Example sentences of "rather than [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word landscape implies an aesthetic rather than practical relation to an environment . |
| 2 | The functional rather than case-finding approach to this screening raises different issues . |
| 3 | The content of the tannoy message and the tutorial period showed the balance towards positive rather than negative messages to children - indeed there was something almost pythonesque about the one negative comment on the tannoy message when it was said ‘ You know what we do to transistor radios ’ . |
| 4 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 5 | New accountability processes have to grapple with the problem of legitimising managerial autonomy and discretion ( to achieve results ) with the need to give real rather than fictional accounts to the various publics with which the organisation interacts . |
| 6 | There is some evidence that the desire to find one rather than alternative answers to a problem may have its origins in patterns of indigenous education . |
| 7 | This category was now proving vital to Bolshevik organization in the Roslavl' uezd , even if much of its work was more like security and espionage rather than positive encouragement to the peasantry to collaborate with the party . |
| 8 | It is for cases of this kind , where the evidence shows that there was active persuasion rather than compassionate assistance to someone already determined to commit suicide , that a substantial maximum penalty is thought necessary . |
| 9 | Models of interdependence deal with mutual vulnerability between states rather than shared vulnerability to global processes . |
| 10 | Added to which , in modern warfare , breaches of security are potentially ever more fatal , so that artists have less rather than more access to the front than in the past . |
| 11 | Added to which , in modern warfare , breaches of security are potentially ever more fatal , so that artists have less rather than more access to the front than in the past . |
| 12 | Storage heights of 50 m appears to be a distinct possibility , racked rather than stacked goods to be the general trend and an increasing degree of automation to be likely . |
| 13 | These problems were never entirely overcome and fluctuations of enthusiasm in the use of the economic boycott/free-produce tactic depended on temporary external factors rather than permanent solutions to the difficulties . |
| 14 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 15 | A good many were there for the fun , rather than any dedication to the anti-Fascist cause . |
| 16 | It was clearly his national eminence , rather than any claim to be a natural arbiter of local affairs , which made his lordship attractive . |
| 17 | It was clearly his national eminence , rather than any claim to be a natural arbiter of local affairs , which made his lordship attractive . |
| 18 | The relative ignorance of judges and barristers about such films led the Criminal Bar Association to testify to Williams in 1978 that the deprave-and-corrupt test had outlived its usefulness , which led that Committee to recommend replacement of the criminal test by a scheme of prohibition based on physical rather than psychological harm to ( 1 ) children involved in child pornography , and ( 2 ) humans or animals involved in so-called ‘ snuff movies ’ . |
| 19 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |