Example sentences of "rather [subord] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear from the Government 's autumn statement that pressure on public expenditure is likely to get worse rather than better for the foreseeable future , and that any developments must take place within such a framework . |
| 2 | These are the characteristics of the International Stock Exchange 's own Taurus programme rather than one of the signs of the zodiac . |
| 3 | Then why did he put her up at Ascot rather than one of the top jockeys ? |
| 4 | Already , Mr Hobbs said , United Airlines was flying to Paris rather than one of the London airports , and Delta was using Frankfurt . |
| 5 | It is useless to speculate why he chose him , rather than one of the monks of Bec or Caen who had been at Canterbury throughout Lanfranc 's tenure of the archbishopric . |
| 6 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 7 | Were the Bowes Museum located in London rather than one of the greener parts of County Durham in the north of Britain it would surely rank alongside the Wallace Collection in prestige and public affection . |
| 8 | And equally in our new case we can say that your belief is unjustified because nothing you can point to suggests that this is a case where your belief is true rather than one of the ( admittedly rarer but still ) indistinguishable ( to you ) cases where it is false . |
| 9 | But even among these writers the predominant conception of organizational crime is of individual traditional crime , in the form of the various kinds of dishonesty committed by corporations , rather than one of the violation of the host of criminally-enforceable regulations to which organizations are subject . |
| 10 | Many experiments have used purpose-built probes rather than one of the standard techniques . |
| 11 | The coherence , the progression , one can argue , lies in the eye of the curriculum planner rather than that of the individually different children who experience it haphazardly , often guided into a general context by the pastoral strength of their form tutor who may not always see the whole picture themselves . |
| 12 | But experience tells us that adaptive behaviour most often reflects the intelligence of evolution rather than that of the animals it has so carefully programmed . |
| 13 | The dominant undertaking will be able to give binding directions to the public company in the light of the group 's overall interest rather than that of the public company alone ( so over-riding the present UK approach of treating companies as separate entities even if they are in a group ) . |
| 14 | Unusually , the wedding is taking place at the groom 's home rather than that of the bride , whose mother lives in a sizeable mansion outside Newmarket . |
| 15 | In its treatment of a split in 1980–81 within the people 's Redemption party ( PRP ) , Radio Nigeria decided to recognize Aminu Kano 's leadership rather than that of the rival faction . |
| 16 | For the moment , however , it suffices to point out that our usual conception of logic — reasoning things out from abstract first principles — resembles the behaviour of the men in Gilligan 's study rather than that of the women . |
| 17 | There is also a growing tendency in the carpet trade to market rugs from certain parts of the world under the name of the weaving group whose design has been used , rather than that of the group who actually made the rug . |
| 18 | Similarly , some Shirvan-grade rugs use designs associated with other traditional groups ( Kazak , Daghestan , Erivan , etc ) and may therefore be sold under the name of the design , rather than that of the grade . |
| 19 | By virtue of the transfer of cattle the woman 's biological offspring are ordinarily deemed to be members of the descent group of the husband rather than that of the woman 's father ; payment of the cattle makes the children legitimate ; cohabitation alone does not . |
| 20 | There 's there 's I think there 's general consensus among most r around most of the table that a location south and west of York would would tend to meet the needs of the West Yorkshire conurbation , rather than that of the Y Greater York area . |
| 21 | This seems more like an eroticism created by rather than repressed by the social bond . |
| 22 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 23 | And after analysing statistics for five developed countries and reviewing results of similar studies , one researcher concluded that , " The most recent evidence indicates that the bulk of the adverse consequences of teenage childbearing ( for the health of children ) may be of social and economic origin , rather than attributable to the effects of young age per se " . |
| 24 | But to end it three issues must be raised , which have been implicit rather than explicit within the argument so far : the relevance of the lack of clarity within much policy ; the significance of value conflict ; and the importance of rewards . |
| 25 | In the XJS coupe , the result is a 10pc increase in power to 308bhp at 5350rpm , a 0–60mph time of 6.6 seconds rather than 7.8 with the old 5.3 and a spectacular top speed of 160mph with barely any loss in economy . |
| 26 | A characteristic I look for is that young people coming just out of university should be frightened by the responsibility they are given , rather than bored by the lack of demand that is made on them . |
| 27 | The photos — predominantly portraits — are unfortunately grouped in sections rather than printed alongside the text ( except , strangely , in the insignia section ) , but Mr Williamson is as punctilious as ever in pointing out interesting features of uniform detail . |
| 28 | And it makes no difference in terms of consumption that here they appear in the catalogue rather than inscribed on the surface of the image since the contemporary catalogue has claims to offer a unifying experience for the viewer . |
| 29 | But insurance is in Group 11 rather than 13 for the Astra , 14 for the Rover and Golf , and 15 for the Escort . |
| 30 | So , in tasks where the effects of fatigue are substantial ( Groups 3 , 5 , and 7 ) peak performance will occur about noon rather than late in the afternoon ( see fig. 5.5 ) . |