Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 3 | It 's a more importantly to make sure it 's normal rather than to look for a problem with it but Now you 're not trying to escape , are you Jade ? |
| 4 | Consequently , weathering profiles are rarely in full equilibrium with environmental conditions ; in most cases the weathering mantle adjusts to long-term average conditions rather than to conditions at a specific time . |
| 5 | Accordingly , if anomalies appear in the results , this is attributed to defects in the experiment rather than to wilfulness on the part of the animals under investigation . |
| 6 | The coverage of industrial relations , merger consequences , redundancies , equal opportunity legislation , and so on is designed to make the reader aware of issues , and the implications of modern legislation , rather than to act as a manual of practice or standard work of reference . |
| 7 | This is largely due to the increase in the numbers of those over pension age during this period , rather than to changes in the propensity to live separate lives . |
| 8 | He concludes that high relief was essentially a response to high food prices rather than to perception of a chronic employment problem . |
| 9 | ‘ A number of changes have been made to reduce practices that cause irritating stoppages rather than to speed up the game . |
| 10 | Incongruities and idiosyncrasies were seen as strengths not as weaknesses , as indicators of a capacity for quiet change rather than as evidence of a tendency towards obfuscation . |
| 11 | If proven that it constitutes Treasure Trove ( i.e. it was buried with the intention of later removal , rather than as part of a funerary burial ) , it is most likely to be retained by the Crown for the British Museum and the finder paid a sum equal to the market value of what is retained . |
| 12 | ‘ DBS was planned in terms of an economic competition with other European or American projects rather than as part of a communications policy : the problem was approached with a concern with the conduits not with the programmes , with the technologies involved , not with the services . |
| 13 | Equally , local training events for church musicians or workshops in the use of ‘ renewal music ’ are likely to receive their support from people who have an interest in them , rather than as part of a co-ordinated pattern of training for parish organists or directors of music . |
| 14 | When pupils return to school from the Delphi unit it is because the pupils themselves wish to ( in Roger 's words ‘ the problem solves itself ’ ) or because the staff are anxious to ‘ relieve the pressure ’ in the unit rather than as part of a scheduled policy of reintegration . |
| 15 | On the contrary , features and limbs are perceived in isolation without relation , as fragments rather than as part of a totality . |
| 16 | The fact of class conflict is not denied , but is seen as only one of several sources of conflict within society ; and perhaps most crucially of all , the stratificationalist approach to class is unlike the Marxist approach in that it is used in a fairly ad hoc way as an analytic tool , rather than as part of an integrated sociohistorical theory . |
| 17 | Some changes in practice , and in ways of delivering services , did take place , but usually as the result of initiatives by individual social workers or managers rather than as part of an overall department plan . |
| 18 | In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong . |
| 19 | We consider that tribunals should properly be regarded as machinery provided by Parliament for adjudication rather than as part of the machinery for administration . |
| 20 | In such definitions , ‘ race ’ is still conceived as a false representation of reality rather than as part of the process of constructing an operative symbolic and social reality : literally , a common sense . |
| 21 | Well I I do think that varies and I think there is some excellent practice in many schools with teachers who are both very good at doing this sort of thing and put great value by it erm perhaps in their individual style , rather than as part of the curriculum erm but certainly there does seem to be a lack of awareness , and certainly where it comes to providing the funding for that , to bring into the school curriculum the sort of understanding about human development and erm aspects of emotional life which affect all of us throughout our life experience and affect our ability to perhaps erm enter into erm adult life with the sort of confidence and erm capacity for developing our potential that we would like all of our coming generation to be able to have . |
| 22 | The emphasis is ours , bewildered by the way in which the Times adduces such facts as evidence of how ‘ people from a humble background ’ can progress in modern Britain , rather than as proof of the persistent importance of inheritance and class . |
| 23 | The mark-up acts in this respect like an excise tax T x , and the fact that the monopoly profit accrues to entrepreneurs , rather than as revenue to the government , does not make any difference in view of the assumption about the demand side . |
| 24 | Indeed it is now uncontroversial to talk of texts as a ‘ polysemic potential of meaning ’ rather than as carriers of a single message . |
| 25 | Traditionally , and to simplify the drafting of the warranties , these exceptions are contained in the disclosure letter generated by the vendor , or its lawyer on its behalf , rather than as amendments to the warranties . |
| 26 | Mr Ashdown has always been careful to stress his belief that the revival of the party would require at least two general elections and his campaign was based on the need for long-term growth rather than on hope in the statistical quirk of a hung parliament . |
| 27 | The emphasis in functionalist sociology is therefore on the values shared within and between classes , rather than on conflict as the basis of class structure . |
| 28 | So in this sense the approach is a pragmatic one , which bears on the here and now rather than on eternity.i At the same time , to formulate the problem in terms of interests , as I have done , is to focus attention on the moral priorities embedded in holism and individualism . |
| 29 | The party considerations , in this as in so many other aspects of local government reorganisation , seemed to have been based more on an assessment of the past rather than on considerations for the future . |
| 30 | They are atypical in that the approach adopted focuses on social and historical aspects of language and language-use rather than on language as a set of abstract forms . |