Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the extent that rank-ordering means giving preferences to candidates of one party rather than another it is both easy and reasonable . |
| 2 | To place the authority for running the businesses with the heads of those businesses rather than with the central directors ; |
| 3 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 4 | It is worth the effort to convey something of how this is done but do not worry if you find the remaining paragraphs of this section rather abstract and demanding . |
| 5 | These approaches have a preoccupation with the activities of ordinary people rather than with important figures and are concerned with providing an alternative perspective on our past . |
| 6 | In analysing political action — that is to say , struggles for power — we need to look primarily at the activities of social groups rather than the actions of individuals , although the influence of particular individuals may evidently be a significant factor in some historical situations . |
| 7 | The ‘ harm to interests ’ test for the kinds of enforceable obligation conceals rival conceptions of distributive justice rather than a balancing of economic liberties . |
| 8 | There is a feeling that they need to develop educational approaches that are based on indigenous conceptions of social service rather than Western urban industrial models and that they should be seeking ways of maximizing the contribution of front-line personnel , either through the direct provision of training or by teaching their graduates how to train and make optimum use of front-line workers ( University Grants Commission , 1980 ; Siddiqui , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Theories in the traditional natural sciences are usually based upon icons of generative processes rather than knowledge of the generative processes themselves , and we are not unhappy to be in that company . |
| 10 | The methods that he chose to investigate this phenomenon were mainly social-psychological , enquiring into the motivations and psychological reactions of individual peasants rather than into the concrete structures and conditions of their lives . |
| 11 | Much research in computational linguistics has concentrated on treating the individual phenomena of natural language rather than on how these treatments can be made to work together . |
| 12 | All three of Kane 's categories suffer from implausible assumptions which belong in the realms of racist folklore rather than scientific inquiry . |
| 13 | Instead of booking a class , the passenger booked different forms of sleeping arrangement rather like booking a hotel room . |
| 14 | Authorizing expenses , travel and recruitment are forms of bureaucratic control rather than manifestations of subordination . |
| 15 | They recognize that even the most basic logical processes involve an element of indeterminacy ; they also base their techniques of communication on the strategies of narrative fiction rather than the endless flow of information . |
| 16 | It is no wonder , therefore , that many people believe the current delay in publishing the Barrowclough investigation is for reasons of political expediency rather than legalistic necessity . |
| 17 | Recent film aliens have been parodic reflections of the everyday absurdities of post-modern culture rather than attempts to imagine something genuinely other . |
| 18 | These will then develop through the usual plant successions into areas of organic sediment rather like the backswamps in the interior of the delta . |
| 19 | In short , the social debate on evacuation probably served to reinforce existing analyses of working-class poverty rather than to change them : for conservative social observers , it confirmed their view that the bulk of the problems were caused by an incorrigible underclass of personally inadequate ‘ cultural orphans ’ for whom a Welfare State could do little . |
| 20 | This disingenuous acceptance of the status quo , pregnant with career opportunities , is basic to those who feed on the effects of social problems rather than engage in the struggle to deal with causes . |
| 21 | The eventual thrust of the reform of the German child care legislation has been largely directed towards remedying the above shortcomings of earlier legislation rather than towards grounding the new Act in completely different principles . |
| 22 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 23 | As was the case with desktop publishing , we are essentially teaching the applications of electronic publishing rather than the ‘ hard ’ science , whether electronics or computing , that lies behind it . |
| 24 | Which type of support a young person receives should be determined entirely by the needs of that person rather than by slotting her or him into inflexible institutional alternatives . |
| 25 | ( In Section 24.3 we will look at an actual physical system that shows the implications of that statement rather effectively . ) |
| 26 | We would like to use WHITE amaray boxes for the VHS and BETA versions of this title rather than the black ones we normally use . |
| 27 | The framework will therefore be better suited to simulating the consequences of different kinds of economic behaviour rather than determining what form economic behaviour has or is likely to take . |
| 28 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 29 | To some extent the notion of academic scepticism is a caricature or even downright inaccurate ; the advancement of knowledge requires emotional commitment just as much as detachment , and it is the ground-rules of public research rather than the temperament of academics which sustain objective criticism . |
| 30 | It had little impact on the LSE students who , if they were in anything at all were likely to be inclined towards the Trotskyism of the International Socialists and the varieties of new leftism rather than this unknown creed . |