Example sentences of "rather than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 2 | ‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 3 | Taking controlled deep breaths will calm you down and get you into a more relaxed rhythm rather than a state of uncontrolled panic . |
| 4 | Their determination was to confront their oppressors and overturn their prerogatives rather than a sharing of power , even by mutual agreement . |
| 5 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 6 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 7 | Familiarity with the scope and organisation of NACAB 's information system as well as knowing how to access the relevant information are the necessary information skills , rather than a knowledge of specific legislation . |
| 8 | For , large or small , the ‘ master ’ rather than the impersonal authority of the ‘ company ’ ruled the enterprise , and even the company was identified with a man rather than a board of directors . |
| 9 | To invoke again the earlier distinction between different kinds of transgression , the transvestite represents a subversive reinscription within , rather than a transcendence of , an existing order , while the hermaphrodite is often appropriated as a symbol of just such a transcendence . |
| 10 | The idea is that articulate language is a barrier to rather than a medium of communication and that if only this barrier could be removed , human beings would revert to a golden age of wordless , heartfelt communication . |
| 11 | Lamarckism was part of a rival world view , which stressed the ability of living things to transcend material limitations and which saw Nature as a harmonious whole rather than a scene of constant struggle . |
| 12 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 13 | There seems no a priori reason why the intellectual collapse of the radical bourgeoisie in the early nineteenth century should necessitate a single line of avant-garde response — rather than a multiplicity of struggles , which , instead of leading irrevocably to extreme Schoenbergian individualism , might , for example , ‘ preserve ’ ( that is reuse ) older elements , to be rearticulated to the interests of new group subjects if and when they emerged . |
| 14 | The emphasis of the ‘ tax credit ’ would be towards a form of tax relief rather than a payment of benefit . |
| 15 | Here , the subsidiaries would be shown in the group 's accounts ( which means the group shareholders ' accounts ) in terms of the net investment that the group 's shareholders hold ; consequently , the reporting unit would be the group ( from the shareholders ' viewpoint ) rather than a consolidation of the reporting units of the subsidiaries . |
| 16 | While it was at first related to a vocational interest in commerce and administration , it developed during the twentieth century into a specialist and academic science , rather than a field of practical commercial study . |
| 17 | Marginal implies that squatters are outside the system , rather than a part of it and , therefore , that they are outside the class structure . |
| 18 | Substitution of the to infinitive gives a somewhat different impression : the events seem to be evoked in a much more resultative fashion — as the fact of having been made to scream , the state of Byron 's feelings — that is , as an object of reflection rather than a recall of actual experience . |
| 19 | But a residual effect of the ‘ privatizing ’ of sexuality , and in particular of the construction of sexual deviance as an identity , a pathology of being , rather than a kind of behaviour in principle open to all , is that the challenge to this construction often itself remains imprisoned by the public/private dichotomy . |
| 20 | While it appears beyond dispute that ‘ a massive immigration and a strong economic upsurge ( meant that ) all sections of the economy profited from this growth ’ , Paris nevertheless remained during the whole of the period an area in which ‘ hand industry ’ predominated ; it was a capital associated with the production of articles of high fashion and luxury goods rather than a centre of heavy industry . |
| 21 | It consisted of an alteration of the relationship between law and morality that allowed the Committee to recommend a partial decriminalisation of homosexuality , rather than a defence of homosexuality itself . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the amount of any distribution received on such ordinary shares which will be treated as an income distribution rather than a return of capital will be increased to take account of the deferred repayment of premium accrued at the date of conversion ( see s210 TA 1988 ) . |
| 23 | The logic of the Act makes it appear an eccentric indulgence rather than a guarantee of fair procedures . |
| 24 | Bell goes on to make explicit a relationship between monolingual stylistic variation and bilingual behaviour : having two discrete languages available rather than a continuum of styles simply throws into sharper focus the factors which operate on monolingual style shift . |
| 25 | It held that God is the Creator ex nihilo thus implying a divide rather than a continuum of being between man 's soul and God . |
| 26 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 27 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 28 | This is because the balance sheet is a record of the financial position of the company at a point in time , rather than a forecast of future events . |
| 29 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 30 | The bad debt problem had its roots in a complicity of fatalistic acceptance and in viewing the debtors ' ledger as a single balance sheet entity which needed to be financed , rather than a composite of unsecured risks of many colours . |