Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] [noun] " 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 | It feels that the majority of customers will want to route SNA natively , rather than via TCP/IP , and believes that a reduction in royalties would take away the main impetus behind the Cisco Systems Inc-inspired APPI movement . |
| 3 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 4 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even now the men who gesticulate along La Canebière look towards the sea rather than towards France . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 12 | ‘ Management ’ remained in place , only now it was responsible to a government-appointed Board of Directors and ultimately to Parliament , rather than to shareholders ' representatives . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Get it to analyse specific behaviour and situations rather than to censure you as a person . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Is , is that euro speak Mr in other words freedom to Brussels rather than to Rome ? |
| 17 | The fact that lyso platelet activating factor levels are not significantly enhanced in acute Crohn 's disease mucosa compared to normal mucosa , however , may suggest that raised platelet activating factor levels are related to an increased acetyltransferase rather than to PLA 2 activity . |
| 18 | Therapsids were notable mammalian forerunners , and were different from the pelycosaurs in having their jaw muscles attached directly to the skull , rather than to tendons . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But why do I go to C , rather than to B ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |