Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | This low faecal output of SCFA seems likely to reflect impaired generation of SCFA rather than enhanced absorption of SCFA in the presence of diarrhoea . |
| 2 | How you persuade people to buy this sort of thing rather than that sort of thing . ’ |
| 3 | In his television series The Long Search , screened in 1977 , he travelled the world in search of faith , only to conclude that God ( if He existed ) was unlikely to favour one form of religion rather than another . |
| 4 | These people have met new friends , gained in confidence and , most of all , self respect and would rather be doing some form of work rather than wasting away at home . |
| 5 | This view , it appears , is too simple-minded : a baby does not become a different kind of adult for being bottle-rather than breast-fed , for being weaned early rather than late , for encountering one kind of attitude rather than another at some particular time . |
| 6 | They felt that such schemes allowed young people to have direct experience of engineering rather than relying purely upon second-hand information ( from teachers or the media ) . |
| 7 | If the BMA is to be taken seriously then it should espouse more worthy causes that have some prospect of success rather than politically correct harebrained schemes such as this , which is as likely to bear fruit as ‘ pigs are to fly , ’ to quote the two speakers . |
| 8 | But while it is relatively straightforward to find what courses are available " it is much more difficult to discover what has actually happened , and is likely to happen , to people who have chosen one course of study rather than another … |