Example sentences of "rather [conj] [det] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way of life of the Dalmatian peasants and fisherfolk , and of the citizens of the former Venetian colonies of Split , Šibenik and Zadar has for centuries resembled that of the Italians on the western shore of the Adriatic rather than that of their Slav cousins who inhabit the Balkan interior . |
| 2 | Whereas Guedron had considerable sense of drama , Boësset had more talent for lyricism and the love-song , and it was his path rather than that of his father-in-law which was followed by the younger composers , of whom Francois Richard the elder ( d. 1650 ) and Étienne Moulinié ( c. 1600–after 1669 ) were the most gifted . |
| 3 | Concretely , modern families are nuclear , consisting only of parents and children , and conjugal , emphasizing the relationship between husband and wife rather than either of their relationships with their own families of origin . |
| 4 | This , he claimed , meant that they sometimes had to act more rather than less on their own initiative . |
| 5 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 6 | This overlapping of styles is seen throughout the entire pre-war period , and since every phase contains the seeds for future developments , one is forced to take as focal points works in which discoveries or innovations are fully realized , rather than those in which they are first suggested . |
| 7 | Secondly , Apple was very a very hungry company at that point in time and desperately needed a prop to hold the company up ( it was undoubtedly the LaserWriter that saved the company 's financial fortunes rather than any of its computers ) . |
| 8 | The Encomiast has Emma stipulating that a son of hers , rather than any of his other progeny , should be given the succession , and in the circumstances this seems a plausible feature of the deal , especially as she had evidently earlier required the English to guarantee that her son Edward would succeed Æthelred . |
| 9 | Personally , rather than any of our sharply-suited young tenor-players , I would nominate a pianist — Marian McPartland . |