Example sentences of "rather [conj] [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis is on opening and closing legs rather than a bend and straightening of the legs . |
| 2 | A game environment may turn into a guessing sequence rather than a session that encourages logical reasoning , as illustrated in the example given above . |
| 3 | Is the course a paternalistic idea which Christian Aid is pushing , rather than a proposal that arises from the needs of partners ? |
| 4 | He found one that took money rather than a card and dialled a number . |
| 5 | Is increasing industrial concentration an obstacle rather than an opportunity as regards this socialist objective ? |
| 6 | Our ‘ Marilyn Monroe ’ schema is more likely to include fingernails than the kind you knock into walls , and our ‘ king schema ’ will contain seals for stamping wax rather than the kind that eat fish . |
| 7 | Rather than the ones that try and pull your ears |
| 8 | Notice that in the third tone-unit , since it is the tonic syllable rather than the word that carries the tone , it is necessary to divide the word ‘ forest ’ into two parts , ‘ fo ’ and ‘ rest ’ ( it could be argued that the syllables should be divided ‘ for ’ and ‘ est ’ , but this is not important here ) . |
| 9 | A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed . |
| 10 | Such was the enthusiasm generated by the initial successes with the organochlorine insecticides like DDT , BHC and dieldrin that most of the malarious nations of the world , excepting those in tropical Africa , gladly joined in the eradication programme that the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) began in the late 1950s ; a programme aimed at eradication of the disease rather than the mosquitoes that carried it . |
| 11 | One brave man grabbed a Lewis gun and , to save time , set it up on a rubbish bin rather than the tripod and fired away . |
| 12 | But his suggestion that the ‘ brushes ’ of electrical machines should be made of carbon , rather than the wire or gauze originally used , proved outstandingly successful . |
| 13 | But it is not : it is the differences rather than the similarities that call into question Treasury projections , in particular the effect of high real interest rates . |
| 14 | Even his overseas expansion was prescribed by rational identification of opportunity rather than the quasi-imperialism that typified much of the ambition in the UK advertising agency sector . |
| 15 | There is in sociolinguistics an implicit assumption that where women 's speech differs from men 's , it is the behaviour of the women rather than the men that requires explanation ; men are the norm from which women deviate . |
| 16 | A sound that more than anything else is rooted in the excitement of the live arena rather than the cut 'n' mix ethics of the studio . |
| 17 | A sound that more than anything else is rooted in the excitement of the live arena rather than the cut 'n' mix ethics of the studio . |
| 18 | Bradford City Council gave the quarry owner permission for a much lower generator on a " less visually intrusive " pylon , rather than the tower that has been erected . |
| 19 | ‘ That is not to say that the squirearchy is extinct , rather that the squires that survive would not touch politics with a pitchfork . ’ |