Example sentences of "[adv] rather [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you decide to design your own lace pattern , do remember that you must transfer to both left and right rather than in just one direction or you may finish up with a definite bias in your knitting . |
| 2 | But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal . |
| 3 | At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance . |
| 4 | Rather than classes on directly social or political topics , the emphasis has been upon issue-based provision , in the first instance , as a means to develop work , where appropriate and possible , with a broader scope ( hence courses in Housing , Welfare Rights , Health Care , etc. rather than in Social Policy , Politics etc . ) . |
| 5 | Best used alone rather than in mixed bedding , in rock gardens , containers , & clumps at front of borders . |
| 6 | Carers generally operate alone rather than in a large network and , as noted earlier , they are not a single group . |
| 7 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 8 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 9 | Royal involvement in episcopal appointments suggests that the kings and their bishops were likely to work together rather than in opposition . |
| 10 | There was clearly a close relationship between Eduard and his friend Chef/Patron Jean Pierre Lallement and we began to feel that we were being entertained in someone 's home rather than in a hotel . |
| 11 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 13 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 14 | The birth of sociologie religieuse and the initial contributions of catholic institutions both in Europe and the USA to the founding of departments of sociology are rooted here rather than in the work of the founding fathers of the discipline , though clearly there are links between de Bonald , Maistre , and Durkheim on the nature of social solidarity and the concept of society , and authoritative Roman catholic social theorists . |
| 15 | These latter cases are dealt with here rather than in the previous chapter for two related reasons . |
| 16 | Then let me assure you that couples who come here — married or otherwise — get their exercise outdoors rather than in bed . ’ |
| 17 | I accept that , if there are unnecessary bureaucratic rules or regulations or ways to get forms filled out singly rather than in triplicate , we shall do everything we can to speed up the process . |
| 18 | More people than ever wanted to live there rather than in towns and 79 per cent took the view that the countryside was in danger . |
| 19 | Among ‘ middle class ’ Tories on the other hand , a substantial majority ( 65 per cent ) took the fourth view , thinking in terms of ‘ national interest ’ , ‘ competence ’ and so on rather than in class terms . |
| 20 | I 'm making them at Bill Quay Community Farm nearby rather than in my studio . |
| 21 | So personal growth at that time was in high leaps forward rather than in little trickles . |
| 22 | What they meant by that was that managers would do the kind of thing I 've just described like y'know transmit an ambiguous message orally rather than in a memo and visa versa . |