Example sentences of "rather [conj] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was supposed to do this , unless it was raining , by going out the front door and down the area steps , rather than through her grandmother 's bedroom . |
| 2 | In backing a Petrakov plan , Mr Gorbachev risks popular unrest as well as revolt within the Communist party ( and perhaps the resignation of his prime minister , Mr Nikolai Ryzhkov , if economic policy is rammed through by decree rather than through his government ) . |
| 3 | Most of the dogs that come up for rehoming do so because of a change in domestic circumstances rather than through any temperament problems . |
| 4 | It involves only small changes to existing slurry disposal practices , the chief one being that slurry is applied through injectors rather than through a discharge nozzle . |
| 5 | ‘ Trade union involvement must remain at the heart of the party but it must be based far more on individual choice and decision rather than through the exercise of a block vote , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Co-operation with the LEAs was equally important and was to be sought on a basis of complementary provision rather than through competitive relationships . |
| 7 | … if the approach is through the intellect rather than through intuition , that is , through a tangible and examinable process of understanding and thinking , rather than through an imaginative and emotional and therefore intangible process of relishing and enjoying , irrespective of whether or not there is full understanding ( p. 8 ) . |
| 8 | By studying science through its pathology rather than through some preconceived criterion , it is easier to see the process as it is . ’ |
| 9 | This strategy was possible because they have sold mainframes mostly to computer vendors in the country concerned rather than through direct sales channels . |
| 10 | Professor Cox and his team compromise by stressing the value of knowledge and grammatical discipline , while recommending that these should be achieved through experience with words rather than through the study of grammatical terms in isolation . ’ |
| 11 | While bears , wolves and the like undoubtedly eat mountain goats , they probably do so through scavenging for carcasses rather than through direct predation . |
| 12 | Colombia , it is true , still seems to regard herself as an Atlantic nation — her trade goes principally through the Caribbean port of Cartagena rather than through the dire and crime-ridden wharves of the Pacific port of Buenaventura ; but Ecuador ( which has island possessions in the Ocean ) and Peru seem to be becoming further and further entwined in Pacific matters ; and Chile — ah , Chile ! |
| 13 | ‘ Through observation and study , Brother , rather than through ecstatic intuition . |
| 14 | Whenever possible , Ministerial intervention is achieved through negotiation ( rather than through detailed legislative powers ) and by the use of fiat , circulars and regulations permitted within the legislative framework . |
| 15 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 16 | We move through dialogue rather than through our power and authority , which is very limited anyway . |
| 17 | Now , though , there is an administration in Washington which believes in helping technologies directly , rather than through spin-off . |
| 18 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 19 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 20 | X/Open is pushing the DCE specifications through a fast track procedure for adoption , which means they go straight to a vote by its members rather than through a prolonged period of technical evaluation , work already done exhaustively by OSF in any case . |
| 21 | To some extent this was inevitable given the US decision to operate through a civilian Japanese administration rather than through the US military command . |
| 22 | This feature of the company together with the increasing substitution of the organization of economic activity within the company rather than through the markets suggested that there had been an enormous growth in the power of corporate management . |
| 23 | Equally the way in which economic activity has increasingly come to be organized within the company rather than through the market is something to be celebrated instead of feared . |
| 24 | I believe that it is valuable for children to learn to use this experience , and to become able , at will , to look at language rather than through it , to think about it as well as with it . |
| 25 | It would guarantee continued German coal to France 's steel industry in Lorraine but would do this by a voluntary system , which Germany would join as an equal , rather than through the draconian controls which France had earlier favoured . |
| 26 | Regarding relations with the Allies he hoped to extend his government 's rights to full sovereignty , but by a policy of friendship and reconciliation rather than through the demanding style favoured by Schumacher . |
| 27 | The Bugis step their masts directly on to the deck rather than through it on to the hull floor beneath . |
| 28 | From a provincial background , outside the ranks of the medical élite , Curgenven characteristically sought increased professional status by a series of official posts rather than through private practice . |
| 29 | The money could be allocated openly rather than through ‘ hidden tax in the form of food prices which hit hardest those least able to pay ’ . |
| 30 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |