Example sentences of "[noun pl] rather [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also interesting to note that even though the fertility rate of female textile workers was low from the beginning of the period , this was not the case in Preston , probably because the women weavers tended to be married to general labourers rather than to fellow textile workers , again suggesting that it was the occupational status and attitudes of the husband that were more important . |
| 2 | Since substitution and ellipsis are purely grammatical relations which hold between linguistic forms rather than between linguistic forms and their meanings , the details are highly language-specific and are therefore not worth going into here . |
| 3 | Patients need to return to a normal weight , and that is determined by reference to scientific norms rather than by special pleading and personal opinion . |
| 4 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 5 | In addition much of her extra-European influence was based upon the confidence and expertise of local British personnel rather than on physical power . |
| 6 | However , this variation is due largely to the rate relief enjoyed by on-zone occupiers rather than to any obvious collapse of the property market outside of the zones . |
| 7 | In trying to establish whether or not the directive correctly reflects right reason the subjects will be relying on their own judgments rather than on that of the authority , which , we are assuming , is more reliable . |
| 8 | In her view , a liberal education was the birthright of every child and she tried hard to persuade the Board of Education that any form of continuing education should be based on the humanities rather than on technical training . |
| 9 | Opportunities for major fund-raising from other sources are very limited : partly because trust funds usually direct their resources to new short-term projects rather than to longestablished work , and partly because such trusts have been inundated with requests from other agencies suffering from withdrawal of Local Authority grants . |
| 10 | The programmes for the MTh ( Master of Theology ) and related Diploma and for the MSc ( Master of Science ) comprise taught courses , assessed normally by essays rather than by formal examinations , followed by the preparation of a short dissertation of some 15,000 words for MTh/MSc or a major essay of not more than 10,000 words for the Diploma . |
| 11 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 12 | Most choose to go to residential homes rather than to those of their children . |
| 13 | 62% felt that they should be cared for in the community in ordinary homes rather than in special homes or hospitals |
| 14 | Popular movements between the late fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries are best understood in the broader context of developments in peasant society , even although most such risings seem to have been prompted by political or fiscal considerations rather than by social grievances . |
| 15 | It is invariably better to provide material diagrammatically , systematically or at least in well-structured short paragraphs rather than in flowing prose . |
| 16 | Unison doublings do not help much , if at all , except in the case of high trumpet parts being doubled in unison by clarinets to give steadiness and confidence to the trumpets rather than for any definitely musical result ( e.g. clarinets have been used with great success to double the extremely high trumpet parts to be found in the works of Bach and Handel ) . |
| 17 | He introduced an optional tariff in which all night units were cheaper , and persuaded manufacturers to produce night storage heaters , though this night tariff was not widely promoted and was used by shops and offices rather than by domestic consumers initially . |
| 18 | But as the dangerous fighters increased in numbers they would increasingly have to fight against other dangerous fighters rather than against timid , restrained fighters . |
| 19 | Attention is thereby directed towards qualities and relationships rather than to external aspects such as monetary worth or historical background . |
| 20 | CDC , a 3,000-employee outfit , is now divided between manufacturing systems and information management system units rather than along geographical lines . |
| 21 | Rocks like pumice , which are ejected as broken , solid fragments rather than in liquid form , are known as pyroclastic rocks ( pyro — fire , clastic — broken = broken by fire ) . |
| 22 | Political parties provided the labels with which electors could identify , and elections became gladiatorial contests between parties rather than between individual candidates . |
| 23 | On the whole , we would prefer to dispose of blocks of married quarters to housing associations rather than to local authorities . |
| 24 | Some means of checking companies ' compliance with the code is seen as essential if real improvements are to be made across all listed companies rather than in those which are already well run . |
| 25 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) highlights the fact that the pressure in district councils has been to build ( if at all ) in larger settlements rather than in isolated locations . |
| 26 | An explanation for this negative attitude towards the union lies in the way the women identified themselves in terms of their domestic lives rather than as paid workers . |
| 27 | From a provincial background , outside the ranks of the medical élite , Curgenven characteristically sought increased professional status by a series of official posts rather than through private practice . |
| 28 | Most of the dogs that come up for rehoming do so because of a change in domestic circumstances rather than through any temperament problems . |
| 29 | The place looks like a fortress and may have been occupied by Greek mercenaries rather than by Greek traders . |
| 30 | The first two examples discussed below illustrate different ways in which the linguistic model is used to develop a narrative model , and the third , Genette 's Narrative Discourse ( which does not use strictly linguistic analytical categories ) , illustrates somewhat differently the structuralist preoccupation with abstract models rather than with individual texts . |