Example sentences of "rather than [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as we have seen in Chapter 3 , clinical aromatherapy ( without the use of massage ) can work wonders if applied in a holistic rather than a symptomatic way . |
| 2 | Roger was clever , she told herself , though in a thoughtful rather than a brilliant way . |
| 3 | You are likely to make a mess of it , lose your To Do list or confront people in an attacking rather than a rational way . |
| 4 | Self-evaluation requires you to be completely honest with yourself , but in a constructive rather than a negative way . |
| 5 | As I know from my own experience , crack , or free-base , is highly addictive , but in a psychological rather than a physical way . |
| 6 | If you delay it until he/she is two or three years old , it is probably because you are subconsciously thinking of discipline as something unpleasant rather than a positive way of giving direction and equipping the child for |
| 7 | Between ravenous bites , he did his best to answer questions about his mother and father , meant in a kindly , rather than an inquisitive way . |
| 8 | In practice , inter-Service rivalry only becomes unbridled when there is a danger — real or anticipated — of the balance between the Services being upset ; or of the structure of one of them being changed in a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary way . |
| 9 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 10 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 11 | Sir : Mr Stephen Campbell ( letters , 5 October ) asks if he is alone in thinking that personal injury awards should be increased in relation to libel awards rather than the other way round . |
| 12 | It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who , like Hegel , had argued about the primacy of ideas , especially the idea of the State , as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round . |
| 13 | They can be seen at No. 6 Via Guastella , a street named after the college rather than the other way around . |
| 14 | The aim of the game being to find out ways in which they do things better than you do rather than the other way around . |
| 15 | It seems to me that he tries the Bible before the bar of his own mind rather than the other way around . |
| 16 | I AM a fan and an observer of dogs and before the avalanche descends on me I must shout that , like Chris Joyce , our US Editor , I am well aware of the case against dogs but also know that the relationship is to human advantage rather than the other way round . |
| 17 | The conclusion the doctors reached , given the apparently poor response to food testing , was that the psychological problems were affecting the bowel , rather than the other way round , in the majority of patients . |
| 18 | ( It must also be said that only about one in ten of the adult population in Britain in teetotal and it could be that at least some people in this group are unwell , rather than the other way round . ) |
| 19 | However , James Valentine of the University of California suggests worms may have evolved from arthropods ( jointed-legged creatures ) rather than the other way around , because they had cavities in their middle layer ( known as coeloms ) which they used as skeletons to support themselves when burrowing . |
| 20 | Make the dog wag the tail rather than the other way round . |
| 21 | Under the deal , the Community will have to prove that it should take the decision , rather than the other way round as originally feared . |
| 22 | Throughout the post-war period , the policy has been to allow the exchange rate to adjust to costs rather than the other way round . |
| 23 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 24 | The approach would have to come from they rather than the other way around . |
| 25 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 26 | He argues that it is TNC 's approach to assessment which has determined the approach to curriculum , rather than the other way round . |
| 27 | It is probably better to think of team teaching as one eventual culmination of resource-based learning rather than the other way about , and some schools will usefully move towards it by stages rather than in one giant leap . |
| 28 | Unlike those stressed above , these are questions about the impact of social policy upon economic policy rather than the other way round . |
| 29 | whether , conceptually , it would be helpful to try regarding the house as an extension of the car , rather than the other way about , and experimenting with an internal trim based upon black simulated leather , with built-in ashtrays ; |
| 30 | In this situation production responds to the demands of marketing rather than the other way round . |