Example sentences of "rather [conj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | History in this case was the product of a specialized group ; and the arguments about the quality of the product were about its beauty , metre , wit , rather than about its truth , typicality and meaning . |
| 2 | Besides , socialism was , in my mind at least , associated with the sharing of resources and pleasures , rather than about Byzantine state bureaucracies . |
| 3 | One may say that to be an authority on a certain matter is to be an authority about what to believe rather than about what to do . |
| 4 | It was that point in the morning when people usually began to think about the soup and potatoes that were expected shortly , rather than about the books they were reading . |
| 5 | Unfortunately if you are a bit inquisitive , I would prefer to talk about my Dynamique rather than about myself or my success . |
| 6 | For it sees him changing his mind about the adaptiveness of structural change rather than about species formation as such . |
| 7 | And both women and men may project their ideas about gender , rather than about themselves , onto stimuli like the story above . |
| 8 | That they are really writing about the superiority of their own academic tradition , rather than about some universal characteristics of literacy in itself , becomes apparent when they pursue the implications of literacy for language forms . |
| 9 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 10 | There might be some advantage if anthropologists regularly wrote about " cosmology " rather than about " religion " , if only because the former word is not much used by ordinary speakers of ordinary English . |
| 11 | The preferences of individual students may be determined in whole or part by the collective feeling about the teacher rather than about the subject itself . |
| 12 | Rather than about the working of the place cos . |