Example sentences of "from [noun] rather [conj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the best broadcasters in Africa have had little in the way of schooling : there is a place in radio for good storytellers , musicians and other men and women with knowledge and wisdom gained from experience rather than from formal education . |
| 2 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 3 | Here the models were from chemistry rather than from history ; the idea was to give an account of how the parts of the organism were formed in embryology , and how they functioned in life . |
| 4 | Approaching the board from side-on rather than from the rear quarter . |
| 5 | They were , however , opposed by many working people on the grounds that those in need — low-paid workers , including most female workers — could not afford to contribute , and deserved after a life of labour a benefit paid from taxation rather than from their own pockets . |
| 6 | The extent to which silver was obtained from galena rather than from natural silver-gold alloys can be judged in part through the presence of lead artefacts and more directly by the purity of silver artefacts . |
| 7 | In some areas , such as in Scotland , increased production would be of existing commodities , such as sheep-meat , but produced from grass rather than from imported soya or petroleum derivatives . |
| 8 | In any case , her main ideological inspiration , like that of Lloyd George , came from people rather than from books . |
| 9 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 10 | With the symmetry of the rest of the geometry we can only assume this to be from choice rather than from the limitations of the designers ' technology . |
| 11 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |