Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] of [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | A licence fee will cost about £10 and users will be charged for each unit of information rather than by the minute , although there will be no charge for customers linking into GSN . |
| 2 | They often pay a higher pension , based on 1/60th for each year of service rather than l/80th , but the tax-free lump sum has to be bought by giving up part of your pension . |
| 3 | Rollin talks of it as ‘ feelings ’ , and so avoids this , yet his examples rather suggest choices for this course of action rather than that . ) |
| 4 | Having come out of that side of politics rather than the other , I always start where people are , and with what they want , and what their lives are like , and what will help them . |
| 5 | Current educational programmes aimed at all school children on the risks of drug abuse may fail to emphasise the major risks of alcohol and of some prescribed medicines and they may make the false assumptions that : a. drug addiction is simply a product of repeated use of drugs rather than a specific risk of some particular individuals . |
| 6 | The problem with these diseases is that they are diagnosed on the basis of indirect evidence of infection rather than by identifying a specific microorganism . |
| 7 | Organisational change may be the result of these kinds of issue rather than in response to some logic of organisational design . |
| 8 | The detection of insider dealing has increased ( although the conviction rate is still poor ) , and this is likely to be a reflection of better channels of detection rather than any upsurge in the problem as previously it was not a criminal offence ( and in some circles was regarded as a perk of the job ) . |
| 9 | Second , regional policies play an ideological role favourable to private capital : they present the economic recession as a problem of geographical distribution of jobs rather than what it is — a problem of simply insufficient jobs on a national level . |
| 10 | All three represent fundamental shake-ups and policy shifts , and as their implementation coincides with a ruthless financial squeeze on local government , the council tax and community care may look like empty statements of ideology rather than meaningful new policies . |
| 11 | I think those 'd probably be better with that kind of response rather than the previous one |
| 12 | In a letter written just before this last trip he asked the Bishop to act as his next-of-kin , mentioned a small legacy to the diocese , and added that he hoped to benefit the Church in Burma with many years of service rather than with a paltry sum of money . |
| 13 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 14 | So these are the things that are worrying Robyn Penrose as she drives through the gates of the University , with a nod and a smile to the security man in his little glass sentry box : her lecture on the Industrial Novel , her job future , and her relationship with Charles — in that order of conspicuousness rather than importance . |
| 15 | Perhaps he was in some sort of store-room rather than the garage . |
| 16 | Bryan Keith-Lucas has described how during the nineteenth century the local government franchise gradually became based upon general Acts of Parliament rather than on a ‘ medley of jurisdiction and authority ’ deriving from the common law and local Acts ( Keith-Lucas 1952:221 ) . |
| 17 | The Community followed a muted policy , based upon declaratory statements of principle rather than pro-active diplomacy . |
| 18 | There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another . |
| 19 | For the moment , at least , I should prefer to rely on that process of negotiation rather than on anything else . |
| 20 | Here it would be wise to offer a set of modules limited to some aspect of EP rather than try to cover the whole in less depth . |
| 21 | It is a pity not because sociology can not become like physics or , indeed , become a science — it is far too early for us to decide about either of these and related questions — but because sociology looked outside itself in order to discover the appropriate model of science to follow and , as it happened , it looked toward philosophical versions of science rather than to the practices of the sciences themselves . |
| 22 | It will inevitably by called ‘ blackthorn ’ , which should not be in flower for a month , bringing its ‘ winter ’ with it , and growing on short-jointed tangles of stems rather than on the slender longer shoots of these bushy trees . |
| 23 | Much more is made these days of adding to existing experience and finding solutions to individual problems of patients rather than attempting to apply nursing practice to clinical symptoms and multiple medical diagnosis . |
| 24 | Management as local activity has taken time to distance itself from the field of administration which belonged , as recently as the 1980s , to varying tiers of government rather than to institutions . |
| 25 | His skill has resulted in accurate information on actual hours of work rather than the , often lower , contracted hours . |
| 26 | The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness . |
| 27 | The remainder have in many cases , however , devoted more resources to traditional means of advertising rather than adopted new media . |
| 28 | The person may also have other genetic or environmental reasons to be susceptible to one type of disorder rather than another . |
| 29 | The essential point , then , is that the NPV approach to evaluating alternative cash streams is a generally correct valuation model where the discount rate is the opportunity cost of committing resources to one course of action rather than another . |
| 30 | And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be . |