Example sentences of "the [noun] rather [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 2 | The move is seen as a spur to get IBM working on the case rather than a serious threat : rivals say they have n't been approached to propose alternatives . |
| 3 | But Darren Whitehouse faced a charge of possessing the drug rather than a supplying charge because police believed he was lying to protect his mother . |
| 4 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 5 | These various statements amounted to straws in the wind rather than a fully defined policy for ending the war . |
| 6 | Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing . |
| 7 | Thus the NMR structure must be considered as a description of the fold rather than a high-resolution structure . |
| 8 | Throughout 1985–86 North continued shipments of arms to Iran in a series of complex deals involving sleazy arms dealers , shady middlemen , Swiss numbered bank accounts , suitcases stuffed with dollar bills , and all the trappings of dishonest behaviour one would associate with drug smugglers and the Mafia rather than a member of the White House staff . |
| 9 | Bilingual children should be considered an advantage in the classroom rather than a problem . |
| 10 | The first half of 1988 showed an increase of that loss to £12m , but as Marsden points out , you need to take a yearly view of the business rather than a 6-month snapshot so such figures can be misleading . |
| 11 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 12 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 13 | And it is still if , not when though in this article I am assuming a working Tory majority in the Commons rather than a hung Parliament , which would change everything . |
| 14 | For the rest , it is merely letters after the name rather than a title before it . |
| 15 | However , unless they include well-amplified organ tones , they are a useful addition to the organ rather than a substitute for it . |
| 16 | It came in mid-morning , and brought them all slipping through the branches and the coarse grass to lie hidden on either side the narrowing of the path with their bows strung and their shafts fitted , listening for the soft thudding of hooves that came as a reverberation along the ground rather than a sound . |
| 17 | It is intended to serve as an introduction to the library rather than a detailed guide . |
| 18 | It might have been better in the present case to regard the omission to caution as a breach of the spirit of the Code rather than a breach of the Code itself . |
| 19 | But perhaps this is a strength in the theory rather than a weakness , since the new quadripartite analysis will have a coherence that was previously lacking ; it provides an explanation in the fourth clause of what was before included by mere stipulation , that knowledge requires truth . |
| 20 | Of course , before Adler 's theory can be rejected on these grounds , it would be necessary to investigate the details of the theory rather than a caricature . |
| 21 | Within Europe , France scored badly for " concern with an image of the environment rather than a real strategic choice " . |
| 22 | Where an excess applies on the basis of a percentage of the value of the claim rather than a fixed amount , the application of the clause will be determined by the actual amount of the excess to be applied when the cost of damage has been assessed . |
| 23 | For example , both radio and television may be perceived first and foremost as entertainment ; or a particular national newspaper may be considered to be primarily the voice of the government rather than a general organ of information . |
| 24 | Well we put pressure on , but I mean I 'm so I still governments tend to feel that the normal family is is the nuclear family and as , as Susan said earlier one parent families are seen as a burden on the state rather than a valid new family in society . |
| 25 | To love one 's neighbour , she thought as she trudged resolutely up the Finchley Road , must surely often be an effort of the will rather than a pleasurable upsurging of emotion . |
| 26 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 27 | The orthodox legal position was re-stated namely , that where there is an effective reservation of title clause this does not constitute a conventional security device as it is a reservation of title by the supplier rather than a grant by the debtor of a jus in re aliena ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 28 | The anonymity of the studio rather than a Glyndebourne ambience — I realize there would have been huge problems with taking the performances live , but I 'm not sure Henry Wood Hall was the ideal solution . |
| 29 | If you are anxious about your blood pressure , go to the doctor rather than a department store where the service may be offered . |
| 30 | The family pathology may well be a result of the disorder rather than a cause . |