Example sentences of "rather [conj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its members serviceable rather than specialists in this particular early 17th century idiom . |
| 2 | Other energies , such as heat , are seen as manifestations of prana , rather than energies in their own right . |
| 3 | This simplifies the response aspect of the task and makes it more likely that errors will be the result of difficulties in understanding the verbal stimulus , rather than problems in signalling what has been understood . |
| 4 | Firstly , studies comparing salmeterol 50 µg twice daily with salbutamol 200 µg four times a day are not comparing equi–effective doses and differences between the two drugs may be due to differences in dose rather than differences in drug . |
| 5 | interrupt girls rather than boys in conversation . |
| 6 | However , given the previous discussion of the patriarchal roots of the ideology of suburbia , does it matter that poor women without husbands and with children will find themselves increasingly dependent on flats in decaying inner-city areas rather than houses in the leafy suburbs ? |
| 7 | His stance was supported yesterday by the British Chambers of Commerce , which demanded that the Treasury rather than businesses in the North and Midlands should finance the three-year safety net to cushion the rate 's impact in the South . |
| 8 | The party may nevertheless dominate the bureaucracy , thereby leaving politicians rather than administrators in control . |
| 9 | They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending . |
| 10 | The innovations in production processes they deal with are those embodied in new types of machinery , transport and instruments rather than innovations in the organization of labour even though the former are , in fact , closely linked to the latter . |
| 11 | Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy . |
| 12 | However difficulties arise simply because we are dealing with patients in a hospital rather than products in a factory . |
| 13 | During the course of dissections of cadaver club feet he recognized the role of muscles and tendons rather than bones in this deformity . |
| 14 | New policies — in particular the move to interventionist industrial policy in the 1960s — were , for all their political rhetoric , often in the nature of additions to existing ones rather than changes in them . |
| 15 | Almost 60 per cent of the annual fertility rate change in the upturn and in the downturn of the US baby boom were due to tempo changes rather than changes in final family size ( Ryder 1980 ) . |
| 16 | This downward bias will be more severe the more that changes in actual income are due to changes in v t rather than changes in expected income ; in other words , the more inaccurate our measure of expected income is , the greater is the severity of the bias . |
| 17 | As the actual cash payout varies according to the firm 's performance rather than changes in the long run payout ratio , the information content of dividends says nothing about the significance of the size of the payout ratio in the valuation of securities . |
| 18 | This is the key domain of the calculating , rationalist attitude , obsessed with time , which sees other individuals as merely partners in a transaction , rather than individuals in their own right . |
| 19 | ( They add that most of the improvement in speed is due to better programming rather than advances in chip technology ) . |
| 20 | Indeed , reductions rather than increases in tax rates were a feature of the period . |
| 21 | But the spokeswoman stressed it was the length of wait rather than numbers in the queue that mattered . |
| 22 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 23 | The latter was exceptional in many ways because of its large-scale employment of women rather than men in the jute mills . |
| 24 | Junk bonds and hostile takeovers are mechanisms and outcomes rather than causes in themselves ; building sea walls against them will not deal with their origins . |
| 25 | Siemens uses arrays of hundreds of tiny light-emitting diodes rather than lasers in the 2140 printer because it reckons they provide more accurate printed text and graphics , faster . |