Example sentences of "[noun prp] rather [subord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be remembered that if one swings Spain ( as one must ) to close the Bay of Biscay , then the main Hercynian trend of the Iberian Meseta becomes an Atlantic rather than a Mediterranean direction . |
| 2 | And it is still if , not when though in this article I am assuming a working Tory majority in the Commons rather than a hung Parliament , which would change everything . |
| 3 | This demands a studio on a Sunday rather than a rainy , muddy field on a Saturday . |
| 4 | By the time the legates arrived , however , they were dealing with a king , not a duke , and the bishop of Sutri was satisfied with a general promise from Philip rather than a formal oath and he absolved Philip secretly . |
| 5 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 6 | In these four passages Nietzsche 's sister saw a prime piece of evidence for her brother 's " real " intention to write a big book about Greece rather than a short one about tragedy . |
| 7 | Apart from this belief in the straightforward truth of books which would now be seen as in differing degrees myth , with Adam as Everyman rather than a historical figure , for example , there was diffidence about the boundaries of science . |