Example sentences of "a [adj] rather [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sources have a subtle rather than a very strong and obvious bias . |
| 2 | They estimate its thickness at between 100 and 400 m , and suggest that all the observations are consistent with its having a low rather than a high velocity . |
| 3 | Criminal laws aimed at regulating corporate activities tend to refer to a specific rather than a general class of behaviour . |
| 4 | However , the much higher phylogenetic conservation of this region within the Oct-1 proteins ( 88% sequence identity between Xenopus ( 42 ) chicken ( 43 ) and human ( 19 ) Oct-1 ) suggests this region plays a specific rather than a general function . |
| 5 | The audience , through the music , were beginning to laugh , and Busacher , sacrificing one of Lehar 's most romantic and loveliest passages of music to the emergency of the moment , speeded up the orchestra , gave the melody a light-hearted rather than a passionate lilt , and swore to himself that he would murder Gesner in the interval . |
| 6 | It is essentially a technical rather than a moral problem . |
| 7 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 8 | Importantly , quality costing is a collaborative rather than a competitive process in which the participants in the transaction share a common analytical framework , exchange information and recognize their mutual inter-dependence with the overall company strategy . |
| 9 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , in a speech to the House of Commons on Feb. 22 , said that reforms in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were likely to transform NATO into a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 11 | Both before and after April 15 attempts continued , especially through the mediation of the Arab League , to find a solution to what was increasingly viewed as a political rather than a legal dispute , centring on whether Libya would agree to extradite two men indicted by the UK and US authorities in November 1991 in connection with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner [ see p. 38599 for this and for separate French efforts to extradite other Libyans ] . |
| 12 | It was a devotional rather than a theological work . |
| 13 | But in either case there was a tendency for such borrowings , whether they were syllabuses , textbooks or examinations to become fossilised and consequently to represent a historical rather than a current picture of British educational practice . |
| 14 | The clubs were interested in what was termed ‘ wholesome recreation ’ and in keeping boys and girls ‘ off the streets ’ , and they expressed their concern through a social rather than a religious ethos , placing far less emphasis on Church and Bible , preferring instead to emphasize the ‘ making of men ’ ( albeit Christian men ) . |
| 15 | These are often infrastructural assets which have no determinable useful life , are not readily disposable , have no readily determinable market value , and which provide a social rather than a commercial service . |
| 16 | Grierson ( 1961 ) has suggested that seventh century coins have a social rather than a commercial significance . |
| 17 | However , most sociologists would argue that systems of racial stratification have a social rather than a biological basis . |
| 18 | Most sociologists would therefore conclude that the social status of blacks in the USA is the result of a social rather than a biological mechanism . |
| 19 | Fundamentally , it is a social rather than a psychological variable , its main purpose being to enable the researcher to compare individuals in such a way as to focus on differences between them with respect to degree of integration into a set of relationships which constitute a group capable of exerting normative pressure . |
| 20 | That the result is regarded as " Creole " , " Patois " etc. by the speakers is the result of a social rather than a linguistic process , in which two " opposing " codes , " ordinary English " ( i.e. British English , usually LE ) and " Patois " are construed to exist in the repertoire of speakers . |
| 21 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |
| 22 | From a scientific rather than a psychiatric standpoint , the most interesting aspect of these bizarre tastes is the opportunity they afford for witnessing the extreme chemical insults which the body can accept and overcome . |
| 23 | They see it as a scientific rather than a moral problem . |
| 24 | Detailed consideration of all aspects of multicultural mathematics can help ensure ideas are introduced from a theoretical rather than a random basis . |
| 25 | Liberals advocate the promotion of a free rather than a just society , based on the argument that , while we know what freedom is , we have no generally accepted notion of justice . |
| 26 | If preferred , calories can be averaged out on a weekly rather than a daily basis . |
| 27 | Until this point , the issue system was a modified Browne charging " system based on a weekly rather than a daily record . |
| 28 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
| 29 | A mile further on is White Scar Cave , the best known , most advertised and heavily patronised in the district and a compulsive halt for coaches and cars ; indeed , the large parking space , the roadside signs and shopping facilities make it a commercial rather than a show cave . |
| 30 | However , others saw a commercial rather than a political motivation behind the sale . |