Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , practice data are standardised for age by converting list sizes to prescribing units and prescribing costs are expressed per prescribing unit rather than per patient . |
| 2 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 3 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 4 | His distress could have been alleviated with treatment far earlier if he had been diverted into the hospital system straight from the police station , or direct from the court , rather than via prison . |
| 5 | Hodge had pursued policies from his arrival in Korea designed to strengthen the opposition to communism and to move away from rather than towards cooperation with the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | The existence of the process element means that evaluation is usually oriented towards detection of need for change rather than towards choice between temporally co-existing alternatives . |
| 7 | It will be far better for us all if we move towards a greater understanding of each other rather than towards Clause 28 and all that . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that Truman was influenced more by a determination to warn the Soviet Union and to compel cooperation in eastern Europe rather than to procure Japanese surrender in itself . |
| 9 | Further problems highlighted by the chapter are the failure to recognize ethnic diversity and differences ( Asian is used to describe people from' India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , for example ) ; over-simplification of correlations and exclusion of environmental and societal influences ( e.g. attributing a black child 's intellectual and emotional impairment to parenting rather than to school and/or other family and community ) . |
| 10 | Get it to analyse specific behaviour and situations rather than to censure you as a person . |
| 11 | The mayors ' plan , targeting $35 billion in fiscal assistance , public works , community development black grants , job training , and low-interest small-business loans , has been taken up in Congress where it has met the famous legislated ‘ wall ’ , which prevents shift of military funds to social programmes rather than to deficit reduction . |
| 12 | This , in fact , referred to the sequestration of a clerk 's benefice by the bishop rather than to excommunication , but its principle was all-embracing and even included the servants of royal servants . |
| 13 | The easiest way to solve the problem is to feed a high-fat , complete food which has been scientifically balanced for the working/hyperactive dog , rather than to play around with the ingredients yourself . |
| 14 | And secondly , priority for the milk which is available , and which is strictly distributed by the Milk Marketing Board , is given to normal milk suppliers or to sectors whose products have a limited shelf-life , such as yoghurt-makers , rather than to cheese or butter manufacturers . |
| 15 | For the latter it is better to buy a tape , or to make your own , and listen to that , rather than to try to do it yourself as you go along . |
| 16 | If we are to explore the actual and perceived experiences of students , it may be better to work from their views rather than to try to squeeze them into some predetermined mould through questionnaires and attitude Inventories . |
| 17 | As the Roman polymath Pietro della Valle observed in 1640 madrigals were now not often sung , ‘ nor is there occasion to sing them , since people prefer to hear singing freely by heart with instruments in the hand rather than to watch four or five companions singing with book in hand at a table like schoolboys ( che ha troppo del scolaresco e dello studio ) ’ . |
| 18 | When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " . |
| 19 | The ( Iraqi ) Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdistan Democratic Party on Oct. 4 issued an ultimatum to the PKK to leave Iraq by Oct. 5 , their aim being to force the PKK to leave rather than to kill or crush them . |
| 20 | Eventually , formal administrative structures were created between the Task Force and local government , but the Task Force 's determination to implement specific projects rather than to help create a broader and longer-term strategy for the conurbation inevitably created tensions . |
| 21 | His or her job is to deal with the child 's physical needs ( e.g. arising from incontinence , lack of mobility or impaired speech ) rather than to help teach the whole class . |
| 22 | It is useful to compare differences rather than to look for one shape in isolation . |
| 23 | Might it be easier to measure this rather than to look directly for structural changes ? |
| 24 | It 's a more importantly to make sure it 's normal rather than to look for a problem with it but Now you 're not trying to escape , are you Jade ? |
| 25 | Recruitment adversiding advertising for example virtually ground to a halt as businesses started to shed er , people , rather than to look for them . |
| 26 | It 's far better to undertrain at a consistent level rather than to overtrain , which inevitably leads to staleness and possibly injury . |
| 27 | The wider implications of agrarian reform were tackled in this period , for there was a redistribution of credit in favour of smallholders and the state took over some marketing networks , though this was primarily to get supplies to the urban consumer at low prices , rather than to assist agriculture ( Castillo and Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Perón 's capacity to deliver the tangible benefits that established unions working against the state apparatus could not hope to obtain for their members ( labour 's share of the national income increased by twenty-five per cent between 1946 and 1950 ) ensured that the loyalties of massive sectors of the post-1955 labour movement were to Peronism rather than to Communism or socialism . |
| 29 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 30 | Whilst the self-appraisal might be viewed as the school 's attempt to defend its policies and practices , rather than to appraise itself , and to make a special case for extra resources and improved staffing , the inspection could be seen as a process of ensuring that the school was performing to an acceptable standard and that no serious problems existed in terms of teacher performance and in terms of resources needed to carry out the curriculum . |