Example sentences of "rather [subord] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
| 2 | If she is over 60 when her husband dies , she will usually receive a retirement pension rather than a widows ' pension . |
| 3 | For a producers ' rather than a consumers ' perspective on agendasetting see Hetherington , 1985 ; Blumler and Gurevitch , 1986 ; Blumler , Gurevitch , and Nossiter , 1986 and 1989 . ) |
| 4 | Lower-class women who did not come into the black or immigrant categories would be expected to use the general waiting-room , rather than the ladies ' , which was largely the preserve of the well-dressed middle class . |
| 5 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 6 | Control is vested in their hands rather than the shareholders ' . |