Example sentences of "rather than [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ageing has to be recognized as a process , a gradual transition , rather than a once-for-all event . |
| 2 | Annual reviews of authorities similarly cover a large number of issues ( 15 plus ) rather than a few , ‘ bottom line ’ , indicators of performance . |
| 3 | Apple 's Macintosh coupled with the new generation of page printers made the process possible at a cost within the reach of tens of thousands of individuals rather than a few hundreds . |
| 4 | While the breakdown of a corporate group into separate SBUs will improve diversification of the total group risk , if there is some interdependence between the SBUs it may be better to have many smaller interdependencies rather than a few large ones . |
| 5 | " Readers ' , in this case , usually means large population-samples of " ordinary people " , rather than a few professional readers ( critics , reviewers , literary academics , professors and the like ) . |
| 6 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 7 | I am afraid it is the latter rather than the former . |
| 8 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |
| 9 | By choosing the latter rather than the former an applicant might be able to avoid the restrictive features of AJR procedure . |
| 10 | I I I 'm well I 'm not entirely familiar with such jargon , I think it falls within the latter rather than the former definition . |
| 11 | Following one stimulus rather than another with food , for example , is likely to establish associations that will cause the subject to approach the former stimulus rather than the latter when both are available . |
| 12 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 13 | I believe it is the former rather than the latter . |
| 14 | In the Australian experience referred to earlier , those engaged in the study of alternative community-based educational initiatives stressed the former rather than the latter , ‘ The innovating organisation will only survive if it can show them ( the statutory bodies and local power groups ) that its power is complementary rather than invasive . ’ |
| 15 | The former rather than the latter could have been true of Brihtheah of Worcester , whose family was that of Archbishop Wulfstan of York and Worcester , but whose kins-men lived in Berkshire , while if Symeon of Durham 's account of the election of Bishop Edmund is correct , Cnut simply confirmed a choice made in Durham . |
| 16 | He says that ‘ when the dictionary , the grammar and the style book seem to rule okay , we find the language of the street , of the bar , of the market-place , of the many rather than the few , striking back and changing our own , educated perceptions of what English really is . ’ |
| 17 | The approaching waves still have colinear polarization but , in this case , their amplitudes are opposite rather than the same . |