Example sentences of "[vb base] rather [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although iridology is used primarily as a means of detecting problems before other symptoms appear rather than as a way of treating those problems , many iridologists are also herbalists or homoeopaths and can go on to work towards effecting a cure . |
| 2 | Services have thus frequently emphasized the need for custody , punishment and control rather than for rehabilitation and reintegration . |
| 3 | All of which implies strongly that concentration in UK manufacturing industry was prompted by the rewards to be gained from ownership and control rather than from increased scale of production [ Aaronovitch and Sawyer , 1975 ] . |
| 4 | The actual configuration taken up in a solvent , in the liquid or in the solid , will , however , depend upon the sum total of all the interactions whether intrachain or interchain rather than upon the nearest neighbours only . |
| 5 | Finally , Grandpère dom Engels quite misses the point that my ironical description of these remorselessly improving adverts as ‘ quaintly old-fashioned ’ refers to their depressingly dated feel rather than to any seductive aura of nostalgia . |
| 6 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 7 | May we reserve our admiration for the qualities people have rather than for what they own . |