Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 've seen you play , you seem to regard the fretboard from a horizontal point of view , playing along the strings rather than across the fretboard … |
| 2 | One other peculiarity she shared with the four Atlantic states : she had great extra-European interests , though they lay across land frontiers in Asia rather than across the sea . |
| 3 | The system also resulted in chants and songs being directed sideways to the rival fans , rather than across the pitch to the other end . |
| 4 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 5 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 6 | The direction in which the discussion of literature in the Introduction to the Man of Law 's Tale points , however , is towards a comparison of Chaucer 's writing with that of his contemporary John Gower rather than towards the survey of literary genres detached from the accidental circumstances of the identity of authors of specific examples of those genres that we find in fragment VII . |
| 7 | She felt her stroke was due to the fertility drugs she had taken before each pregnancy , rather than to the childbirth itself : for the fifth pregnancy she had received injections of the drugs for the first time . |
| 8 | It s Push approach to the head , rather than to the heart . |
| 9 | The denial of prejudice is strategic , but ‘ we thereby want to convey that the move is strategical only relative to the goal of ‘ making a good impression ’ , rather than to the goal of being ‘ sincere and honest ’ ( p. 127 ) . |
| 10 | In line with these more specific uses of the ‘ past ’ by specific groups , Goody 's claims for changes in perceptions of the past as a result of the development of literacy in classical Greece appear to refer specifically to scholars and intellectuals rather than to the society as a whole . |
| 11 | This is why the Campaign for Quality Television is calling for the money bid in the auction to go into programmes , rather than to the Treasury . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton will try to fudge the tax issue , arguing that most of the money will come from a wage-based premium , which will go straight to local health alliances rather than to the Treasury , and that much of the rest will come from ‘ sin taxes ’ — on alcohol and tobacco — which appeal to America 's Puritan conscience . |
| 13 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 14 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 15 | Commenting on ( 167a ) and ( 167b ) , he observes that only oblige can be followed by a " resultative structure " , whereas make " supposes a concomitance between causation and the actualization of the effect being caused , which forces the latter to refer to the operation itself rather than to the state which results from it " . |
| 16 | Spanish hostility was obviously a handicap to it , but when the charter was declared void in 1624 it was mainly because the Company was bankrupt ; the Spanish objection was to the colony rather than to the Company , and the colony was allowed to survive . |
| 17 | ( c ) The most efficient delivery arrangement will be direct from the builders ' merchant or manufacturer to an individual site , rather than to the builder 's store . |
| 18 | There are signs in the USA of more aggressive , sharper music which is directed to the listener rather than to the worshipper . |
| 19 | This anaemia is usually related to the presence of a lesion in the gastrointestinal tract , rather than to the drug itself . |
| 20 | They recommended that the committee structure should be linked to the objectives of the local authority rather than to the provision of particular services . |
| 21 | Revenues from Crown lands went increasingly to the Chamber rather than to the Exchequer and money was stored in the Jewel House of the Household . |
| 22 | I felt Niki was trying to be as much an elder statesman as a driver and though to say he was perfunctory in his driving would be an exaggeration , it was clear that he was looking to the future , and the development of the new engine , rather than to the present . |
| 23 | I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) that , because of our world empire , we looked outwards , across the Atlantic , rather than to the mainland of Europe . |
| 24 | They felt entitled to , and duly received , the customary genuflections that were accorded to their rank , but they belonged to the local ‘ house ’ rather than to the village . |
| 25 | The narrower the range of comparison , the surer we shall be that the stylistic features we are attributing to Jane Austen are peculiar to her style , rather than to the style of a larger category of writings " which includes hers . |
| 26 | They pointed out that near large towns horses were , in any case , more numerous than cattle , and that diseased cattle would be sent to slaughter rather than to the veterinarian . |
| 27 | Lastly , the applicants in the main proceedings pointed out that the conditions imposed by the Act of 1988 attached to the registration of fishing vessels rather than to the issue of licences to fish for quota stock . |
| 28 | The family in early times for Marx belongs to the private domain , rather than to the public and political . |
| 29 | In the UK , however , we are all subjects of the Crown rather than citizens , or ‘ customers ’ for government services at best , and records belong to the Crown ( in practice government departments ) rather than to the public . |
| 30 | must have been referring to R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) rather than to the Act of 1960 when he said that ‘ in cases of contempt , however , these powers will be used only in exceptional cases ’ because section 13 is solely concerned with appeals in cases of contempt . |