Example sentences of "[unc] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precedent for this is to be found in Campra 's petits motets rather than in his stage music . |
| 2 | If the payments are ex gratia rather than to compensate the individual for loss of a contractual entitlement , they may amount to distributions within s209 or " other benefits or facilities of whatever nature " which are treated as distributions by s418 of the Taxes Act when paid by a close company . |
| 3 | Without even criticizing the valuable work done by the private sector audit firms it should be a matter of principle that their reports should be presented to the C & AG rather than to the respective Secretary of State . |
| 4 | So it could be that there were line from eighty one would come up to the eight five based starting point er a rather than the eighty nine based starting point on the graph . |
| 5 | Oh me , I would of thought more and more people would fly rather rather than perhaps the business men are n't , looking over the old New Jersey , or New Walkie something like that , a veteran . |
| 6 | This is not the artificial ‘ historical Jesus ’ , but the Jesus who was and is seen and trusted as the Christ of God , the Christ of Geschichte rather than the mere Jesus of Historie . |
| 7 | Planning can balance demand and supply ex ante rather than ex post , so avoiding substantial waste of resources . |
| 8 | But when visitors to the countryside are considered en masse rather than on an individual basis , then the farmer 's traditional nervousness towards the urban population begins to take over . |
| 9 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 10 | To tau , to teach pe , school children about sexual pleasure for instance , er er er rather than the biological facts of reproduction ? |
| 11 | er rather than function . |
| 12 | and sometimes it 's , it 's , it 's er rather than ring up , write a letter , cos it 's surprising how differently things are treated if it 's in writing . |
| 13 | Erm yeah , when er rather than saying that something is a heavy mass and it move and it 's got a good acceleration you can just say it 's got good . |
| 14 | Er for example the ones that they fitted on the , the vertical boring mills , were round er in nature , bolted through the centre to a tool post and subsequently when they went into action , they were so hard you know , that they could outstrip the existing type of tip tool erm because the , the material itself stood up better to the cutting flow er er rather than the , the tip tool which was inclined to chip . |
| 15 | Er the only thing is that er it was the people on the workshop floor that were paid from it er rather than the er planning er personnel or indeed the drawing office . |
| 16 | But on the other hand we thought I suppose oh good riddance you know er rather than have a few er namby-pamby people you know sitting on the fence , we might be better off without them . |
| 17 | Erm try and where possible to use the individual communication with them as opposed to erm communicating to them as a member of a group preferably in a relaxed environment er rather than a sort of erm including any decision making pass on as much credit for that decision as possible |
| 18 | Er rather than being erm over er at forty thousand , for that we are , are pleased that the extra erm people is in work , but nevertheless we still have this very high level and we have a problem given the restructuring of the economy , I 'd better shut up because my colleagues er Chris and Jane are going to talk about erm another closure intending closure and yet more redundancies again er , it happens in Hatfield . |
| 19 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 20 | just one question that I was n't able to put on the Committee 's behalf , but I think it is something that we would be very grateful for a short written comment and that is the information that your members , that the members of the pension funds actually er rather than your annual members as well in that context actually receive annually and whether you feel that is satisfactory . |
| 21 | Er rather than |
| 22 | at night , it 's a smart set rath er rather than in the day |
| 23 | All HLA-B35 individuals were typed by the previously described PCR method to confirm that they had the B3501 rather than the B3502 or B3503 subtypes : these latter subtypes are not amplified by the primers used . |
| 24 | In the UK there used to be two taxes that tax wealth per se rather than the income that is derived from wealth . |
| 25 | must have been referring to R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) rather than to the Act of 1960 when he said that ‘ in cases of contempt , however , these powers will be used only in exceptional cases ’ because section 13 is solely concerned with appeals in cases of contempt . |
| 26 | The symbols chosen are those commonly used by linguists , eg. /u , o/ rather than the /y , o/ often found in dictionaries . |
| 27 | The one-day games were now held before the Test series rather than after , an hors d'oeuvre rather than a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was full , but the first game at Headingley was distinctly uninspiring . |
| 28 | That is , given ρ as in 2.7.1 we shall , from now on , write aρb rather than ( a , b ) ρ . |
| 29 | A singer of German songs will sing Lieds rather than Lieder ; Bavaria will be spoken of as one of the German Lands rather than Länder . |
| 30 | All these three types of homoclinic orbit actually occur in the Lorenz equations , and the symmetry of the equations ensures that in all three cases there are two homoclinic orbits as shown in Fig. 6.1a rather than the one shown , for clarity , in Figs 6.1b and c . |