Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the mid century respectable citizens were thoroughly alarmed at this revolutionary alliance , by then in the hands of the radical agitators and journalists of the cheap lodging houses rather than the instrument of conspirators in the clubs and lodges . |
| 4 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 5 | It 's the beginning of the programmes rather than the end . |
| 6 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 9 | We believe that power stations should be fitted with clean coal technology and that energy taxes should be based upon emissions rather than the use of a particular fuel . |
| 10 | They were all sniffed at by the uniformed nannies , who wheeled old-fashioned perambulators rather than the canvas collapsibles . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the time of writing , the Soviet republics are declaring independence at the rate of about one a day and it must be open to question whether the entries will come from the separate states rather than the USSR next time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To the side of the sink , under the draining-board , were half-empty sacks and bags which contained cereals , wood shavings and what looked like the sort of seeds you feed to birds rather than the ones you roll with tobacco . |
| 15 | First , it will concentrate on the images on coins rather than the inscriptions . |
| 16 | They include non-work-related tasks to enable groups to focus on the process skills rather than the task skills . |
| 17 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 18 | Industrial policy is usually linked to promotion of exports rather than the protection of the domestic market per se . |
| 19 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 20 | Negative campaigning ( the concentration of campaign resources upon the discrediting of opponents rather than the presentation of policy initiatives ) had become a national issue , with widespread criticism of George Bush 's 1988 presidential election campaign . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | In analysing political action — that is to say , struggles for power — we need to look primarily at the activities of social groups rather than the actions of individuals , although the influence of particular individuals may evidently be a significant factor in some historical situations . |
| 23 | These men were wealthy and the rum was politeness rather than a bribe , particularly the effort of squeezing fresh orange juice . |
| 24 | We describe in the next section methods for building contigs which rely on ordering the probes rather than the clones . |
| 25 | Their determination was to confront their oppressors and overturn their prerogatives rather than a sharing of power , even by mutual agreement . |
| 26 | I thought of my interest as being in subjects rather than individual works ; showing subjects rather than the summation of an idea made my objective clearer and that meant presenting the complete thought process . |
| 27 | Used in this way , the computer has become a valuable background resource in British schools rather than an agent of revolutionary change . |
| 28 | Although in many areas votes were cast for individual candidates rather than the party which fielded them , analysis of the results showed that support for the AP had shifted markedly from urban to rural areas where government development plans and projects had made an impact . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Almost certainly because you have two laying hens rather than a pair ! |