Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 've seen you play , you seem to regard the fretboard from a horizontal point of view , playing along the strings rather than across the fretboard … |
| 2 | One other peculiarity she shared with the four Atlantic states : she had great extra-European interests , though they lay across land frontiers in Asia rather than across the sea . |
| 3 | The system also resulted in chants and songs being directed sideways to the rival fans , rather than across the pitch to the other end . |
| 4 | Currently , practice data are standardised for age by converting list sizes to prescribing units and prescribing costs are expressed per prescribing unit rather than per patient . |
| 5 | We have now changed our statistics to come into line with industrial practice and the recommendations of the Health and Safety Executive , by measuring incidents per 1,000,000 hours , [ rather than per 100,000 hours we used up to 1992 ] . |
| 6 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 7 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 8 | Lowden bridges are unusual in two respects : the saddles are split into two sections for optimum intonation on wound and unwound strings , and the strings mount through from the back of the bridge rather than via the old bridge-pin method , which would mean a longer string-changing time . |
| 9 | Indeed , we have , in the past , returned comments to students on paper rather than via electronic communication . |
| 10 | It feels that the majority of customers will want to route SNA natively , rather than via TCP/IP , and believes that a reduction in royalties would take away the main impetus behind the Cisco Systems Inc-inspired APPI movement . |
| 11 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 12 | Therefore we assume that this particular intron is ancient and propagated via mendelian inheritance rather than via horizontal , interspecific gene transfer . |
| 13 | His distress could have been alleviated with treatment far earlier if he had been diverted into the hospital system straight from the police station , or direct from the court , rather than via prison . |
| 14 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 15 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 16 | It is sited unusually , on flat land rather than atop one of the encircling hills . |
| 17 | Because of , rather than despite its fame , it has been subjected to a prolonged critical attention ( Clinard 1964 ; Lemert 1967 ; Taylor , Walton , and Young 1973 ; Thio 1975 ) . |
| 18 | The eventual thrust of the reform of the German child care legislation has been largely directed towards remedying the above shortcomings of earlier legislation rather than towards grounding the new Act in completely different principles . |
| 19 | Merrill Lynch 's statistics are interesting in that they indicate that companies prefer to give expatriates coming to Britain financial assistance towards buying property rather than towards renting it . |
| 20 | But Daniel Sumner , UK product marketing manager says that Office is actually moving away from the applet approach rather than towards it . |
| 21 | Armagnac 's second marriage , to Béatrix de Clermont , tended ( like that of Gaston I of Foix-Béarn to Jeanne of Artois ) to incline him towards northern France and the Capetian or Valois court rather than towards an absentee king-duke of Aquitaine . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century . |
| 23 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 24 | Hodge had pursued policies from his arrival in Korea designed to strengthen the opposition to communism and to move away from rather than towards cooperation with the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Hence thinking tended to be directed towards minimizing both poverty and associated problems , such as those of economic growth and public order , rather than towards its elimination . |
| 26 | Tax subsidisation of private health care will have moved the market away from rather than towards greater efficiency . |
| 27 | Thus , the UK was still a European leader in innovation in the 1950s and 1960s , but perhaps had a bias towards pure science rather than towards the commercial development of technological ideas that will form the next generation of industries . |
| 28 | The existence of the process element means that evaluation is usually oriented towards detection of need for change rather than towards choice between temporally co-existing alternatives . |
| 29 | Even now the men who gesticulate along La Canebière look towards the sea rather than towards France . |
| 30 | It will be far better for us all if we move towards a greater understanding of each other rather than towards Clause 28 and all that . |