Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | A licence fee will cost about £10 and users will be charged for each unit of information rather than by the minute , although there will be no charge for customers linking into GSN . |
| 2 | They often pay a higher pension , based on 1/60th for each year of service rather than l/80th , but the tax-free lump sum has to be bought by giving up part of your pension . |
| 3 | Rollin talks of it as ‘ feelings ’ , and so avoids this , yet his examples rather suggest choices for this course of action rather than that . ) |
| 4 | Having come out of that side of politics rather than the other , I always start where people are , and with what they want , and what their lives are like , and what will help them . |
| 5 | Current educational programmes aimed at all school children on the risks of drug abuse may fail to emphasise the major risks of alcohol and of some prescribed medicines and they may make the false assumptions that : a. drug addiction is simply a product of repeated use of drugs rather than a specific risk of some particular individuals . |
| 6 | The problem with these diseases is that they are diagnosed on the basis of indirect evidence of infection rather than by identifying a specific microorganism . |
| 7 | Second , regional policies play an ideological role favourable to private capital : they present the economic recession as a problem of geographical distribution of jobs rather than what it is — a problem of simply insufficient jobs on a national level . |
| 8 | I think those 'd probably be better with that kind of response rather than the previous one |
| 9 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 10 | So these are the things that are worrying Robyn Penrose as she drives through the gates of the University , with a nod and a smile to the security man in his little glass sentry box : her lecture on the Industrial Novel , her job future , and her relationship with Charles — in that order of conspicuousness rather than importance . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was in some sort of store-room rather than the garage . |
| 12 | There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another . |
| 13 | For the moment , at least , I should prefer to rely on that process of negotiation rather than on anything else . |
| 14 | Here it would be wise to offer a set of modules limited to some aspect of EP rather than try to cover the whole in less depth . |
| 15 | The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness . |
| 16 | The person may also have other genetic or environmental reasons to be susceptible to one type of disorder rather than another . |
| 17 | The essential point , then , is that the NPV approach to evaluating alternative cash streams is a generally correct valuation model where the discount rate is the opportunity cost of committing resources to one course of action rather than another . |
| 18 | And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be . |
| 19 | Even his overseas expansion was prescribed by rational identification of opportunity rather than the quasi-imperialism that typified much of the ambition in the UK advertising agency sector . |