Example sentences of "rather than as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War . |
| 2 | He has told civil servants at the DTI to address him henceforth as president rather than as the traditional Secretary of State . |
| 3 | Yet the frustratingly small amount we are told about the marriage emerges in the form of Paulina 's anguished revelations rather than as the outcome of discussion and challenge . |
| 4 | Korpi and Shalev ( 1979 ) insist that the development and pattern of collective bargaining in this country must be seen largely as a consequence rather than as the cause of changes in trade union density . |
| 5 | By treating his subject as widely as possible , by seeing it in terms of the history of war , rather than as the more narrowly defined military history , the modern student will come to understand it in its many facets and complexities . |
| 6 | In all these cases regional incentives might be important , but only in the context of a need to reduce costs and an ability to move , rather than as the initial motivation , and as part of a bundle of considerations rather than as a separable ‘ factor ’ . |
| 7 | In this way particularization is viewed as operating in the service of categorization , rather than as the counterpart , which provides the possibility of negation . |
| 8 | The ‘ folk community ’ is idealized , with no recognition of the huge variety of musical practices ( and social forms ) involved ( think of the differences between the music , and social function , of , say , West African griots , American Indian ceremonial songs and European medieval ballads ) ; in very , very few — if any — of these cases is there no class differentiation ( and thus hierarchies , divisions of function , and so on ) ; in none would it be true to say that musical production occurs ‘ naturally ’ rather than as the result of learned skills and conventions . |
| 9 | Increasingly it is merely used for its amenities — schools , shops , etc. — rather than as the social centre which it once was . |
| 10 | They reckoned that they had already entered into their reign with Christ : they were already rich already filled with the powers of the Age to Come ( 1 Cor 4:8 ) Paul comes down immediately like a ton of bricks on this attitude which regards the Spirit as a medium of religious experience or an embodiment of supernatural power , rather than as the vocation to and equipment for the role of the Servant . |
| 11 | The magnates ruled the localities by the end of the thirteenth century as political bosses , rather than as the petty princes they had been in the twelfth century . |
| 12 | Despite the broad nature of the changes , however , the results were perceived by many as change for the sake of change , rather than as the result of the President having found a new formula to deal with the main problems of inflation , the breakdown in government services and the poor state of the economy . |
| 13 | He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office . |
| 14 | What is odd about the comparison made in Webb is that the comparison is used as the evidence to show that the unfavourable treatment is not gender related rather than as the basis of a comparison for similar treatment . |
| 15 | It is important to note , however , that the categories used in the Rolfe and Will lists may have been assigned for reasons of literary expediency , rather than as the result of rigorous classification . |
| 16 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 17 | This was how he remembered her , rather than as the cancer-pained rag doll he had nursed until her death . |
| 18 | Perhaps all judges do accept the authority of the Constitution as a matter of convention rather than as the upshot of sound political theory . |