Example sentences of "rather [subord] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That school , like many of its contemporaries , was essentially a ‘ professionalizing ’ school preparing its better students for the more dignified occupations , rather than for higher education ( a development that was not to be fully realized until after 1945 and the expansion of the universities ) . |
| 2 | The model allows us to recast the DFR equation for cells in a table , rather than for individual values . |
| 3 | What pity she had possessed for others had been diffuse and impersonal , for women as a mass rather than for individual women such as poor , defeated Poll whom she saw daily , the marks of Jem 's fists on her face . |
| 4 | The Institute , now renamed the International Federation of Documentation , set out to design a standard international classification scheme primarily for documentation rather than for general library use . |
| 5 | In particular , they felt that enterprises in both Britain and Germany were having to cater for increasingly small market niches rather than for homogeneous mass markets . |
| 6 | ‘ To provide a model for citizens doing their own research , growing out of their own local people needs and concerns , rather than for professional consulting firms doing research based on the needs and interests of government agencies . ’ |
| 7 | He also stresses that the new female values encouraged marriage for love rather than for prudential considerations , and maintains that women 's increasing search for sexual fulfilment pushed up the general fertility rate of lower-class marriages in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 9 | It was further suggested that the principal value of the new statement might be for reference purposes rather than for wide circulation . |
| 10 | In this case it would always be advantageous to invest for one month at a time rather than for two months at one go . |
| 11 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 12 | For the most part , however , these systems were of limited range , designed for the battlefield rather than for strategic use and more suitable for targets in Khuzestan than Tehran . |
| 13 | They will eventually be forced to adjust their attitudes towards regional security to allow for popular attitudes , rather than for Western preference , or face dangerous domestic unrest and a radical intensification of Islam and Arab nationalism . |
| 14 | The results of the actor tests show that there are still substantial levels of discrimination against Asians and West Indians when applying for manual jobs ; that the discrimination is stronger against applicants for non-skilled rather than for skilled jobs ; that it is mainly based on colour prejudice rather than prejudice against foreigners ; and that levels of discrimination against Indians , Pakistanis and West Indians are much the same . |
| 15 | This was chosen more because it was available rather than for religious reasons . |
| 16 | To others it may seem like a recipe for disaster rather than for successful research . |
| 17 | A rather higher proportion ( n.s. ) of referrals to the specialist team came in the form of requests for general assessment rather than for specific services . |
| 18 | Even drinking in a public bar may be considered to be solitary if the principal reason for doing so is the consumption of alcohol rather than for specific social contact . |
| 19 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |
| 20 | It is likely , at present , that businesses will use EDI for contracts with regular trading partners , rather than for one-off contracts . |
| 21 | The first-level supervision , known as the deputy , stood in a service rather than an executive relation , his responsibilities being for safety , maintenance of supplies , and shot-firing rather than for direct supervision . |
| 22 | Reformers were directing their energies , as we can see now , at many of the wrong targets , illustrating the typical nineteenth-century preference for moral campaigns rather than for structural social reforms . |
| 23 | The problem is compounded when attempts are made to find out the costs of individual services when subsidies are paid line-by-line , rather than for whole sectors ; yet this is what RENFE 's 1984 programme contract with the state claimed to achieve ( RENFE 1984a : 80 ) . |
| 24 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 25 | Erm , I 'd like to , I 'm glad you picked up the children looked after by the local authority , but what bothers me is the children in families that are causing concern rather than for those that are actually erm , in care . |
| 26 | Plundering en route was forbidden , probably because it reduced the speed of the army rather than for any ethical reasons . |
| 27 | The other source of inspiration — and indeed guidance — for the research was an experiment by William Hayward and his colleagues at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York ( Nature , vol 290 , p 475 ) , Their work on a virus-induced lymphoma of birds inspired the researchers to look specifically for the myc gene — rather than for any of the 13 other known proto-oncogenes . |
| 28 | Despite their often Eastern names , these are all Western pedigree cats , almost all of which have been specifically developed for the show-ring , rather than for any other purpose . |
| 29 | He was the former Republican leader in the House of Representatives , and had been chosen as Vice-President for his reputation for honesty rather than for any outstanding political qualities . |
| 30 | We remember the 1930s for a set of very general measures , rather than for any inter-professional work on traffic and roads as part of a comprehensive view of urban development and planning . |