Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 2 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 3 | The absence of a significant difference in LTA recurrence rates , however , may represent a type II error due to inadequate numbers towards the end of the study , rather than to a lack of effect . |
| 4 | However in my written statement , I have suggested that certain of the criteria are going to be more appropriate to a local plan rather than to a structure plan . |
| 5 | This can be seen in the attitude adopted towards Nissan , Toyota and Honda , although the ‘ national solution approach ’ prevailed in the sale of Rover to British Aerospace rather than to a US multinational . |
| 6 | And if skills associated with the new technology are specific to a particular occupation rather than to a firm , why should either employer or employee prefer a long-term contract with one employer rather than a consultancy contract for a particular piece of work ? |
| 7 | Yes , she would go into the country rather than to a seaside resort , for they were full of old , retired , ill-tempered people and had she not had her full share of that ? |
| 8 | The contractor is obviously more likely to offer them to someone he knows and likes rather than to a stranger . |
| 9 | Fifteen years later , it became obvious that Lord Sagramoso was seducing the hereditary lords of neighbouring star systems — mainly agricultural ones — to turn preachers into compost and swear fealty to him rather than to a deity thirty thousand light years distant . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's why her style is better suited to a Policy Unit that is hers rather than to a CPRS which serves the Cabinet . ’ |
| 11 | If this is so , then the directors of a company would continue to be accountable to a share price rather than to a body of committed stakeholders . |
| 12 | For the first time since Hugh Schonfield 's Passover Plot in 1963 , certain questions pertaining to the New Testament , to Jesus and to the origins of Christianity , were raised to the general reading public — to the so-called ‘ mass market ’ , rather than to a cadre of academic specialists and theologians . |
| 13 | Are there disadvantages in sharing income to benefit from allowance , rather than for a wife to claim a refund of tax paid on interest or dividends when her income is insufficient to take advantage of the allowances in full ? |
| 14 | We argued in this chapter for an interactive model of these two kinds of processing rather than for a model in which syntactic and semantic analyses are carried out independently . |
| 15 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 16 | Deductive markers provide a linguistic means of signalling the deductive/empirical distinction : they signal that what follows should be interpreted as a conclusion rather than as a description of an event/state . |
| 17 | Equally , support should come not only from one 's immediate boss , who should be seen as a resource , rather than as a boss . |
| 18 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 19 | It is normally unlined and made as one short curtain rather than as a pair . |
| 20 | The Squirrel was one of the first light turbine helicopters designed primarily for civil operation rather than as a modification of a design intended for military use . |
| 21 | He suggests that they were worn for display only , rather than as a dress-fastening , being heavily abraded from contact with coarse outer clothing . |
| 22 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 23 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 24 | Stop time minus Start time but then this needs to be expressed in hours — rather than as a fraction of a day . |
| 25 | In fact , the ‘ aesthetic ’ is discussed on the course , but as a problematic rather than as a response to literature . |
| 26 | The deferential tone , and the fact that it 's couched as a letter rather than as a minute , suggest that it was directed to someone outside the Civil Service . |
| 27 | He sees the slump as an opportunity for natural selection — and corporate evolution — rather than as a problem with the economy . |
| 28 | The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments . |
| 29 | By contrast , however , a broadly conceived information skills course was presented as essential for topic work rather than as a facilitator of the separate work of subject departments . |
| 30 | each of these two components was published serially rather than as a whole . |