Example sentences of "rather than [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , care must be exercised in the analysis of unfamiliar languages , as demonstratives are often organized with respect to contrasts between participant-roles rather than simply to distance in concentric circles from a fixed deictic centre ( the speaker 's location at CT ) . |
| 2 | The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously . |
| 3 | But beyond that it 's fair to speculate on a shape closer to the Countach than the Testarossa , making use of juxtaposed flat planes for impact rather than subtly of line . |
| 4 | Nesri qualifies this with " in the beginning of [ Mehmed II " s ] sultanate " but joins Molla Yegan with Molla Husrev ( d. 885/1480–1 ) , Molla Zeyrek ( d. 879/1474–5 ? ) and Hocazade ( d. 893/1488 ) in the sentence so that the possible inference that he died earlier rather than later in Mehmed II's reign is rendered doubtful at best . |
| 5 | The Liberal Democrats would make education up to 18 compulsory although much of it could be done in the workplace rather than just in schools and colleges . |
| 6 | Gleneagles , for example , is now open all the year round rather than just in summer and autumn following a major investment in all-weather sport and leisure facilities . |
| 7 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 8 | In this chapter , I shall argue that Simmel 's assertion that his analysis is one of modernity rather than solely of capitalism should be taken seriously , and that the contradictions in modernity which he analysed are not resolvable through Marxist conceptions of a future society , but are dilemmas which have to be investigated as integral aspects of modern life . |
| 9 | And anyway I 'm going to leave that on one side now because it 's more erm a problem to reconciling Mill 's views about liberty with his views about a proper government rather than directly about governments , so I 'm just going to note that and move on now . |
| 10 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 11 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 12 | To opt out , it wants companies to prove their need for an ‘ emergency solution ’ and negotiate with the union rather than directly with workers . |
| 13 | The methodology supporting Pareto 's analysis is individualistic , resting on a view of human nature rather than directly on assumptions about society . |
| 14 | Are we right to fight for responses to be channelled through National offices , rather than directly to Waterloo . |
| 15 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |
| 16 | It should be noted that , unlike the institutions of the banking sector , OFIs lend primarily by the acquisition of assets , rather than directly by loans and advances . |
| 17 | We might be tempted also to say that other benefits of depreciation accounting would ensue , such as producing a charge in revenue accounts for the use of assets , rather than as at present for the financing of assets . |
| 18 | As far as informal carers are concerned , the evidence that families may be unable to take on extra responsibilities , and the less certain evidence that elderly people may prefer care by professionals , with help and support from the family , rather than entirely by kin , are conveniently ignored . |
| 19 | He had the look of an old man waiting outside the doctor 's office in a paupers ' hospital ; sent for , rather than there by choice ; content to wait ; apathetic as to what the doctor would tell him , because good news no longer existed and bad news was no longer bad , but merely an essential ingredient of his condition . |
| 20 | Jacobitism often grew out of disillusionment with developments which had happened since the Revolution , rather than out of opposition to the Revolution itself . |
| 21 | The City Editor of your sister newspaper showed the greater insight when , in April 1989 , he opined : ‘ It [ the Government ] tries to get us to swallow the ridiculous story that [ water ] privatisation is good for consumers , rather than merely for executives . ’ |
| 22 | More recently however , Abercrombie has suggested that the theory of ideology could fill a lack in the sociology of knowledge by linking ideology/knowledge with the social process rather than merely with classes or social groups : |
| 23 | The difficulty with this relief is that , throughout the period beginning when the employee acquires his shares and ending on the date on which the interest is paid , Newco must be a trading company or the holding company of a trading group , rather than merely in existence for one of these purposes . |
| 24 | The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure . |