Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabulation is a crude method so the answer using that is slightly different and there is a range of possible transfer prices rather than a single accurate one . |
| 2 | The study will show to what extent the concept of flexibility has penetrated management thinking in the electronics industry and will show , through the use of detailed case analysis rather than survey evidence , the extent to which flexibility has been used as an ideology in which industrial decline is attributed to the restrictive practices of trade union organisation . |
| 3 | According to the inductivist account of science , the secure basis on which the laws and theories that constitute science are built is made up of public observation statements rather than the private , subjective experiences of individual observers . |
| 4 | Recent evidence calls this focus into question , and indicates that the spread of AIDS is a matter of high risk practices rather than group membership . |
| 5 | I believe that the secretary of state would have been better advised to market the acceptability of genitourinary medicine clinics rather than to promote a facility that could impair the health of the nation . |
| 6 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 7 | Two weeks before the General Election of 1983 , she agreed to be interviewed on the BBC Nationwide 's On the Spot in the guise of Tory party leader rather than Prime Minister of Britain . |
| 8 | In the early 1980s , this view was attacked by Peter White in a controversial article which questioned whether the Elizabethan church was ever fully predestinarian , and went on to claim that the apparently religious conflicts within England in the late 1620s were in fact primarily caused by the pressures of international power politics rather than by theological differences . |
| 9 | The expanded girths , embarrassing bodily functions and creative coiffuring I can cope with — but what 's harder to handle is that most groups who reform do so because of shrinking royalty cheques rather than any genuine desire to play together again . |
| 10 | This project is based on three premises : that more young economists , bound for industry , particularly consultancy , the civil service and the city , should have at least been apprenticed in research--hence , in part , the use of occasional research assistants rather than experienced professionals ; that applied economists should pay more attention to the views of non economists , and , in particular of practitioners in the fields they study , hence the emphasis on the flexibility required if we are to look at problems differently , or use different types of evidence ; and that more of us should build our models self consciously , with an eye to analytical convenience and ease of interpretation , considerations which would be less important were economics less inexact , since it might then make sense to seek the correct model , however difficult to analyse and understand . |
| 11 | Figure 2 in the paper looks like a classic example of unilateral reflux nephropathy rather than chronic pyelonephritis . |
| 12 | Hence , it is argued , the technology was developed to meet the requirements of large-scale factory production rather than of small-scale craft producers operating out of their own cottages . |
| 13 | And , with recruitment and turnover of staff , the company should examine its procedures thoroughly to find out whether its inability to recruit skilled people or reduce its high turnover rates could be the result of bad management practice rather than the location . |
| 14 | Prior to World War II working class couples made use of judicial separation machinery rather than divorce , but the number of informal separations was undoubtedly larger than the number that came to court . |
| 15 | Political life in America sometimes seems only to be about bargaining in one form or another : Bargaining skill is indispensable in a chief executive obliged to operate in a pluralist system of decision -making where power is diffused and decentralized , and where there is a multiplicity of significant power holders rather than just a few . |