Example sentences of "rather [conj] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |
| 2 | Most crucially , the report still viewed unemployment as something requiring periodic relief rather than with a sense of understanding of how relief and cure were bound up together . |
| 3 | Given that a very precise and reliable estimate of a required yield is unattainable anyway , the problems of both interdependence and estimation of covariances from key factors may be less severe if financial analysts work with the more homogeneous SBU as the unit of classification , rather than with a division which may contribute to various corporate business activities . |
| 4 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 5 | By the time English had situated itself as a centre of learning and teaching at all universities in the early 1930s , its ethos and evaluative criteria were those associated with a masculine profession , rather than with a programme of national cultural intervention . |
| 6 | As Squig Hunter teams normally carry one prodder between two models a Boss can be armed with a sword , axe or any other kind of hand weapon rather than with a prodder . |
| 7 | Rupert Stonebird would have sighed inwardly , for he was used to this particular joke , but explained politely — if anyone was still listening — that he was actually a lecturer in social anthropology , which was concerned with the behaviour of men in society rather than with the size and shape of their skulls . |
| 8 | The government 's concern was with the level of public expenditure rather than with the relationship between grant and local income by itself . |
| 9 | Group members ' perceptions of expected behaviour are concerned with bits of behaviour ( ‘ Can I make jokes in this group ? ’ ) , rather than with the behaviour as a continuing phenomenon ( ‘ Do I have a sense of humour ? ’ ) . |
| 10 | Often , the vendor will prefer to deal directly with the venture capitalist rather than with the management . |
| 11 | The Spanish Tribunal de Cuentas was virtually inoperative during the 1960s ( Fernandez 1970 ) and control in general suffered from one of the characteristic features of the Spanish administration , an excessive concern for legal form and precedent rather than with the substance of performance ( see Beltran 1977 : ch. 5 ; Medhurst 1973 : 163 ) . |
| 12 | Because Statementing is concerned with the allocation of resources rather than with the identification of needs strict limits are placed on the power of parents to affect the Statementing process . |
| 13 | It is true that much was written about the moral upbringing of children during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but this topic was itself clearly linked with the expectation of death , rather than with the hope of a balanced and integrated life . |
| 14 | But it is certainly intelligible , both as an account of the original motives inspiring such legislation and as the specification of an aim widely held to be worth pursuing , to say that the law is here concerned with the suffering , albeit only of animals , rather than with the immorality of torturing them . |
| 15 | Yes , there are other buttons and settings to use on the machine or carriages , but these deal more with the needle selection of the design , rather than with the way the actual stitch is formed . |
| 16 | This suggests that tantrums have something to do with the normal development of a child 's personality , rather than with the way they have been brought up — although the way they are handled can make things worse . |
| 17 | The first drafts of the play are concerned to set the pattern of action and feeling rather than with the exploration of individual characters — this formalistic approach to his task was demonstrated in the preparation of a later drama , when he used a blackboard to set out the play and used symbols to denote his characters . |
| 18 | The football authorities in England accepted the explanation and sided with Gallacher and the Newcastle team , probably as a gesture of national protocol rather than with the conviction that the Scot was telling the truth . |
| 19 | The latter question is concerned with a judgement of the aims of the course rather than with the functioning of the course . |
| 20 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |
| 21 | When seeking old routes ‘ by eye ’ rather than with the aid of a map , I have often found it useful to stand in the middle of an old bridge and look towards the nearest hills . |
| 22 | The Council 's objectives are wholly concerned with economic growth , rather than with the distribution of the benefits of that growth and as a result , the full participation of all members is possible without sectional positions being adopted . |
| 23 | The Council 's objectives are entirely concerned with economic growth , rather than with the distribution of the benefits of that growth and as a result , the full participation of all members is possible without sectional positions being adopted . |
| 24 | From the economic point of view , the problem is that in most cases the US antitrust process is concerned with deciding whether conduct has been illegal , rather than with the appraisal of the economic consequences of whatever conduct may have taken place . |
| 25 | Firstly , the notion that science is concerned with the production of a set of individual predictions rather than with the production of knowledge in the form of a complex of general statements is , to say the least , counter-intuitive . |
| 26 | It was obvious that the Dutchman had , very wisely , decided to take his chances with British justice rather than with the French . |
| 27 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 28 | Consequently it is with this , rather than with the aggregation and synthesis of disparate items of previous work and the distillation from them of new insights , that the volume is largely concerned . |