Example sentences of "rule rather than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 2 | Apart from the chance of filling the glass case , Fionn also has large stocks of more traditionally sized Highland trout , averaging 8-I2oz , and as on Loch Assynt , large baskets are the rule rather than the exception . |
| 3 | However , error terms are often highly non-Gaussian , and outliers from the line are the rule rather than the exception . |
| 4 | DIVIDED races have become the rule rather than the exception at East Anglian meetings this season , and there will be an eight race programme again tomorrow when the Dunston Harriers stage their fixture at Ampton . |
| 5 | Observations at wavelengths to which the Milky Way is transparent have shown that the central regions are unlike other parts of the Galaxy , and that bizarre features seem to be the rule rather than the exception . |
| 6 | At the same time it was doubtless the case that by-employments , which were probably the rule rather than the exception , were decisive in bringing the level of wealth in districts unfavourable to husbandry more or less into line with that of the more eligible farming regions . |
| 7 | In the democracies of continental Europe coalition governments are the rule rather than the exception . |
| 8 | There seems little doubt that such variation is the rule rather than the exception : the meaning of any word form is in some sense different in every distinct context in which it occurs . |
| 9 | In small gardens of the National Trust it could turn out to be the rule rather than the exception . |
| 10 | No , I , I , I , just , just a cover note , I think it 's quite true that this is one of the small steps one can make to make it a little bit more possible for people with dependents to take a full part in local government , and the majority of the people who are excluded at the moment are in practise erm , women with dependent children , but there are many other people including men , and including people with dependent elderly relatives , and I think we need to make it the rule rather than the exception that local government has a carer 's allowance scheme . |