Example sentences of "rather [conj] following [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-literary texts used should include persuasive writing , eg advertisements , leader columns from newspapers , campaign literature from pressure groups , and reference books , eg where the subject matter has a logical structure rather than following a chronological order . |
| 2 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 3 | The subtleties of the contest — running off the ball , watching an individual contest between two players rather than following the ball around through the camera lens — may be sacrificed but these failings have not deterred the audience . |
| 4 | According to PS , a settlor can establish a trust by addressing the intended beneficiary rather than following the normal course of addressing the trustee . |
| 5 | Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) . |
| 6 | In an effort to keep it in Fort Worth the museum agreed to allow time for a public subscription rather than following the normal procedure of consigning it to an auction house . |
| 7 | UNISYS IS JUST SO HAPPY THAT IT SETTLED FOR INTEL 's $5,000m CHIP RATHER THAN FOLLOWING THE HERD TO RISC … |
| 8 | Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left . |
| 9 | Help for problems in relationships comes from recognising that one needs to learn to go through the pain of disillusion , that follows initial idealisation , in order to reach the enlightenment of a mutually respectful lasting relationship , rather than following the repeated pattern of giving up and then renewing the search for a fresh " ideal " . |
| 10 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 11 | A staunch opponent of the European Community and Scottish devolution , he was often described as an independently minded MP who remained untamed by the whips , voting according to his conviction rather than following the party line on a number of issues . |
| 12 | We feel that Christian Aid , as an organisation , be well served by a more pioneering approach rather than following the dictates of the market economy in this matter . |
| 13 | The Faculty 's mathematics courses will appeal , however , to those who , rather than following an orthodox mathematics course , want to apply mathematical and statistical methods in a vocationally relevant way to real industrial , commercial and other problems . ) |