Example sentences of "they be [noun] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are concepts rather than actual objects . |
| 2 | If a large sum of Eurodollars is borrowed and then used in a transaction , the recipient of the dollars does not see that they are Eurodollars rather than ‘ domestic ’ US$ . |
| 3 | This issue too concerns third parties , although this time they are creditors rather than buyers . |
| 4 | They are men rather than women , they are more highly qualified , their assignments are longer and , most significantly , they are often very explicitly self-employed , operating as one-man limited companies . |
| 5 | They are weapons rather than protective coverings . |
| 6 | They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending . |
| 7 | This distinctive feature may have been retained to convince a money-conscious Council that they were rebuilds rather than new cars ! |
| 8 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 9 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |