Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house . |
| 2 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 3 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 4 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 5 | In the General Prologue portrait of the Reeve — a portrayal which leans heavily on conventional attitudes of hostility towards the lords ' men , the peasant officials amongst the peasants , in medieval English satire — the Reeve is presented as a man who provokes suspicion and fear : and as a man who , by being identifiable as one of a type rather than an individual , attracts the prejudices associated with that type . |
| 6 | Some choice theorists attempt a reconciliation with this legal doctrine by purporting to show that consideration provides a test of the deliberateness of a choice rather than an imposition of a paternalistic or economically motivated control over the scope of enforceable voluntary obligations . |
| 7 | The Christian concept reverses this : we see sexual intercourse as the celebration of a relationship rather than the purpose of it . |
| 8 | In fact , it seems that this chintz was the product of a relationship rather than a society . |
| 9 | He knew that his gifts were those of a scholar rather than an administrator . |
| 10 | He said he left for the thrill of a start-up rather than the tedium of maintenance , indicating Silicon Graphics , MIPS new master , did not consider making the MIPS chip a universal standard as much of a priority as Sun does the Sparc . |
| 11 | Interestingly , few of the workers at the Beacon or Elfreda Rathbone had ‘ specialist ’ training , but they had experience of specialist segregated provision and an approach which focused on the ‘ special needs ’ of a child rather than on ‘ total needs ’ . |
| 12 | It 's a shame that it 's now become part of a genre rather than the opening salvo it might have been , since Juice now has an air of predictability about it . |
| 13 | They point out that the Faroese are generally well off and no longer need to hunt pilot whales or puffins to exist , and that the practice has become something of a sport rather than a necessity . |
| 14 | In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces . |
| 15 | Boards with wider tails are more suited to jumping since they will leap off the top of a wave rather than digging into it . |
| 16 | He had admitted some years before that his prose was that of a controversialist rather than a " thinker " and this is what emerges in The Idea of a Christian Society . |
| 17 | In this respect the role of an auditor may be likened to that of a watchdog rather than a bloodhound . |
| 18 | It is far safer to regard the P/E ratio as an indicator of market sentiment about the future prospects of a company rather than a basis for a systematic forecasting technique of future earnings . |
| 19 | In Derrida 's writing the science of semiology is replaced by grammatology which , as he says , takes the form of a question rather than of a new science . |
| 20 | 4.2 Learning Outcomes have been amended to reflect the actual competences the student will have on successful completion of a module rather than reflecting knowledge acquired by the student . |
| 21 | Classification , he shows , involves selection and isolation of elements whose meaning derives from their being part of a system rather than from any intrinsic significance . |
| 22 | In my experience of doing exams , and I 'll talk to you about revision techniques in a minute , erm generally you 're better off to have a broad coverage of a syllabus rather than having a shallow one , right ? |
| 23 | In many ways , the framework developed in this and the following chapters is consistent with Paasi 's definition of a region rather than his usage of place . |
| 24 | Is video better suited to one stage of a lesson rather than another ? |
| 25 | There are many people now , by no means all scientists , who habitually talk of the parameters of a situation rather than describe what is happening , of infrastructural problems when the trains are late , of the sexually dimorphic aspect of Homo sapiens when they mean that men are generally larger than women . |
| 26 | Flexing over several atoms , that is , transverse string-like vibrations of a chain rather than longitudinal or rotational vibrations will obviously require extra room . |
| 27 | It was almost like the death of a pig rather than a human . |
| 28 | Self-employment is by no means the guarantee of self-fulfilment , nor of the satisfaction of a need rather than the means of satisfying other needs . |
| 29 | But when he handed her a cup of coffee and sat down opposite she saw that his face held the cool , ascetic look of a lawyer rather than the heated sensuality of a lover . |
| 30 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |