Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did the manner of its interpretation mirror the existing grammar school education of 20% of twelve-year-olds rather than the needs of the rest , the majority ? |
| 2 | ‘ By expanding Eastham Country Park we will at least be making use of the land for the benefit of the people of Wirral rather than just have it lying there . ’ |
| 3 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 4 | The remainder have in many cases , however , devoted more resources to traditional means of advertising rather than adopted new media . |
| 5 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 6 | As well as bleeping , they can be programmed with the silent option , alerting the user by means of vibration rather than sound . |
| 7 | Wordsworth 's earliest reading is remarkably similar to that of Charles Dickens ; it consisted of folk-stories and eighteenth-century novelists , works of imagination rather than of fact . |
| 8 | The 1975–6 fighting may have been the beginning of the final struggle over the Covenant between Arabism and the West , although in physical terms , it involved a series of horrors rather than battles ; Black Saturday on the Ring motorway , the Palestinian massacre of Christians in Damour , the Christian massacres of Palestinians at Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar . |
| 9 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 10 | There may be a case for replacing her with someone else later , having a series of nurses rather than a permanent one , in case she becomes overemotionally involved . |
| 11 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |