Example sentences of "rather than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussions of plays , for instance , can often be seen to be founded on the undeclared assumption that a dramatic figure represents a self ( rather than a vehicle for dramatic ideas ) . |
| 2 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 3 | ‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 4 | Taking controlled deep breaths will calm you down and get you into a more relaxed rhythm rather than a state of uncontrolled panic . |
| 5 | It treats the elderly relative like a stray domestic animal , to be ‘ looked after ’ rather than ‘ cared for ’ , and ‘ offered a home ’ rather than a share in the life of the family , as someone who has something important to contribute . |
| 6 | Their determination was to confront their oppressors and overturn their prerogatives rather than a sharing of power , even by mutual agreement . |
| 7 | But if the cultural materialists tend to place a politics rather than a problem as the starting point of their enquiry , they do emphasize the deployment of specialized knowledges in the service of the popular political struggles of today . |
| 8 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 9 | The inner city becomes a problem of space rather than a problem in space . |
| 10 | By normalizing its relations with China , South Korea accepted the Chinese position that Taiwan was a province of China rather than a country in its own right . |
| 11 | THE WELSH used to be a hindrance rather than a help to the All Blacks but , by giving Grant Fox permission to practise his goalkicking at the Arms Park prior to tomorrow 's game with Cardiff , they might be contributing to their own downfall . |
| 12 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 13 | Familiarity with the scope and organisation of NACAB 's information system as well as knowing how to access the relevant information are the necessary information skills , rather than a knowledge of specific legislation . |
| 14 | One difference between a vintage wine and any other is that it is generally made from the grapes of only one year , rather than a blend from several . |
| 15 | A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach . |
| 16 | Last year in particular , it saw the introduction of TV into Fiji as an opportunity to redouble its efforts to ensure that the medium is a positive influence in the country , rather than a threat to culture and moral standards . |
| 17 | Last year in particular , it saw the introduction of TV into Fiji as an opportunity to redouble its efforts to ensure that the medium is a positive influence in the country , rather than a threat to culture and moral standards . |
| 18 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 19 | The capital accounts were dominated by the loan to the government , which was increased by a further £1m. in the 1740s , and it was the decline in interest paid on the government bonds rather than a fall in trading profits that led to declining dividends . |
| 20 | For , large or small , the ‘ master ’ rather than the impersonal authority of the ‘ company ’ ruled the enterprise , and even the company was identified with a man rather than a board of directors . |
| 21 | To invoke again the earlier distinction between different kinds of transgression , the transvestite represents a subversive reinscription within , rather than a transcendence of , an existing order , while the hermaphrodite is often appropriated as a symbol of just such a transcendence . |
| 22 | The idea is that articulate language is a barrier to rather than a medium of communication and that if only this barrier could be removed , human beings would revert to a golden age of wordless , heartfelt communication . |
| 23 | Taken together with our other data , this pattern represents a duplication of the r5 expression in r3 , rather than a delay in the onset of r3 expression . |
| 24 | Lamarckism was part of a rival world view , which stressed the ability of living things to transcend material limitations and which saw Nature as a harmonious whole rather than a scene of constant struggle . |
| 25 | But well heeled Frenchmen often wear political allegiances like fragrant button holes : it is part of their personal decoration rather than a constraint on their way of life . |
| 26 | Tabitha Campbell-Black was livid because she won a bag of Bailey 's Performance Mix horse feed rather than a T-shirt with a picture of a polo pony on the front . |
| 27 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 28 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 29 | There seems no a priori reason why the intellectual collapse of the radical bourgeoisie in the early nineteenth century should necessitate a single line of avant-garde response — rather than a multiplicity of struggles , which , instead of leading irrevocably to extreme Schoenbergian individualism , might , for example , ‘ preserve ’ ( that is reuse ) older elements , to be rearticulated to the interests of new group subjects if and when they emerged . |
| 30 | Such people , he added , were dominated by the notion of ‘ an end with horror , rather than a horror without end ’ . |