Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the Louvre uses private donations rather than government funds to make its most expensive acquisitions . |
| 2 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 3 | Richard Goldschmidt 's problem — which was one of a set that made him resort , for most of his professional life , to the extreme belief that evolution takes great leaps rather than small steps — turns out to be no problem at all . |
| 4 | Perhaps this reflects over-ambitious goals rather than failure of the projects , for it will only be when attempts to calm large areas are made that possibilities emerge of encouraging former car journeys to be made by public transport . |
| 5 | First , like all others , it represents general tendencies rather than exact categories . |
| 6 | Some writing of Jennings , for example , seems more in tune with Pound 's sociological jurisprudence , which views social interests rather than legal rules and principles as the building blocks of the legal order . |