Example sentences of "rather [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to do so could be seen as the prelude to a deliberate devaluation , rather than the logical consequence of the German action . |
| 2 | Had Shakespeare demanded reverberating resonance from his tortured prince he might have chosen to set Hamlet in the finest piece of neo-classical architecture in Europe rather than the rotten state of Denmark . |
| 3 | One area of dispute over the EFA 's development was apparently overcome , however , when the West German and UK Defence Ministers met on Jan. 22 , 1990 , and reportedly agreed to back the use of the proposed ECR-90 radar system to be developed by the British company Ferranti International , rather than the alternative West German-built MD-2000 system using technology under licence from the US company Hughes . |
| 4 | It relies on the physical age rather than the mental age . ’ |
| 5 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 6 | More part-time farmers saw this as a benefit rather than the full-time family farmer , who saw the present production levels as being near their maximum . |
| 7 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 8 | Simply because it does give a numerical score , rather than the subjective impression given by an interview , credit scoring may give a spurious and therefore dangerous impression of accuracy . |
| 9 | The Strategic Defence Initiative received $4,150 million , $1,000 million less than requested by Bush ; much of the money would finance deployment by 1996 of an initial , ground-based system of 100 interceptors capable of shooting down incoming missiles , rather than the space-based system conceived by Reagan . |
| 10 | The Presidents ' pact also ordered the introduction of full wage indexation to offset the effect of the price rises , rather than the existing system of compensation payments . |
| 11 | The committee also recommended a 1 per cent tax on all imports into the ECOWAS area as a means of raising revenue for the organization rather than the existing method based on yearly contributions from members . |
| 12 | As the narrator of The Prisoner of Zenda , Rassendyll is at first inclined to be deprecating about the relationships between ‘ the palace at Strelsau or the castle of Zenda and Number 305 Park Lane , W. ’ He is well aware that his brother , Lord Burlesdon , prefers to forget the misbehaviour , in 1733 , of Rudolf the Third of Ruritania and the Countess Amelia , wife of the fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll , which resulted in the transmission of certain characteristics ( ’ long , sharp , straight noses and a quantity of dark red hair ’ as well as blue eyes rather than the dark hue more common to the Rassendylls ) in several generations of the family . |
| 13 | A few new houses were under construction , using breeze-blocks rather than the traditional brick . |
| 14 | HOW , the unit trust companies asked , can investors be persuaded to keep at least some of their capital in their funds rather than the traditional haven of the building society ? |
| 15 | Increased agricultural production was only possible by using intensive farming methods , rather than the traditional method of leaving fields fallow one year in three . |
| 16 | He invited a non-native English speaker , one who could cast his net across several disciplines and one who would agree to talk freely from notes rather than the traditional script . |
| 17 | The stylish lines of the new Safrane , designed in-house at Renault , represent a ‘ two-and-a-half-box ’ saloon design incorporating a versatile hatchback layout rather than the traditional executive sector ‘ three-box design ’ . |
| 18 | This identification and sense of hope are technically possible in the home situation or in hospital but here is a serious risk that family members or medical and nursing staff will , by their own concerned actions intended to help the sufferer to eat , actually thereby enable the addictive disease to continue : there are few hinge the disease likes more than getting other people ( rather than the primary sufferer ) to take responsibility . |
| 19 | In the Incarnation , it is the humanness , rather than the male gender , of Jesus that is important . |
| 20 | Though it was still Mariella Frostrup , rather than the male presenter , having a cosy chat with the singer Kim Mazelle about her clothes and make-up , and exchanging details about their designer suits . |
| 21 | But learn to use " he or she " or , more elegantly , " they , them or theirs ' , as appropriate rather than the male form of the pronoun all the time . |
| 22 | However , the most striking developments in welfare services have been on the delivery side rather than the personal counselling aspect . |
| 23 | The er , book is based on an inaccurate and sometimes even fabricated evidence , due probably to the er , rather idealistic er , excitable ambitious er Bullett , rather than the peaceful like of Freud . |
| 24 | The significance of the data lies in the way that odd nitrogen is partitioned in autumn in the long-lived reservoir of HNO 3 , rather than the temporary reservoir of N 2 O 5 . |
| 25 | As prescribed by Mme Guérigny , French cures were altogether different from English ones — and many , if not most , were adminis-tered at the back rather than the front end . |
| 26 | The former Soviet republics have , for the most part , retained a single executive as their preference , based on the American or French model , rather than the collective type of executive found in parliamentary systems of the British model . |
| 27 | Nor did they have sufficient ‘ team spirit ’ , being overly individualistic and concerned with themselves rather than the collective good . |
| 28 | Most of the reference in the poem is made through the use of demonstratives , rather than the definite article . |
| 29 | Having thought he was hungry , he now realized that actually he needed anything rather than the overflowing plate of cholesterol the canteen at New Scotland Yard had provided with such admirable promptness . |
| 30 | The new processor is expected to operate in 8-bit mode rather than the 4-bit approach used in the MP-1 ( processors sourced from Sierra Semiconductor Corp ) ; theoretically , the MasPar architecture could be expanded to 64 bits . |