Example sentences of "rather [subord] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The players then go round these people rather than simply the few chairs . |
| 2 | And — an important factor this , in view of the way that we found some commercial lenders now tend to make repetitive and cumulative borrowing almost an end in itself , rather than simply the means of funding one desired purchase — the union has no interest in persuading its members to borrow . |
| 3 | The foundation of this approach was a positive conception of liberty ; freedom as an actual capacity for doing or enjoying something rather than simply the absence of external constraint : |
| 4 | This advocated the idea of the conservation of coherent areas of townscape , rather than simply the preservation of individual buildings : from negative control to creative promotion . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had begun to realise that she had been the victim of an unhappy marriage , rather than simply the cause of one . |
| 6 | You can try to impress the waiter as a serious customer by specifying the type of tea you want , rather than just the brew in general . |
| 7 | Additionally , the development of the huge ‘ pot ’ helm , which enclosed all of the head rather than just the skull , made its wearer virtually invulnerable against anything less than a blow delivered with the full weight of a sword or axe . |
| 8 | This has had a much more drastic effect on the reservoir quality of the rocks than vadose compaction or early cementation , as it affected the whole of the Hauptdolomit rather than just the upper portion ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 9 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 10 | This form of consciousness aspired to a representation of the world in its entirety rather than just the sphere of practical action ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 52 ) . |
| 11 | So the idea of a mass-market paper for the Masses , rather than just the Concerned and Committed , began to surface . |
| 12 | Harnesses are another popular option with owners of dachshunds , spreading the point of control more widely over the body , rather than just the neck or head . |
| 13 | They are : ( 1 ) the relationship between psychology and biology and the possibility of dispensing with psychology altogether once physiology has been developed sufficiently ; ( 2 ) the value of studies on non-human species ; ( 3 ) the degree of functional specialization in the sub-areas of the brain and the ways of analysing and describing those functions ; ( 4 ) the way we are responding to the challenges of cognitive psychology ; and ( 5 ) the importance of being able to explain what happens in the real world , rather than just the laboratory . |
| 14 | More important , selection over tens of generations can take traits well beyond their original values , and new mutations can contribute to the response , so that it may reflect the fundamental limits on the character , rather than just the initial covariances . |
| 15 | Each case must be examined on its own facts , examining the function rather than just the formal categorisation of the requesting authority . |
| 16 | This technique may be seen as an extension of the basic co-occurrence methods , as it includes the concept of matching using a group of semantic relatives ( rather than just the word itself ) and also matches according to specific syntactic relations . |
| 17 | The only real problem with this way of bending is that if one of the ‘ laminations ’ does break you lose the whole piece rather than just the one lamination ! |
| 18 | And you 're there for quali qualified rather than just the licensed trade would that be ? |
| 19 | Whitley ( 1990 : 65 ) has suggested that this is in part because of the way skill formation is more intra-organizationally than individually achieved , and thus located in the context of the overall skilling of work groups rather than just the human capital of a competitive individual . |
| 20 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
| 21 | It has become a pure threat signal rather than just the first stage of an attack . |
| 22 | Where you could have more of a character study , rather than just the kind of erm , capping the unconscious , as it were |
| 23 | This means that the most significant features of accent which are imitated/accommodated to will be ( 1 ) features involving a phonemic contrast , in other words , points where the sound systems of two varieties , rather than just the sounds themselves , are different ; ( 2 ) points of pronunciation where the systems themselves are not different , but the sounds representing a particular phoneme are substantially different . |
| 24 | Now would they normally get their er a jockey to gallop the horse rather than just the stable boy ? |
| 25 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 26 | Should we become a European business , looking upon Europe as our primary market rather than just the UK ? |
| 27 | Now , more often than not , solvent-cleaning systems are sold as a package to customers rather than just the solvents themselves . |
| 28 | We should recall here how alive the Chicago School was to this link , even if they saw people 's careers and mobility as largely products of their own actions rather than also the products of companies and other institutions . |
| 29 | is n't are n't those symptoms of depression rather than actually the drug ? |
| 30 | Erm I have to say that that these are largely my personal views of the member of the regional office , rather than obviously the Secretary of State at this stage in the proceedings . |