Example sentences of "rather than [art] actual [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ palace ’ originally referred to the gathering around the king , rather than an actual building . |
| 2 | In his seminal study Wilderness and the American Mind , Roderick Nash makes the point that ‘ wilderness was a state of mind — a perceived rather than an actual condition of the environment . ’ |
| 3 | Toubert is doubtless correct in his criticism that Pfaff 's estimate of the income of the papacy — made on the basis of the Liber Censuum — is in fact inclusive of many " ghost monies " ; compiled over many years , rather than an actual account . |
| 4 | It seems that it is the soakaway rather than the actual drain that is defective . |
| 5 | It is the idea of sex , rather than the actual performance , which gives them their real sexual pleasure . |
| 6 | What is most important is how classes are taught and how a school manages its teaching staff , rather than the actual number employed or the number of pupils per class . |
| 7 | Another charge of a similar kind is that Barth was excessively concerned with ontology , with the rationale of the being of God ; that he misused biblical terms and concepts on the one hand by treating them semi-literally as ‘ ontic ’ , as descriptive of the way things actually are when they are often pictorial or metaphorical , and on the other hand by turning the whole of Scripture into a vast allegory of Jesus Christ ; and that this reflected a Platonist streak in his thinking which encouraged an unbalanced concentration on eternal realities rather than the actual world of concrete life and experience . |
| 8 | The organisations behind the drafting of most photocopier contracts are the finance companies that fund the deal , rather than the actual rental company or dealer . |
| 9 | Master Macaulay it was who took up the baton , adopting a convincingly highfalutin' tone and laying into several powerful members of the journalistic and cultural establishments , secure in the knowledge that their rage would be turned upon yours truly , rather than the actual perpetrator . |
| 10 | In fact it is the preservation of the ‘ form ’ of company behaviour which becomes the aim of the actor on the scene rather than the actual business achievement . |
| 11 | First , commercial convenience dictates that the law is frequently more concerned with the objective appearance of agreement rather than the actual fact of agreement , as was stated in an 1871 judgment : |
| 12 | It 's a question of how you dance round them I suspect rather than the actual pole . |
| 13 | He therefore maintained that Christ died to pay an equivalent rather than the actual penalty for their sins . |