Example sentences of "it be [verb] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is constructed rather than discovered by the historian . |
| 2 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 3 | because I think women have traditionally been very reluctant both to report domestic violence and hearing echo 's of what women are saying here , in terms of women looking into their own behaviours , to why it is happening rather than er having it labelled as a crime and I think one of the , the , the main thrust of the project , the women involved in is to raise the profile of domestic violence into being a criminal act . |
| 4 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 5 | That , says McKinsey , is because they spend money where it is needed rather than on grand castles in the air . |
| 6 | Although excitement mounted in the last movement , it was induced rather than fermented . |
| 7 | In the longer term , it was Reformed rather than Lutheran theology that came to dominate Elizabethan Protestantism . |