Example sentences of "[noun prp] rather than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the ordinary level of society we find Richard de Derby in London , and Ingelram de Waleys ( meaning Wales , though perhaps the town near Sheffield rather than the Principality ) in Shropshire . |
| 2 | I 'm not even sure I should be letting you talk me into taking the phetam to Fraxilly rather than the FedPol . |
| 3 | But their anger appeared to be directed at the Renault rather than the Jaguar . |
| 4 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 5 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 6 | Mortimer , armed with a Browning rather than a rifle , called out orders to his squad , and directed them to positions around the two-storey customs building . |
| 7 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |
| 8 | It was reported on May 23 that Lithuania 's Salcininkai okrug ( district ) had been proclaimed autonomous by its local soviet ( council ) and that it would continue to recognize the constitution of Soviet Lithuania rather than the independence constitution . |
| 9 | Certainly , from the beginning there were clear links with extra academic initiatives , especially in publishing : its editor for the whole of this period , R. B. McKerrow , was a partner in the publishing firm of Sidgwick & Jackson rather than an academic . |
| 10 | By normalizing its relations with China , South Korea accepted the Chinese position that Taiwan was a province of China rather than a country in its own right . |
| 11 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 12 | Must not theology , if it were to be possible at all , be established from the other side , by God himself — by the God who makes himself known to us in Jesus Christ rather than the God whom we choose to recognise in him , a God who comes from beyond ourselves to judge , redeem and save ? |
| 13 | For example , faced with the ratio of a two to one majority decision in the Court of Appeal as against dicta of three judges in the House of Lords agreeing with the dissent in the Court of Appeal and casting doubt on the correctness of the majority opinion , but not expressly overruling it , it is clear that the Court of Appeal must follow the dicta of the House of Lords rather than the ratio of their earlier decision , so paradoxically preferring the persuasive to the binding authority . |
| 14 | ‘ That it is Joan de Warenne rather than the lady Anne who accompanies you to the Tower , must be a close-kept secret , ’ Elizabeth Woodville told him , her mind working rapidly . |
| 15 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 16 | It 's not beyond the wit of the Tories to move in European people into the country , into this country in certain seats from the right in Europe to make sure those seats are won for them again , and I think it 's an extremely dangerous precedent to allow European voting if you 're not , if you 're just resident within Britain rather than a citizen . |
| 17 | It does not seem implausible to suppose , therefore , that it is the loyalism of the DUP rather than the evangelicalism of many of its leaders that accounts for its support , especially in the greater Belfast urban area . |
| 18 | My own view is that the proper applicant was probably Winchester rather than the applicant personally , but I regard this as a technicality . |
| 19 | This claim will be against Newco rather than the vendor , and the employees may also have claims for compensation for loss of office , taxable ( subject to the £30,000 exemption ) within the regime in ss148 and 188 . |
| 20 | Perhaps I 'm not suggesting this as a sort of erm a definite wording just as a s sug as a suggestion erm to the effect that the settlement should best serve the development needs arising in Greater York rather than the demand generated from outside the area . |
| 21 | He did not register much surprise at this important discovery , but it needs to be borne in mind that he supposed that he had reached islands near the eastern shores of Asia rather than a land mass inaccessible to the descendents of Noah ! |
| 22 | Blunt established his playing qualifications with the Green Wave — the nickname of a university team in New Orleans rather than a synonym for nausea . |
| 23 | Police believe Patrick Kelly was the driver of the lorry in North London rather than the gunman . |
| 24 | Speaking of the maximum number of jobs of 21,000 that could be associated with the Ove Arup proposal , British Rail says that these jobs would largely represent a redistribution of economic activity in Kent and London rather than the creation of new economic activity . |
| 25 | Mme Catherine Lalumière , secretary general of the Council of Europe , explains : ‘ Adoption of the Council as the framework for the Pharmacopoeia rather than the creation of a European pharmacopoeia was a quite deliberate choice . |