Example sentences of "rather [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 2 | Walker 's appointment as reader ( upgraded to professor in 1860 ) was significant , for he was the first to hold the post in its own right , rather than annexed to a professorship in another subject . |
| 3 | When a norm is internalized , it is part of a person , automatically expressed in behaviour , rather than regarded in a more detached way as a rule external to the self . |
| 4 | It was crude , a trifle unfinished and unformed — in any other Dream , she would have researched the externals rather than built on a whim — but it was what she wanted . |
| 5 | Ships are now built in modules rather than built in a whole from the base up in a dry dock , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun . |
| 7 | Most of us would prefer when ill or very elderly to be looked after by those we know and love rather than taken to a strange and unfamiliar place . |
| 8 | A significant proportion of the public must have the impression that their library services are regularly prey to the ad hoc , impulsive indulgence of liberal/authoritarian , prurient/puritanical , left-wing/right-wing librarians , rather than guided by a set of selection policies trying to achieve a balance of users ' and nonusers ' educational and leisure needs and preferences , circumscribed by statutory requirements , within the limits of financial reality . |
| 9 | The gospel was bound in a compact book form rather than produced as a bulky scroll , with paper made from cheap papyrus rather than the very expensive vellum ( i.e. treated skins ) ( Green 1979:125 ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , the government recently criticized those resourceful street-corner repair shops , where a spare part can be created with the most basic of equipment rather than ordered from a factory . |
| 11 | There is no intrinsic benefit gained from paying farmers not to produce food , or from paying for food to be stored and destroyed rather than sold at a fair market price . |
| 12 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 13 | The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee . |
| 14 | The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee . |
| 15 | Burger was very thin and very tall ; he sat back in his armchair , his bony frame draped rather than clothed by a grey light-weight suit . |
| 16 | Such tasks may have been stated so that they are open to interpretation and worded so that they are accessible to most pupils , rather than aimed at a notional difficulty level . |