Example sentences of "[verb] rather [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although iridology is used primarily as a means of detecting problems before other symptoms appear rather than as a way of treating those problems , many iridologists are also herbalists or homoeopaths and can go on to work towards effecting a cure . |
| 2 | There has been a balance Chair , and , and hence the fact that we 've knocked it off as an efficiency saving rather than as a reduction in service . |
| 3 | The contractor is obviously more likely to offer them to someone he knows and likes rather than to a stranger . |
| 4 | With two forks , pull apart the meat and fat ( which should be soft as butter ) so that the rillettes are shredded rather than in a paste . |
| 5 | We argued in this chapter for an interactive model of these two kinds of processing rather than for a model in which syntactic and semantic analyses are carried out independently . |