Example sentences of "rather [conj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odd policy to put the stage in the middle of the room rather than at one end leads to a diminishing of the atmosphere ( the corners are seldom filled ) . |
| 2 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 3 | Dyson , besides , though unpublished and ‘ a don at Reading ’ ( as he always half-ironically described himself ) rather than at Oxford , was more a man of the world than either Tolkien or Lewis . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I did n't think you would come , ’ she said , and laughed , not at all a confused laugh , but quiet , and at herself rather than at him , looking down at her cupped hands as she did so . |
| 5 | The degree of a gelding 's aggressiveness appears to be governed more by heredity , rather than at what age he was castrated . |
| 6 | An important qualification is that we are looking at groups of professionals and the manner in which they are organised rather than at individual teachers — at this latter level there can be little doubt that many individual teachers do respond to client needs despite the structure around them . |
| 7 | The grandchildren always bathed in her kitchen rather than at home , and she ‘ looked after our heads ’ for lice , while after the bath the blind grandfather ‘ used to tickle our backs with stick in front of fire . ’ |
| 8 | Since , however , the effect is a dispersion at molecular level , rather than at particle or droplet level , for practical purposes the end result is the same . |
| 9 | In an indefinitely long game , the important point is that we can both win at the expense of the banker , rather than at the expense of one another . |
| 10 | This led to the belief that Christ 's divine nature originated at his birth rather than at his baptism . |
| 11 | Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) . |
| 12 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 13 | Why might you prefer to have a factory at Exeter or Taunton rather than at Bodmin or Redruth ? |
| 14 | In this way , individual operations can be shaped to be realistic rather than at odds with the likely outcome . |
| 15 | Peak generation occurs at about 1% reflectance rather than at the 2–3% reflectance reported in a number of published studies . |
| 16 | The reefs in Denmark are surrounded by carbonate mudstones and in this case they probably grew on the upper part of the submarine slope rather than at the edge of the platform . |
| 17 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 18 | The ‘ definitive ’ John Barnard Ferrari will make its debut at the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in June 1993 rather than at the start of 1994 as originally scheduled . |
| 19 | At the time this criticism was directed at her rather than at me . |
| 20 | She refers to the lines joining them as ‘ lines of force ’ , and states that pagans worship the Old Gods on these rather than at the power centres themselves which had tended to have been ‘ exorcized ’ by the Christians by the erection of chapels dedicated to St Michael . |
| 21 | The small piece of hedge , woven like a basket with the traditional hazel and willow , is now planted facing the harbour side for the benefit of photographers rather than at right angles to the bank . |
| 22 | The best time to start exercising is at the start rather than at the end of a dieting campaign . |
| 23 | Being at the start of a slimming programme , rather than at a midway stage . |
| 24 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |
| 25 | 'Really ? ’ observed Ivy ; ‘ one can not imagine anyone doing anything in the afternoon between 2 and 4 , except hoping that tea would be at 4 rather than at 5 . ’ |
| 26 | Aim over the top of the microphone rather than at it . |
| 27 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 28 | ( Bank loans , of course , are often subject to a personal interview , at the bank rather than at home . ) |
| 29 | There was now greater co-operation with Customs officers on the Continent , with officers able to deal on a personal level with each other rather than at senior status — ensuring a quick and efficient exchange of information . |
| 30 | Anne McIntosh , MEP for north east Essex , has been campaigning against UK rates of excise duty which , she says , are making people buy drink on the Continent rather than at British shops . |