Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |
| 2 | There are two possible benefits which may result from a moderate rate of inflation or from learning to live with the prevailing rate of inflation rather than adopting policies to reduce it . |
| 3 | The differences of standpoint and content are in fact so marked that they serve to highlight the divine inspiration of Genesis rather than undermine it . |
| 4 | That assertion of professional autonomy was thought to be reinforced by studies which stressed that curriculum development should be school-based , rooted in the professional context of teachers rather than in distant centres such as Whitehall or Edinburgh . |
| 5 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 6 | In places the text is a little unsatisfactory but this reflects the early stage of development rather than the author 's own expertise . |
| 7 | In the Hawthorne experiments that we discussed earlier it was group pressure that determined the appropriate behaviour of individuals rather than formal guidelines , and informal sanctions were imposed if the individual did not conform to the group norms and expectations . |
| 8 | First , commercial convenience dictates that the law is frequently more concerned with the objective appearance of agreement rather than the actual fact of agreement , as was stated in an 1871 judgment : |
| 9 | Efforts in mid-July to resume oil talks suspended in late June failed after the government reportedly turned down UN conditions demanding that oil exports be channelled through Turkey to the Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan rather than through the Iraqi port of Mina al-Bakr . |
| 10 | Thus , it was the accustomed pace of change rather than the fact of an early start , which had already begun to place Britain at a disadvantage in competition against her major rivals at the beginning of the present century . |
| 11 | The only hope for a pessimist like Law was to " get the train on to other lines " — to focus the attention on the national unity of Britain rather than on internal divisions ; in other words to emulate Germany rather than France . |
| 12 | The so-called ‘ structural ’ approach adopted by these studies concentrates upon the organisational structure of unions rather than focusing upon the activities of their membership . |
| 13 | Instead , it has chosen to develop ‘ projections of demand based on the likely availability of resources rather than on detailed assessments of specialty needs . ’ |
| 14 | Up to and including the 1988 social security changes , the basic policy response to the growing numbers of lone-parent families has been to add to or modify the existing system of benefits rather than make any fundamental changes . |
| 15 | This would reinforce their belief in the need to help the latter group of newspapers rather than simply leaving them to market forces . |
| 16 | I would have expected the DoH to present its own views on the legal use of restraint rather than allow regional variations to develop , ’ said Levy . |
| 17 | But gender distinctions in the case of human referents are not arbitrary , and that is why Lyons , for instance , suggests that what is important in communication is the pronominal function of gender rather than the category of gender in general ( 1968 ) . |
| 18 | The hiding strategies themselves produce additional effects that are unwanted and unpleasant , and which may add to the net level of discomfort rather than reducing it . |
| 19 | Nor do they deny the growing popularity of Bolshevik rather than Menshevik slogans and strategy in the pre-war years . |
| 20 | In what ways are the temperatures and the rainfall better suited for the successful growth of grass rather than for cash crops of wheat ? |
| 21 | There were twenty of them , creating a hubbub , looking for the prosaic detail of construction rather than letting themselves be beguiled by the beauty of the creation . |
| 22 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 23 | It could be the sour smell of misfortune rather than the suspicion that he does n't know what he really wants which could mock the prediction that here is the next Conservative Prime Minister but one . ’ |
| 24 | And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York . |
| 25 | What if Everett 's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner ? |
| 26 | In the view of general manager Alan Sinclair , most agents in Britain lean too heavily towards the mass marketing of packages rather than providing a proper travel service . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | She also recognized Chiang 's Nationalist government in Formosa ( Taiwan ) as the legitimate government of China rather than the Communist regime at Peking . |
| 29 | Unskilled is also used to imply a low level of skill rather than its absence . |
| 30 | Secondly , it is better to focus on a specific cause of concern rather than a sense of general discontent . |