Example sentences of "rather than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that three- , four- , and five-year-olds based their judgements on temporal priority rather than spatial proximity . |
| 2 | Vietnam , supporting the SOC position , rejected the disarming of government forces , and made it clear that it envisaged an SNC with a largely symbolic function rather than real authority . |
| 3 | Although the references to property could imply tax yield rather than real estate , related laws which deal with land clearance make this unlikely . |
| 4 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 5 | The search for alternative means of supplying services might derive its urgency from perceived rather than real crisis , and more particularly a disenchantment with state social planning as such . |
| 6 | All this is only possible where multi-skilling and flexible skilling are the norm , rather than restrictive skill defensiveness . |
| 7 | The task of political sociology is to define these issues and problems in a rigorous way , to describe and analyse the wider structural and historical context , to enquire into the causes of political events , and to indicate in an imaginative rather than restrictive fashion the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 8 | Since the function of the is to identify something which is contextually known to be unique , it tends to signal continuity on a contextual , rather than textual level : Lawrence makes a pretence of shared knowledge with the reader , who by implication is already familiar with the surroundings , is already an inhabitant of the fictional world . |
| 9 | He called for a change in the civil law , rather than criminal statute , to make it an offence for a parent to beat a child , as in Sweden . |
| 10 | Court proceedings should be of a civil rather than criminal nature , she said . |
| 11 | If casual consumption of cocaine is down , it may well be the result of education and treatment programmes rather than criminal enforcement . |
| 12 | In our main 1979 survey , people were asked without prompting to say why they had recently bought on credit rather than paid cash . |
| 13 | It also means ensuring that the full inclusion of disabled people is integral to an organisation 's structure , rather than peripheral concern easily surrendered to other interests . |
| 14 | This is particularly important given that one of the explanations advanced for the recognition results was based on attention to central rather than peripheral information in a film . |
| 15 | In practice , infra-red is often used rather than visible light . |
| 16 | Photographs using SWIR radiation rather than visible light can be taken with an ordinary camera and special film . |
| 17 | We discuss the role of money in the Keynesian model in Chapter 22 where we see that a change in the money supply , according to this model , only affects national income through its effect on the rate of interest ; it is because of this that Keynesians have usually put more faith in fiscal rather than monetary policy . |
| 18 | Organizational direction is therefore primarily determined by problems and reaction rather than pro-active planning . |
| 19 | The Community followed a muted policy , based upon declaratory statements of principle rather than pro-active diplomacy . |
| 20 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 21 | Labour 's economic policies are wrong , not chiefly because they are still preoccupied with redistributing wealth ( although they are ) , but because they reflect Labour 's conviction that public rather than private spending offers a route to national prosperity . |
| 22 | Households with less privately-owned land which had to rely on the ‘ public economy ’ ( the forest ) for livestock rearing rather than private land , were less willing to see restrictions placed upon access to forests or to others ' private land for stubble grazing in cases where fodder tree planting on terrace backs was being advocated . |
| 23 | Released from the constraints of both shareholders and any market , managers are free to become public servants , ‘ a purely neutral technocracy , balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 24 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 25 | These , rather than private insurance or public ‘ welfare ’ , they saw as the real key to diminishing poverty . |
| 26 | As a solicitor practising in local government rather than private practice , you do not have individual clients . |
| 27 | He warned : ‘ It is much harder to encourage people to travel by public rather than private transport if buses are old , uncomfortable and unreliable . ’ |
| 28 | This also means that all prices are determined by competitive trading rather than private agreement . |
| 29 | Personal property is best linked with communal rather than private property , such as state or kin-held property , since it is a statement of relative inalienability , such that the social subject , individual or collective , associated with the object retains control over the conditions under which it may be alienated . |
| 30 | So far as the malais were concerned , it also made them like Martinho more , in the political rather than personal sense . |