Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] rather [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 2 | The government also allocated housing to the districts rather than to the regions . |
| 3 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 4 | Yet , having done this , it should pay particular attention to the emotions rather than to the ‘ facts ’ , or the rationalizations and justifications we all tend to use in order to shroud our feelings , especially in times of stress . |
| 5 | And recently , in education , we have David Hargreaves ( 1982 ) pointing out the harm done in schools when the balance of attention is given to the individuals rather than to the group — and this from a non-authoritarian , liberal educationalist . |
| 6 | It was a situation whose benefits went largely to the richer tenant-farmers and the landowners rather than to the ordinary yeoman or labourer . |