Example sentences of "rather than [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is best lubricated with wax , rather than a water misting system . |
| 2 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 3 | It was the first time that an organization rather than a country had been allowed to join a UN organization . |
| 4 | Integration of primary and secondary care is central to an internal market driven by primary care and should encourage a needs led rather than a service dominated approach . |
| 5 | The Cobol approach to object-oriented programming will mainly be one of incremental re-engineering of venerable applications rather than a rush to write new programs , hence the need to retrofit new Cobol into old code . |
| 6 | The other available forms of pre-testing for print ads by means of survey research are all elaborations of the folder test — for example , an ad can be inserted into an actual magazine rather than a folder to provide something nearer to the real world . |
| 7 | The heroes of Under the Net and Lucky Jim follow a broadly similar path , bemused at lit by false starts and coming by the end to see the social world as it is : various , unstereotypable , kaleidoscopic and as fast-shifting as the shades of an opal , but in the end a place to settle into and improve rather than a system to defy . |
| 8 | She was the ‘ mad ’ one , rather than a person trying to get him to hear . |
| 9 | In so far as cost-of-funds matters lead to Japanese competitive advantage , it is more likely to be due to their willingness to take greater risks because of the low relative cost reported by Prowse ( 1986 ) and confirmed by Hodder ( 1986 ) , rather than a propensity to disregard DCF . |
| 10 | " Problem solving " was also referred to as a more global idea , or a process which prompts active thought rather than a question designed to initiate rote-learning techniques . |
| 11 | Surely confusion in the minds of the leading Protestants , pushed down strange paths by the increasing pressure of religious and political tensions , rather than a determination to rush upon revolution . |
| 12 | The analytical method , which has also been taken from Dicey , and forms part of this orthodoxy supposedly separates fact from value ; parliamentary sovereignty , for example , is viewed as part of ‘ the order of things ’ rather than a concept derived from a particular political theory . |
| 13 | Ballater sensed obstinate refusal rather than a willingness to bargain . |
| 14 | CHARLES 'S disappointment at the birth of a second son rather than a daughter marked the beginning of the end . |
| 15 | As house becomes a serious commercial proposition ( in a recent poll of 13- to 17-year-olds , nearly 40 per cent made ‘ acid house ’ their musical preference ) , many are going underground , viewing dance music as an art form rather than a way to generate karma with bank managers . |
| 16 | Labour 's Tony Blair said Britain needed a change of policy rather than a Premier hiding in his bunker . |
| 17 | They were like law reports , cases concerning this or that , rather than a narrative linking events in a chain as cause and effect . |
| 18 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 19 | Furthermore , most of the work to date has been a drive to demonstrate the technology rather than a response to demand from users . |
| 20 | Bremner 's decision to sue the Sunday People by taking out a libel action against the owners Odhams Newspapers Ltd and the player Danny Hegan , was an attempt to clear his name and retrieve his integrity rather than a money making scheme . |
| 21 | By late December , however , the president had , in any case , reversed his position and now took the view that rather than a tax increase a tax cut was required to stimulate the economy . |
| 22 | In advance of that , however , it can be noted here that as a generalization about the fabliaux , rather than a point to consider in relation to some fabliaux , her claim may go too far . |
| 23 | He saw the attachment to the Middle East by Britain as ‘ sentimental ’ , and wanted to redefine Britain as the easterly extension of a strategic area based in the USA , rather than a power looking eastwards through the Mediterranean to India and beyond . |
| 24 | All of which suggests that the government 's decision to pounce on the PAC was a reaction to threat and counter-threat rather than a conspiracy to undermine Mr de Klerk 's own negotiations . |
| 25 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 26 | Family health services authorities therefore have no effective managerial influence over general practitioners , resulting in a bureaucratic relationship concerned with regulation rather than a partnership devoted to improving patient care . |
| 27 | Unless firm steps are taken , the traditional residents of inner city areas are likely to become even more peripheral to mainstream national life and act as a drain on national economic growth rather than a resource contributing to it . |
| 28 | This in turn can lead us to query the legitimacy of judicial review , since it appears to be an ad hoc affair rather than a process governed by any firm and coherent standards . |
| 29 | For the first time , money purchase schemes have been allowed to contract out ( i.e. pension schemes that depend on the outcome of investments rather than a formula based on contributions ) . |
| 30 | If others can see them as an engine driving innovation around the world , rather than a sump draining it off , they may find there is much to gain . |