Example sentences of "rather than at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for example , the landlord has the right to break at the expiry of the twelfth year of the term , rather than at the expiry of the fourteenth year of the term , the tenant 's right to compensation on quitting may be halved . |
| 2 | The reefs in Denmark are surrounded by carbonate mudstones and in this case they probably grew on the upper part of the submarine slope rather than at the edge of the platform . |
| 3 | The kestrel is our most common falcon , but what a delight it is to see it hunting in a natural habitat rather than at the edge of a motorway . |
| 4 | The American experience of Rolling Stone and Creem had shown that there was an enthusiastic market for a new way of writing about music ; working on the assumption that readers were literate , broad-minded and critical in their evaluation of music rather than at the mercy of pop trends . |
| 5 | ( 8 ) A cash offer which falls for acceptance near the end of a fiscal year rather than at the beginning of the next fiscal year will not be particularly popular with accepting shareholders as it will make a significant difference to the payment date for capital gains tax ( see para 23.2.1.1 below ) . |
| 6 | A cash offer which falls for acceptance near the end of a fiscal year rather than at the beginning of the next fiscal year will make a significant difference to the payment date for capital gains tax . |
| 7 | You begin at the centre or main idea ( rather than at the top ) and branch out as dictated by the individual ideas and general form of the central theme . |
| 8 | It should be stressed that the boundaries of one scientific discipline very often overlap those of another and advances are made at these boundaries rather than at the centre . |
| 9 | The critical Marxist position , then , takes ideology as a concept formulable at the level of the mode of production , considered as a set of underlying structures , rather than at the level of class or social group . |
| 10 | The possibility that this sort of information is represented across an array of cells , rather than at the level of the single unit does , however , mean that single cell recording alone will not give us a useful answer . |
| 11 | What is needed , as one of his followers has pointed out , is an account of theories which deals with changes ‘ at the level of the limits and consequences of the epistemological configuration they represent ’ , rather than at the level of individuals . |
| 12 | In the main , therefore , its ideologies are to be found in the form of its embodied working practices and unquestioned assumptions rather than at the level of manifest policy statements . |
| 13 | This racist behaviour is rational , because such strategies of social closure are logically consistent with the aims of protecting white privilege , and this can best be done through organized forms of discrimination , rather than at the level of individual expressions of prejudice . |
| 14 | The differences between male and female connotations are really located at the level of semantics ( that is the level of meaning ) rather than at the level of syntax . |
| 15 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 16 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 17 | The legislation is aimed principally at those who present or direct plays rather than at the person who actually performs them ; the latter commits an offence only if without reasonable excuse he performs otherwise than in accordance with the director 's instructions . |
| 18 | Fluid medication should be given in the side of the mouth , rather than at the front . |
| 19 | The Celtic Church celebrated the feast days of the Virgin at the same time as the Egyptian Church , rather than at the time decreed by Rome . |
| 20 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 21 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 22 | The best time to start exercising is at the start rather than at the end of a dieting campaign . |
| 23 | We have , then , arrived at the beginning rather than at the end of a story . |
| 24 | Reporting back to the investors on a regular basis rather than at the end of the process is likely to be advantageous to the investors , and is essential in larger transactions as interim action may be required as a result of the investigation process . |
| 25 | So I 've added it in the middle , rather than at the end . |
| 26 | They heard it at the beginning rather than at the end . |
| 27 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 28 | She refers to the lines joining them as ‘ lines of force ’ , and states that pagans worship the Old Gods on these rather than at the power centres themselves which had tended to have been ‘ exorcized ’ by the Christians by the erection of chapels dedicated to St Michael . |
| 29 | In an indefinitely long game , the important point is that we can both win at the expense of the banker , rather than at the expense of one another . |
| 30 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |