Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major change of emphasis in the past 25 years has been the breakdown of the bookfund into headings representing functional or user criteria rather than into geographical headings . |
| 2 | The ILP founder , Keir Hardie , although a miner , had not entered parliament as the nominee of the Miners ' Federation and most ILP Members were nominated by local Party branches or Trades Councils rather than through the national trade unions . |
| 3 | It seems sensible to adopt a low-risk investment strategy for the PEP , perhaps investing in UK unit trusts or investment trusts rather than individual shares ; again , it requires investors to take a long-term view . |
| 4 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 5 | Similarly , in industries with casual employment such as building in which employees lacked permanent attachment to a given employer , the union 's focus of organisation was the product or labour market rather than the individual firm . |
| 6 | It is hard to escape the feeling that this proven hazard would not have been allowed to continue , poisoning children and adults , if the victims had been residents of Weybridge or Sloane Square rather than the Gorbals . |
| 7 | The first solo show may well be a very daunting experience , for although artists are used to showing work , it is normally in the context of a mixed exhibition or gallery display rather than presenting a large amount of work to an invited audience , including critics ! |
| 8 | It would have been interesting to see the teachers ' reactions to questions about profits from burglary or tax evasion rather than investment . |
| 9 | Conflict , on the other hand , may lead to tension , to inter-personal friction , and to the pursuit of individual or group goals rather than the pursuit of organisational goals . |
| 10 | However , in so far as their purpose is purely redistributive , it seems difficult to provide a rationale for price subsidies or in-kind transfers rather than cash transfers , and yet these latter forms of assistance are extremely important components of public expenditure ( see , e.g. Brennan and Pincus 1983 ) . |
| 11 | It is also better to beat the icing in a china , glass or metal bowl rather than plastic which can leave tiny particles in the mixture . |
| 12 | If you want potatoes with your meal , cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips . |
| 13 | If you are using wood as a continuous work surface , introduce some variety ; let in a square of marble or ceramic tile for making pastry ; surround your sink with stainless steel , tile or plastic laminate rather than wood , which tends to lift up and warp . |
| 14 | Reluctance to adopt any of these measures with any strong conviction highlighted the widespread belief in the Los Angeles community that the problem was a scientific , technological or engineering problem rather than a social , political or legal one . |
| 15 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |
| 16 | The main doubts about level and standards in higher education probably relate to new or interdisciplinary courses for which the criteria are not well established , or courses which have atypical entrants ( e.g. ‘ unqualified ’ mature students ) or which are not assessed in conventional ways ( e.g. with a heavy reliance on course or project work rather than unseen examinations ) . |
| 17 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 18 | Armagnac 's second marriage , to Béatrix de Clermont , tended ( like that of Gaston I of Foix-Béarn to Jeanne of Artois ) to incline him towards northern France and the Capetian or Valois court rather than towards an absentee king-duke of Aquitaine . |
| 19 | Well the motives are to offer more choice , to provide more competition in the credit card market and a better deal for customers and , to the extent that there are prices changes , we 'd expect them to be beneficial , particularly to those who are buying with cash or debit cards rather than credit cards . |
| 20 | Try to use fish packed in brine or tomato sauce rather than in vegetable oil . |
| 21 | The seller , if he is to receive cash or debt securities rather than shares , would want a price that reflected as fully as possible the value to the buyer of creating a monopoly ( and thus the lost chance for the seller to do it himself ) . |
| 22 | Proof that these outbursts are overflow or vacuum activities rather than pathological fits can be found by comparing the indoor behaviour of hard-living rural cats , with that of lap-of-luxury town cats . |
| 23 | Studies have shown that equipment users rather than makers develop major process innovations ( thus stealing a march on their competitors ) and that small , imperceptible ‘ everyday rationaliza-tions ’ account for the lion 's share of productivity gains in an ongoing manufacturing business . |
| 24 | It is essential that management reward rather than punish the risk taking required in abandoning the old and trying the new . |
| 25 | Matey thought unkindly that Mrs Darrell rather liked the idea of becoming Lady Cochrane when Stair went to his last rest , which at the rate he was living might not be long . |
| 26 | Managers commonly talk of ‘ strategies ’ that concern inputs rather than outputs . |
| 27 | It remains , too , the official conviction of the government that market forces rather than regulation will create the necessary responses to global warming . |
| 28 | He turned the picture so that Faye could see it , as well as Belinda and Bill , who had just arrived , briefcase in hand and shirt collar rather tired-looking after his long day . |
| 29 | Made with the full support of the Pentagon , Wings Of The Apache is a standard-issue Top Gun recruiting movie which features helicopters rather than jets and drug barons rather than Reds , but keeps the gung-ho militarism and the aerial camera acrobatics . |
| 30 | To get maximum benefit in making your diet easy , speedy and healthy , obtain your dietary fibre from a wide range of cereal , fruit and vegetable foods rather than seeking to make up the total from just one or two very fibre-rich foods . |