Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the money was used ( rather typically for the English universities of this period ) to help finance an additional chair of Arabic rather than an increased number of students . |
| 2 | Swod was of the generation that reached for an extra layer of clothing rather than turn the heating on . |
| 3 | This , of course , was not Basil 's intention , and was , like the distortions of Basic Design , due more to an unimaginative application of ideas rather than something intrinsically wrong in the idea itself . |
| 4 | In the US there is a general call for dentists to become more holistic and to see dentistry as an integral part of health rather than treating patients as walking sets of teeth . |
| 5 | To many in the industry , unused to this degree of central policy making and coordination , the luxuriant growth of committees seemed to represent an unholy conspiracy of bureaucracy rather than real organisational requirements . |
| 6 | In many cases , however , it is expressed as an intermittent grumbling of practitioners rather than as a systematic counter-argument . |
| 7 | The attacks , all using an explosive base of fertiliser rather than Semtex , seem designed to prove the IRA 's ability to infiltrate even the most protected areas . |
| 8 | Since the party was dominated by trade unions accepting it meant accepting an intricate network of loyalties rather than accepting socialism : Idealism was in fact rather less necessary , or sustaining , than loyalty within a trade-union dominated Labour Party . |