Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | more concerned with the promo–on of health rather than the cure of ill-health . |
| 2 | Approaching the board from side-on rather than from the rear quarter . |
| 3 | We have had debates on the entrenchment of rights ; on federalism or regional devolution as against the unitary state ; on the case for consensus rather than majority as a basis for government , on the relative weight of national versus local mandates and the independence of local government , on the duty of civil servants ; on electoral reform with all its implications for the operations of government ; on who should define the national interest ; on open government and official secrecy ; on complementing representative democracy by referenda and other forms of participation — and much else . |
| 4 | Roosevelt correctly saw the verdict of the election as reform rather than revolution . |
| 5 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 6 | And finally , that our model provides a powerful took in identifying those patients for whom conventional treatment will be unsuccessful and other haemostatic procedures be considered in new controlled therapeutic trials such as injection of the varices with cyanoacrylate rather than with polidocanol , staple transection of the oesophagus , or endoscopic variceal ligation . |
| 7 | GEC Marconi , which employs 3,500 people in Simon Burns ' Chelmsford constituency , signs contracts with the Ministry of Defence rather than Swan Hunter . |
| 8 | On June 5 Martens announced further details of the reforms which were to include : ( i ) the demilitarization of the gendarmerie which would in future report to the Ministry of Interior rather than to that of Defence ; ( ii ) a 10-year service limit for senior positions throughout the three branches of the security services ( the communal police , investigative police and the paramilitary gendarmerie ) ; and ( iii ) improved co-operation and co-ordination between the security services and town councils . |
| 9 | In Three Coins in the Fountain ( 1954 ) , the Roman backgrounds are the whole point of the story , not just for the audience but also for the Romanian-born director Jean Negulesco ( Romanian is the only Latin language of Eastern Europe ) and , most important , for the three American girls ( Dorothy McGuire , Jean Peters , and Maggie McNamara ) who throw coins in the massively theatrical Trevi fountain in the hope of romance rather than simply of returning to Rome — which , indeed , gave its very name to romance . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly , part of the reason that this decision has attracted so much comment is that it was a rather " un-Gaullist " one : for once , the General took the route of facilité rather than that of inflexibilité . |
| 11 | Diane Miles , marketing manager of Lancôme , identifies the shift as taking place at the level of presentation rather than formulation : ‘ There are very positive signs that consumers are becoming bored and frustrated by claims for anti-ageing creams which are couched in over-technical language . |
| 12 | Competition is essential to this proposal , since the effect of incentives on a monopoly would be to reduce the level of supply rather then costs . |
| 13 | On the level of fact rather than speculation , many schools have experienced or are experiencing the stresses of amalgamations of various sorts , both whole school and for instance in the creation of sixth form consortia . |
| 14 | It is more likely that such a talent lay in site administration and the guidance of taste rather than in any practical work as craftsman , architect , or mason . |
| 15 | One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists . |
| 16 | They believed that , instead of conferring greater powers on provincial governors , the regime should create an additional network of provincial administrators who would owe their allegiance to the tsar and whose prime purpose would be the maintenance of order rather than the fostering of local initiative . |
| 17 | Greenpeace , however , argues that the priority must be the closure of nuclear power stations , not coal mines , implying an increase in the burning of coal rather than a decrease . |
| 18 | Everything added together puts Mills very much on the side of guilt rather than innocence . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps this is because his problem is not a sociological one ; he is engaged in polemic rather than social theory and his work is built around an apocalyptic vision of the future of capitalism rather than a series of questions about social phenomena . |
| 20 | Attention focused initially upon improving the condition of potential rather than actual members of the labour force and the armed services ; on proposals and measures to diminish the infant mortality rate and to ensure that the surviving children grew up well fed and well cared for . |
| 21 | But none of the above-mentioned theorists works this logic through in terms of the male-female relationship and the respective relation to language of men and women ; this is accomplished by Irigaray and Kristeva whose writings are interpolated into the novel , like the quotation from Shakespeare in Between , as the agent of parody rather than as its object . |
| 22 | Firstly , in the case of preferential treatment , s239 relates to transactions within two years before the onset of solvency rather than six months and the vendor is presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer creditors unless the contrary is shown . |
| 23 | She argues that autonomy should not be seen as a psychological capacity , but as a social one , depending on public acknowledgement , and that this acknowledgement arises from the recognition of responsibility rather than of rationality . |
| 24 | In this situation production responds to the demands of marketing rather than the other way round . |
| 25 | It is the fear of exclusion rather than the positive desire to be included that is driving these countries to apply for EC membership . |
| 26 | This also helps the printers with the positioning if you are supplying the images as artwork rather than treating them electronically . |
| 27 | The assessment tools of most professionals concentrate on the degree of impairment rather than the degree of potential . |
| 28 | As a result , sex became a crucial target of power organised around the management of life rather than the sovereign threat of death . |
| 29 | Structuralism ends up in passivity , although sometimes more the passivity of despair rather than acceptance … . |
| 30 | Secondly , even though static analysis of the sort featured in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 may point to the stimulating effect of price reductions , dynamic considerations such as the effects of bankruptcy and default during the process of price deflation may serve to tighten the grip of recession rather than loosen it . |