Example sentences of "is [art] [adj] [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place the guarantee afforded liberty in Dicey 's scheme is a negative rather than a positive one . |
| 2 | Importantly , quality costing is a collaborative rather than a competitive process in which the participants in the transaction share a common analytical framework , exchange information and recognize their mutual inter-dependence with the overall company strategy . |
| 3 | The ‘ figural ’ in contradistinction : ( 1 ) is a visual rather than a literary sensibility ; ( 2 ) devalues formalisms and juxtaposes signifiers taken from the banalities of everyday life ; ( 3 ) contests rationalist and/or ‘ didactic ’ views of culture ; ( 4 ) asks not what a cultural text ‘ means ’ , but what it ‘ does ’ ; ( 5 ) in Freudian terms , advocates the extension of the primary process into the cultural realm ; ( 6 ) operates through the spectator 's immersion , the relatively unmediated investment of his/her desire in the cultural object . |
| 4 | The same is not true in Chinese or Japanese , where number is a lexical rather than a grammatical category . |
| 5 | In most European languages today , dual is a lexical rather than a grammatical category ; it can only be indicated by the use of a numeral . |
| 6 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 7 | In the case of the former , it is a traditional rather than a vocational education which is required , and as to the latter , the evidence suggests that employers are really indifferent to their education . |
| 8 | A teacher can not hope to function as a normal communicative support system in most classroom interaction since it is a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one situation . |
| 9 | The recognition of blocks within ageing counsellees is therefore an important skill , but like so many others in counselling it is a perceptual rather than a concrete skill . |
| 10 | Literary English is a beautiful rather than a definitive language . |
| 11 | They insist over and over again that women 's supportiveness , for example , is a positive rather than a negative attribute . |
| 12 | Gravitational separation of helium from hydrogen is a self-regulating rather than an unstable process : the higher the temperature the greater the miscibility of helium and planetary temperatures increase towards the centre . |
| 13 | From this viewpoint , stratification is a divisive rather than an integrating force . |
| 14 | Political leadership is a co-operative rather than an exploitive activity . |
| 15 | Fundamentally , it is a social rather than a psychological variable , its main purpose being to enable the researcher to compare individuals in such a way as to focus on differences between them with respect to degree of integration into a set of relationships which constitute a group capable of exerting normative pressure . |
| 16 | ( This distance function is a pseudo-metric rather than a metric , because there are different species with identical values for these four properties . |
| 17 | Obviously , in terms of calories you can afford to drink a greater quantity of alcohol if it is an occasional rather than a daily indulgence . |