Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions for the application of the defence are cumulative rather than alternatives , so that if the publisher fails to meet any one of them , the defence fails . |
| 2 | The decisive qualifications for profitable Bible study are spiritual rather than intellectual . |
| 3 | The latter phenomena have been extensively analysed in the limit B 0 , in which the Ikeda mapping becomes one-dimensional and can be realised in a so-called hybrid system in which the feedback is electronic rather than optical . |
| 4 | The guidance is persuasive rather than prescriptive and has a lower level of authority than statements of auditing standards . |
| 5 | On , so their effect is negative rather than positive . |
| 6 | We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous . |
| 7 | The dangers of excessive alcohol are perhaps more obvious and the real problem here is that the effect is cumulative rather than merely temporary . |
| 8 | Furthermore , in the UK the bulk of investment is institutional rather than private . |
| 9 | The production of these ideological forms would be by people whose labour is mental rather than material , whose product has effects in a world of ideas and social relations rather than the material world of objects . |
| 10 | ‘ I see your condition is diet-controlled rather than by the use of insulin . ’ |
| 11 | He knelt to check the old man 's pulse only to discover that the President was uncaring rather than unconscious . |
| 12 | Indeed , most companies responding admitted to employing headhunters principally for such strategic positions as Gozzard indicated , so inevitably their usage of search was exceptional rather than everyday . |
| 13 | Dr Clarke contends that while Keynesianism was overthrown on the pretext that it did not ‘ work ’ , the collapse was political rather than theoretical . |
| 14 | His intention was philanthropic rather than commercial . |
| 15 | The soloist , Crispian Steele-Perkins , plays it almost impeccably yet , once again , I felt the effect was decorative rather than assertive . |
| 16 | Nigel had the same beak of a nose , but , without the dark eyes , its effect was comic rather than forceful . |
| 17 | His approach to modernism was aesthetic rather than sociological or mechanistic , although he built a fine primary school at Whitwood Mere , near Castleford , Yorkshire ( 1939 ) . |
| 18 | Mapping applications The precise and particular methods of engineering geophysics can be invaluable in geological mapping , where problems of structure and stratigraphy are local rather than regional . |
| 19 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |
| 20 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 21 | Originally infers that the work is innovative rather than derivative , and that it has involved skill and creativity . |
| 22 | An even more important distinction is the fact that the remedial work is expressive rather than productive . |
| 23 | Each of the component words , who , is , the and girl has variant forms which can be associated with " Creole " or " LE " , as follows : The first version , in line 4 , of who is the girl ? is probably Samuel 's most " London " version , although even here girl is gyal rather than the London gel which Chris uses consistently . |
| 24 | In 1939 fashions were similar to the 1960s vogue , which may explain why Mr Cross believed the girl was real rather than an apparition . |
| 25 | Unlike reference , substitution and ellipsis are grammatical rather than semantic relationships . |
| 26 | In the speech Gorbachev expressed his personal support for the United Nations , which had ‘ increasingly manifested its ability to act as a unique international centre in the service of peace and security ’ , and repeated his belief that the most important issues that faced the world community were global rather than regional in character . |
| 27 | Despite the publicity ( and acrimony ) surrounding the ‘ two cultures ’ debate in the early 1960s ( Snow 1964 ; Leavis and Yudkin 1962 ) , the distinction is implicit rather than overt in Robbins ( 1963 ) , although the worries about the intake of maths/science-based students show through in several sections ( see , for example , Robbins 1963 , Table 45 ) . |
| 28 | Has arranged a blood pressure shot using a digital blood pressure reader : still uses a cuff and pad but readout is digital rather than mercury . |
| 29 | That is , adjudication is deliberative rather than deductive ; it is concerned with the meaning of lex in a contingent situation and ‘ meanings are never deduced or found but are always attributed or given ’ . |
| 30 | It would appear that the objection to local income tax is political rather than practical . |