Example sentences of "rather [conj] between " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have tended , however , to treat this as a distinction between two sorts of knowledge , rather than between knowledge and something else . |
| 2 | Other battles are still fought today in Strathnaver , but they are between man and beast , rather than between man and his fellow creatures . |
| 3 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 4 | The second reason for the silence on foreign policy is that the big differences on it run within the parties rather than between them . |
| 5 | It is in terms of the relations between worker and capitalist and tenant and landlord rather than between psychologically given individuals . |
| 6 | I shall return later to the possibility of seeing the inaccessibility in terms of a limitation of access between levels ( rather than between modules ) , but for the moment we can redescribe this retraining activity as the ability of the subject , at a given level ( the uppermost , of intending to walk , in this case ) , to retranslate an activity into a lower level , in such a way that the translation later becomes compiled ( in terms of the earlier distinction between compilation and translation ) and ceases to be accessible from the ‘ higher level ’ . |
| 7 | first , that it was a consequence of competition between members of the same sex rather than between members of different sexes or species ; and , second , that it depended on variation in reproductive success rather than survival . |
| 8 | Again , the conflict is within the individual rather than between the organization and the individual and is a common excuse for procrastination and avoiding risks . |
| 9 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 10 | It seems that he was only proved guilty on one count of perverting the actual course of justice , but even so , the practice of a judge receiving presents at all made perversion more likely , and Bacon 's ingenious distinctions may be thought to differentiate between degrees of corruption rather than between guilt and innocence . |
| 11 | In many cases imports and exports take place between the different branches of international firms ; they occur within firms rather than between them . |
| 12 | We have located the decisive break in semantic character between ‘ fully transparent ’ and ‘ to some degree opaque ’ , rather than between ‘ completely opaque ’ and ‘ not completely opaque ’ , as this groups together more satisfactorily elements with significantly similar properties . |
| 13 | Westergaard and Resler ( who produced the figures for the period up to 1960 in Table 5 ) suggest that the most significant redistribution was within the wealthiest groups , rather than between them and the less well-off . |
| 14 | Since substitution and ellipsis are purely grammatical relations which hold between linguistic forms rather than between linguistic forms and their meanings , the details are highly language-specific and are therefore not worth going into here . |
| 15 | So far as voting is concerned this is a comparatively recent development , for , on the analogy of the partnership rule , it was long felt that members ' voting rights should be divorced from their purely financial interests in respect of dividend and capital , so that the equality in voting should be between members rather than between shares . |
| 16 | These stars would be supported by the exclusion principle repulsion between neutrons and protons , rather than between electrons . |
| 17 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 18 | Political parties provided the labels with which electors could identify , and elections became gladiatorial contests between parties rather than between individual candidates . |