Example sentences of "[noun sg] rather than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the state as ; rising from an explicit or implicit contract among men to put themselves under ; single sovereign ( which could be a parliament rather than a king ) which would establish peace among them . |
| 2 | It does nobody any favour to be termed a heavy drinker rather than an alcoholic . |
| 3 | What is particularly interesting is that the report implies that it was MI5 who endlessly delayed any decision rather than the prison authorities . |
| 4 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 5 | Although it is a Kunsthalle rather than a collection , Hamish Fulton 's wall text ‘ Rock Fall Echo Dust ’ decorates the entrance hall and Richard Wentworth and Swiss artist , Anne Sauser-Hall , are making small sculptures to be installed discreetly on the stairwell . |
| 6 | In a family in which ‘ asking ’ is always done by a threatening fist , and physical violence is the usual means of expressing ill-temper or frustration , the difference between welfare and ill-fare is the strength of the blow rather than the fact that it happened . |
| 7 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 8 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 9 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 10 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |
| 11 | Hence de Man 's constant use of " reading " as a property of the text rather than an intervention from without . |
| 12 | Of the remainder , there are others where the abuse of trust is clearly evident but from the general text rather than the headline . |
| 13 | Strictly , this latter should be called a skill description rather than a task description . |
| 14 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 15 | In effect this means doing a PhD rather than an MD , and the message from the conference was that an MD is a devalued degree . |
| 16 | Quoting extensively from a textbook in a PhD thesis , for example ( especially if you treat it as an authority rather than as something for critical comment ) is likely to give the wrong impression : that you are a beginner rather than an expert in your subject . |
| 17 | Another form of sun-clock employing the direction rather than the length of the sun 's shadow was the sundial , but the Egyptians who invented it were far from understanding the subtleties involved in making an accurate instrument of this type , which must be calibrated for the latitudes of the different places where it is to be used . |
| 18 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 19 | In the absence of a clear candidate of the right next time , some MPs suspect that Mr Tebbit may be manoeuvring to become a serious outside runner rather than a king-maker . |
| 20 | The reddish-fair head , Celtic-Roman , with chiselled features and long , indifferent lapis eyes , belonged to a statue rather than a man . |
| 21 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 22 | When he says Truth is God he is really making a confession of faith rather than a statement in the indicative mood . |
| 23 | Firstly , the choice would be that of the GP rather than the consumer , and secondly , it is felt that the implied travelling to receive services would limit freedom . |
| 24 | We study different cultures and the communities that produce them , placing our primary emphasis on social relations and treating culture as a vehicle or medium for social interaction rather than an end in itself . |
| 25 | While this sort of requirement is a condition precedent to the contract rather than an expert clause , the status of the certificate is the same as that of an expert 's decision : see also 6.3.4 . |
| 26 | The right to use a lavatory will take effect as a legal easement ( Miller v Emcer Products Ltd [ 1956 ] Ch 304 ) as will a right to use a washroom ( Heywood v Mallalieu ( 1883 ) 25 Ch D 357 ) ; but a right to a supply of hot water is a matter of personal contract rather than an easement ( Regis Property Co Ltd v Redman [ 1956 ] 2 QB 612 ) . |
| 27 | Stencil is the personification of a procrustean function rather than a character in any realistic sense , partly a parody of such questing scholars as Robert Graves , partly an imitation of the obsessed protagonist in Nabokov 's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight . |
| 28 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 29 | Thus , it was the accustomed pace of change rather than the fact of an early start , which had already begun to place Britain at a disadvantage in competition against her major rivals at the beginning of the present century . |
| 30 | Had their remit been wider , they might well have discovered that many of the teachers ' anxieties about LMS arose from a lack of faith in school-level decision-making and a feeling of being somehow ‘ outside ’ the decision-making process : a ‘ victim ’ of change rather than an agent of it . |