 8 | Which he uses for parties rather than as a restaurant . |
| 9 | In the general election of 1983 , 63 per cent of the vote for the Liberal-SDP Alliance was motivated by dislike for the other parties rather than by a positive liking for their own party of choice — still less for their policies . |
| 10 | This is in accord with the volcanological model developed recently by the BGS team for the Lower Borrowdale Volcanic Group , in which the group is one element in an extensive plateau-andesite lava field erupted from numerous fissures and vents rather than from a central volcano . |
| 11 | A functional is a quantity or function which depends upon the entire course of one or more functions rather than on a number of discrete variables . |
| 12 | The enterprise sometimes came to acquire the character of an amusing game , not particularly relevant to present-day interests : immediacy was lost as the content was determined by someone else 's theoretical concerns rather than by a passionate and resentful , if intermittent , opposition to some particular intrusion of government . |
| 13 | The analysis should therefore be seen in the same way as the steady-state results of the previous Lecture as an indicator of the effects rather than as a prediction . |
| 14 | Even if this shift is due to the availability of cheap labour power in other countries it is by no means obvious that socialists should support long-run protectionism : it may represent considerable progress for a ‘ Third World ’ worker to be exploited by capital in the production of labour-intensive commodities rather than by a landlord . |
| 15 | The restatement holds that no identical systems will emerge , and that the convergence of industrial societies is towards a range of alternatives rather than to a particular point . |
| 16 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 17 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |
| 18 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 19 | I employ comparison in order to get to grips with relations rather than as a realist method of generating ‘ … conceptually informed causal analysis ’ ( Dickens et al . , |
| 20 | Indicative Drug Budgets will act as an aid to monitoring the prescribing costs of GPs rather than as a direct cash payment to them from which they pay the pharmacists . |
| 21 | In many cases , however , it is expressed as an intermittent grumbling of practitioners rather than as a systematic counter-argument . |
| 22 | However , floating has occurred previously , as in 1973 , because of a breakdown in fixed exchange rates rather than as a result of a collective decision based on an assessment of its relative advantages . |
| 23 | Because the system makes local optimal decisions rather than on a sentential basis , an incorrect decision early on in the sentence is unlikely to completely ruin the decisions later in the sentence . |
| 24 | The term ‘ local state ’ gained critical acceptance and helped place on a new conceptual stage the mass of research and political activity that had gathered around local , or community , politics since the late 1960s. for those on the radical left , the state , and of course the local state , came to be seen as a site of competing political interests rather than as a neutral set of administrative institutions . |
| 25 | Where it is determined that it is appropriate to report shares issued by subsidiaries in consolidated financial statements within minority interests rather than as a liability , it is necessary to determine whether they represent an equity or a non-equity interest . |
| 26 | X/Open is pushing the DCE specifications through a fast track procedure for adoption , which means they go straight to a vote by its members rather than through a prolonged period of technical evaluation , work already done exhaustively by OSF in any case . |
| 27 | The restrictions generated by rational expectations models are very often non-linear and are also imposed across equations rather than in a single equation . |
| 28 | The current observational evidence suggests that the luminosity of the Galactic Centre is generated by a cluster of luminous stars rather than by a black hole . |
| 29 | The goal of psychoanalysis was the development of a new set of techniques for use in psychiatry , and in this context dreams tended to be treated as neurotic symptoms rather than as a normal aspect of experience . |
| 30 | We are concerned with the quality of relationships as expressed by contrasts rather than with a direct concordance of ethnographic fact . |