Example sentences of "the [noun] rather [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his wrinkled face and sunburned skin he looked as though he had risen from the ranks rather than graduating from Saint Cyr or the Ecole Militaire . |
| 2 | It means a government whose chief policies were offered to the voters before the election rather than concocted in political trading after it . |
| 3 | The examination , therefore , can now be seen as the culmination of the course rather than viewed as an unwelcome intrusion as it was previously . |
| 4 | In the only case in which a customer tried to invoke the Consumer Credit Trade Association scheme , the trader left the association rather than go to arbitration . |
| 5 | Go round the animals rather than walking through a group of them . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the escapement is hinged to the key rather than fitting into a slot and the hammer points towards the player . |
| 7 | communications , where people prefer formal communication from the department rather than relying on the ‘ grapevine ’ ; |
| 8 | In fact , since social dialectology is an exploratory science , many important patterns of variation are adequately demonstrated by exploratory statistical techniques , which are designed to reveal patterns in the data rather than test for significance ( Tukey , 1977 ; Diaconis , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | However , the court agreed with the views expressed obiter by another division of the court in the case of Emerson ( 1990 ) 92 Cr.App.R. 284 ; where a transcript was provided it was merely a means of presenting the exhibit , which was the tape itself , to the court : if the jury wished to hear the tape rather than rely on the written transcript , there was no proper reason why they should not be allowed to do so . |
| 10 | But it soon came to be realized that any breakaway plasma would disperse into the void rather than condense into solid bodies . |
| 11 | By now , though , the Japanese were getting wary of ambush , and following their usual high standard of training they had sentries hidden in the bushes rather than marching to and fro as ready bait for a commando knife . |
| 12 | You will probably be surprised at what a different experience it is actually speaking the words rather than running through them in your head . |
| 13 | Almost exclusively inspired by the essence rather than seduced by the charm of this region . |
| 14 | As the wind increases above this level it is better to go directly to the No 3 to help the stability of the boat rather than changing to the No 2 . |
| 15 | Is he sweeping the pieces off the chessboard rather than engaging in the game ? |
| 16 | and er I was watching it when it was raining the other day , you could see the rain dripping off the wood rather than soaking into it so it 's done something . |
| 17 | This ‘ supervisory jurisdiction ’ ( which is ‘ inherent ’ , that is to say , it is a jurisdiction which was assumed by the judges rather than conferred on the court by statute ) is to be contrasted with ‘ appellate jurisdiction ’ ( which is possessed by a number of courts and other bodies such as appeal tribunals ) . |
| 18 | However , imperfectly practised , this approach at least recognises that health care intervention must supplement that of the parents rather than substitute for it . |
| 19 | Now the inn is more geared to motorists , who much to their surprise , find the road terminates at the door of the inn rather than continuing to Windermere . |
| 20 | It was crude , a trifle unfinished and unformed — in any other Dream , she would have researched the externals rather than built on a whim — but it was what she wanted . |
| 21 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 22 | The main problem was that if the new devolved NHS services were to replace the asylums ' treatment , then a structure of long-term support would be needed for those who , albeit now being able to live in the community rather than vegetate as long-term inpatients , still mostly required structured day care or home visiting or occupation . |
| 23 | The situation is such that it is care by the community rather than care in the community . |
| 24 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 25 | In such a case , the husband will , if possible , wish to be released by the mortgagee from the future liability under the mortgage rather than rely upon an indemnity from the wife , and although the mortgagee should be aware of the proceedings between the parties by virtue of the notification required to be made to it under r2.59(4) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 ( see p3 ) , a formal application will doubtless have to be made by the husband for a release . |
| 26 | The emphasis of paraprofessional training needs to build upon and extend the qualities and skills that these workers bring to the team rather than to concentrate on socializing them to professional or organizational ways of doing things . |
| 27 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 28 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 29 | In 797 Barcelona , the main Catalonian city , fell to the Franks and the Saracen governor , Zeid , rebelling against his master in Cordova , sought vassalage with the Christians rather than defeat at the hands of a fellow Moslem . |
| 30 | for example , the manual labourer is unlikely to take up an energetic hobby such as cycling and he is likely to spend his holidays relaxing at the seaside rather than walking in the mountains . |