Example sentences of "than being the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 2 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 3 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 4 | There is evidence that the ulcer is mediated by an indirect mechanism rather than being the result of direct irradiation of the duodenum . |
| 5 | Rather than being the result of deliberate government intention , this reflected the unintended ( and embarrassing ) consequence of minor regulatory change . |
| 6 | By contrast , the definition of a good frame is almost exactly the opposite ; it should be immediately absorbed without any period of consideration and , rather than being the focus of attention in itself , should direct our attention to the object within it . |
| 7 | Once activated , dysfunctional assumptions produce ‘ negative automatic thoughts ’ — ‘ negative ’ in that they are associated with unpleasant emotions and ‘ automatic ’ in that they pop into people 's heads rather than being the product of any deliberate reasoning process . |
| 8 | And the war , rather than being the product of imperialism , arose from an infinitely complex interaction between European and indeed world developments . |
| 9 | As the Danish scholar Per Nykrog has observed , however , the corpus of fabliaux seems to be constituted of a certain stock of recognized tales rather than being the product of widespread and prolific extemporization as Bédier was inclined to believe . |
| 10 | I would imagine the bits of Oscar were removed after his death , rather than being the cause . |
| 11 | That has now been toned down to special envoy , who British officials hope will be on a fact-finding mission rather than being the mediator originally suggested . |
| 12 | Rather than being the workshop of the world , Britain was becoming one of the world 's secretarial colleges , with priority given to non-manual clerical and service occupation . |