Example sentences of "rather than a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis is on opening and closing legs rather than a bend and straightening of the legs . |
| 2 | For example , the icons are usually addressed by inputs from a mouse rather than a keyboard and many of their operational facilities are controlled by pull-down menus . |
| 3 | But there are certain conditions to this — provided the credit card belongs to an individual rather than a company and the mount involved is between £100 and £30,000 ( including VAT ) then you should be covered . |
| 4 | But there are certain conditions to this — provided the credit card belongs to an individual rather than a company and the amount involved is between £100 and £30,000 ( including VAT ) then you should be covered . |
| 5 | It was a statement rather than a question but , her voice barely above a whisper , Luce answered , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not really desperately important cos I can do it by using a list rather than a map but it 's just somehow easier to refer |
| 7 | He went to the woods in Massachusetts as a naturalist , rather than a writer or thinker ; his purpose was to disprove the theory , popular at the time , that plants and trees sprang spontaneously from the ground . |
| 8 | MRS is most likely to be caused by an airborne virus , rather than a bacterium or agent like that which causes BSE . |
| 9 | The larger purposes of perestroika , however , were ethical : it must revive moral norms , honesty and decency , without which man was ‘ merely a consumer of material values rather than a bearer and creator of spiritual values ’ . |
| 10 | Being the master — and comprehensive underminer — of so many styles has left Mason free to identify wholly with none of them ; style has become one of the objects , rather than a subject or a medium , or his music . |
| 11 | But it was theocratic kingship that was the foundation of his policy and his rulership rather than a kingship or emperorship that looked to the pope for sanction and direction . |
| 12 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 13 | More accurately , however , the Total Communication Approach is a philosophy rather than a method and as such is in contrast to ‘ the oral-way-of-life ’ oral-onlyism , or any restrictive , prohibitive , Limited Communication Approach . |
| 14 | Equally , most of its assignments involve only one person , rather than a group or team , and most are rather short — about three.quarters are of two weeks duration or less ( interviews with Manpower and the Federation of Recruitment and Employment Services ( FRES ) ) . |
| 15 | Chairman if it 's possible for the , for the pelican crossing to be , to be moved from one place can we ask Mr if it 's going to help the local neighbourhood in any way , we ask Mr if that is done yesterday rather than a review and then coming back to us in due course , let's get on with it if it can be done . |
| 16 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 17 | Men therefore learn to expect that their dependency needs will be met by a woman ( now a mate rather than a mother but a female none the less ) . |
| 18 | And although talking about poems ‘ as poetry ’ will imply an aesthetic reading rather than a culturalist or historical one , it must be acknowledged that there is inescapable culturalist and historical underpinning of the idea of a canon ; not all the poems to be read will have much aesthetic value . |
| 19 | Chief executive has , at various times , made what he sees is the case for the property audit to be carried out by a development company rather than a surveying or accountancy practice , claiming that the former can provide the ‘ multidisciplinary package ’ . |
| 20 | He was , however , a preacher and a man of goodwill rather than a leader and man of action so that a change of leadership had become desirable when he retired . |
| 21 | ‘ But it is an impact injury rather than a strain and basically it is sore and swollen . |
| 22 | She was now a companion and friend rather than a nursemaid and domestic servant ; she prepared herself to run her own household and developed her skills as a needlewoman . |
| 23 | He found one that took money rather than a card and dialled a number . |
| 24 | Cannon to them is flesh and blood rather than a camera or a camcorder . |
| 25 | At the same time , separatist politicsans were predicting that ETA would make its first action a kidnapping rather than a shooting or bombing . |