Example sentences of "rather [subord] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTVEC 's Board has agreed that the local officers should now be known as Field Officers , rather than their former title of External Moderator , because the new title reflects much more faithfully the way in which their jobs have evolved over the five years of National Certificate 's life . |
| 2 | Staff should be trained to spot and interpret residents ' wishes from their behaviour rather than their spoken words if communication is difficult . |
| 3 | The majority of the discussion so far has been concerned with the assessment of children 's artistic rather than their aesthetic development . |
| 4 | to understand this so they may go to their immediate selfish interest rather than their long-term interest . |
| 5 | Manuscripts are usually sent to two or three reviewers , chosen for their expertise rather than their geographical location . |
| 6 | He suggests that their orientation is towards the perceived therapeutic needs of the patient rather than their legal rights . |
| 7 | In fact , the social democrats secured the compliance of workers rather than their zealous support , but that was enough to safeguard the Establishments of most of Europe . |
| 8 | They assessed life events using the Holmes and Rahe checklist which ranks events according to the life change involved rather than their negative implications , and therefore includes seemingly positive events such as marriage . |
| 9 | Thus , the activities of different Myc+Max dimers primarily reflect the equilibrium between Myc+Max and Max+Max complexes rather than their absolute efficiencies ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 10 | The imminence of a Labour government may have persuaded some of the middle class to consult their interests rather than their tender consciences , and so return to the Tory fold . |
| 11 | This reinforces the view that what upset the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords in Bromley v. GLC was , above all , the way in which the Labour majority went about implementing their election promises rather than their statutory powers to do so . |
| 12 | Ford believed , in fact , that putting colleges with the CNAA rather than their local university meant for students that ‘ academically they might as well take the train to London ’ . |
| 13 | Comparing Ohmann and Halliday as representatives of these two schools of thought , we can establish approximate correspondences as follows : OHMANN ( 1964 ) HALLIDAY ( 1970 ) ( A ) " content " ( A ) Ideational function ( phrase structure ) ( B ) " expression " ( B ) Textual function ( optional transformations ) ( C ) — ( C ) Interpersonal function ( The equivalences here are very approximate , and are based on what Ohmann and Halliday actually do in their analyses , rather than their theoretical positions . |
| 14 | Social relations rather than their cultural vestments have priority . |
| 15 | Thus differences in pay and prestige between occupational groups may be due to differences in their power rather than their functional importance . |
| 16 | As far as the first point is concerned , there is I believe a real appeal for many people , not least on Christian grounds , in arguing that the overriding need at present in the U K is for the government , the TUC and the CBI to sit around a table and talk , so that both corporations and unions will change their behaviour and act in the public interest rather than their own self-interest . |
| 17 | The church is using state money rather than their own money and it was felt that the church had become another agency of the state in this regard . |
| 18 | Their Lordships also upheld the trial judge 's refusal to allow the defendants to put any evidence before the jury about why they believed that nuclear weapons , rather than their own actions , were ‘ prejudicial to the safety … of the State ’ . |
| 19 | These often involve vowel sounds having their Creole rather than their expected London pronunciations . |
| 20 | The coins are legal tender but are traded for the value of the precious metal they contain , rather than their nominal face values . |
| 21 | The museum , set up in the 1780s by his great-great-great-grandmother Izabela , was the first didactically historical museum in Europe ( both the famous ‘ Lady with an Ermine ’ by Leonardo that starred in the National Gallery of Washington 's recent ‘ Circa 1492 ’ exhibition and the remarkable Rembrandt landscape were collected for their historical associations rather than their artistic merit ) . |