Example sentences of "rather [conj] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourthly , there will be a greater realisation that the business depends on the strength of the whole chain of supply and sales , rather than on the individual performance of one part of it . |
| 2 | In tropical countries , where disease due to D. viviparus may occur intermittently , the epidemiology is presumably quite different and probably depends more on pasture contamination by carrier animals such as may occur during flooding when cattle congregate on damp , high areas , rather than on the prolonged survival of infected larvae . |
| 3 | Elite studies preserved for some time their emphasis on stability and survival of political rule rather than on the visible exercise of power . |
| 4 | Employees who benefit from inhouse perks , such as concessionary travel facilities or free sports or entertainment tickets , will only have to pay tax on the marginal cost of concessions , rather than on the average cost charged to the public , following the House of Lords ' ruling in Pepper v Hart ( see also this issue , pp 22 and 85 ) . |
| 5 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 6 | These advisers are more likely to be accountants , rather than lawyers whose principal role in this respect is likely to be in advising on the interpretation of the statutory provisions rather than on the financial state of the companies which the information reveals . |
| 7 | The user , therefore , can concentrate on the structure and behaviour of the system under consideration , rather than on the technical aspects of the modelling process . |
| 8 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 9 | It is clear that data obtained from these questions relied heavily on hearsay rather than on the actual knowledge of others , as well as of the informant . |
| 10 | Greater emphasis would be needed , as Watkinson proposed , on military intervention capability rather than on the existing network of colonial garrisons . |
| 11 | Like my Lord , Hodson L.J. , I prefer to base my judgment on that ground rather than on the alternative ground — that apart from any question of an offer by the wife to return , while she was still in desertion , there might have been trouble , expense or embarrassment if the wife had incurred debts . |
| 12 | Labov 's ( 1966 ) definition , like ours , is based on agreement on norms of variation within the community rather than on the absolute values of the linguistic forms themselves . |
| 13 | Automated Education Letter in December 1972 reported a talk by R. P. Henderson to the Royal Canadian Institute in Toronto : In the not too distant future we will see the world 's knowledge recorded electronically rather than on the printed page . |
| 14 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 15 | He adds that the Greek government 's assessment makes no allowance for evaporation and calculates the reduction in the amount of water reaching the wetlands on the basis of the present total flow rather than on the present volume reaching Missolonghi . |
| 16 | This is difficult , particularly as most studies of the effects of the plague have tended to concentrate on the fourteenth-century epidemics , the Black Death of 1348–49 and the further outbreaks of the next generation , rather than on the recurrent visitations of the fifteenth century ( see Framework ) . |
| 17 | So that demonstrates , that 's an example then , demonstrating the effect of an activator on a on the open state probability rather than on the single channel current . |
| 18 | Rather than on the single channel current or the number of channels . |
| 19 | For example , would a Scottish Parliament want to spend its limited resources on renationalisation , rather than on the pressing problems of homelessness , joblessness , or lawlessness ? |
| 20 | This , combined with the greater flexibility in defining dominance , leads to a European approach based more on the effects of , rather than on the formal structure of monopoly , as distinct from the situation in the UK where structural criteria have to be satisfied before investigation can proceed . |
| 21 | Throughout the year the anxieties of the Party were focused on local workers and soldiers rather than on the surrounding sea of peasants . |
| 22 | The results of items on pupils ' knowledge of shapes suggest that pupils judge shape on general appearance rather than on the geometrical properties which define them . |
| 23 | Here the Committee has preferred to rely on speculation about hypothetical problems rather than on the unchallenged evidence that employed solicitors have conducted cases for years in the lower courts without complaint . |
| 24 | The emphasis is thus on the command structures found in private industry or commerce , where corporate techniques developed , rather than on the popular involvement and bargaining that should accompany democratic processes of public policy-making . |
| 25 | Theodor Adorno , on the contrary , has produced what are perhaps the most considered , influential , and lengthy analyses of modernist art ; yet these analyses tend to be formalist , to ignore the realm of popular culture , and to focus rather singularly on the production of cultural forms rather than on the social bases of their reception . |
| 26 | Particularly in connection with Bacon and Gassendi , we have seen how , in opposition to it , there began to develop a conception of ‘ natural philosophy ’ ; a body of knowledge based firmly on the experienced facts of experiment and observation , rather than on the intellectual strait-jacket of the logic and categories of Aristotelianism . |