Example sentences of "rather [conj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The postwar generation , unschooled in the brutality of hardships of war and reconstruction , compares its lot with that of West Germans , with double their standard of living , rather than with their neighbours to the East , to whom the mountains of sausages and pigs ' trotters in butchers ' shops would seem like a dream come true . |
| 2 | She herself , though a product of Oxford University , identified with wealth-producers and businessmen rather than with academics and intellectuals . |
| 3 | She agreed with the Bishop of Lincoln rather than with the students of Lincoln , for she thought him a disaster in the pulpit ; blinking , and articulating his words with difficulty , and often using the peculiar phrase ‘ paradoxic ally speaking ’ . |
| 4 | John Winant , the US ambassador in Britain , wrote on 28 February that this reflected Britain 's concern with security rather than with ‘ commercial enterprise ’ ; ‘ It also reflects the British apprehension that they may be swamped competitively by US aviation and their consequent desire to guarantee themselves a percentage , even though small , of the available business . ’ |
| 5 | The importance which Engels attributed to this came entirely from his anthropological sources and really reflects an old-fashioned type of archaeology obsessed with material remains rather than with the general way of life . |
| 6 | But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it . |
| 7 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 8 | CIA men looked askance at him , particularly since he dealt directly with the highest officers in the agency , preferably Casey , rather than with them . |
| 9 | Perhaps understandably , in view of the problems he encountered and the opposition of some members of the county council , his concern was to establish prestigious links between village colleges and the University of Cambridge in the provision of adult education rather than with the much less regarded WEA . |
| 10 | Interest rates Short-term management of the economy has meant that governments manipulate interest rates to ensure reelection , rather than with the long term interests of the economy in mind . |
| 11 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 12 | As a gesture , rather than with serious intent , I bank fished . |
| 13 | The intention was , firstly , to devise a service which was client-centred , which was sufficiently flexible to provide an individually tailored package of care which would meet the wishes of each client , and fit in with his or her timetable rather than with that of the service-providers . |
| 14 | The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts . |
| 15 | The corporate planning departments therefore felt that they should be more concerned with the overall economic views rather than with details . |
| 16 | The football authorities in England accepted the explanation and sided with Gallacher and the Newcastle team , probably as a gesture of national protocol rather than with the conviction that the Scot was telling the truth . |
| 17 | The emphasis was thus on using firms for the development of a local area and for its people — rather than with using people for the development of private firms in an area . |
| 18 | Outings to concerts or the cinema , and gardening and outdoor work are also likely to be more popular with one or two people on their own rather than with a whole group . |
| 19 | It usually works best to make outings as normal as you can — ie , go with just two or three people to a concert or the theatre rather than with a whole organised group which will stand out . |
| 20 | The latter question is concerned with a judgement of the aims of the course rather than with the functioning of the course . |
| 21 | They prefer to associate with the machine rather than with human beings , although they may make exceptions for fellow hackers . |
| 22 | The procedure is very informal ; a short note or even a telephone call will suffice in the first instance as we are mainly interested in concepts rather than with detailed descriptions . |
| 23 | The basic theory is rather than with increasing variation in boat shapes and canoeing activity we can no longer use one single approved style of paddling . |
| 24 | If ideals or values are essentially statements of faith which can not be logically sustained then much of our examination will be concerned with persuasion rather than with facts in themselves . |
| 25 | They ran when we came , and the Friar shared his food with us rather than with them . ’ |
| 26 | To my mind his strong points are his single note two-hand tapping ( which is often done with the side of the pick rather than with a right-hand finger — see Satch Boogie ) , his chordal tapping ( as in Midnight , The Forgotten Part 1 and Headless ) and his tremolo and legato work ( as in nearly everything ! ) . |
| 27 | Welfare feminists were concerned with the health and welfare of working-class women , especially the relief of their poverty , rather than with pressing for changes in the role of women in the family . |
| 28 | Labour 's concern should be with the initial distribution of wealth , rather than with a post hoc redistribution . |
| 29 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 30 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |