Example sentences of "rather [conj] [being] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expenditure patterns should relate to outputs rather than being characterised by a list of resource inputs . |
| 2 | Farm drainage ditches ensure that water runs directly into streams rather than being filtered through the soil . |
| 3 | The poor internal self-image is reflected outwards onto other people and onto external circumstances rather than being recognised as the diseased part of self . |
| 4 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 5 | Rather than being selected for our speciality , which also extends to French naturalism and British art generally at the turn of the century , I believe it has more to do with our publishing scholarly catalogues over the years and with our track record as dealers . |
| 6 | He was therefore more than at home in French culture , he was an important participant in its development , assimilating it ( as he reputedly said ) rather than being assimilated by it . |
| 7 | They were sometimes denied the authority necessary for the fulfilment of their expected role , and it was critically important that they were seen as part of a school 's management team rather than being relegated to the position of mere facilitator . |
| 8 | You become a detective in the woods , rather than being led around them . |
| 9 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 10 | Behaviour is observed in its natural setting , and it is possible to make a study of social process , rather than being limited to the snapshot or series of snapshots of the survey researcher . |
| 11 | This may be one reason why sign language has come to be regarded as a special need in itself rather than being aligned with other home languages , which would exempt deaf children from the legislation of the Education Act 1981 . |
| 12 | The briefing pack accompanying Working for patients ( DoH , 1989h ) claims that at ‘ Regional and district level planning will be able to respond more effectively to the health needs of the population rather than being tied to details of the operational delivery of services ’ . |
| 13 | Yes erm , we 've actually linked with a firm of independent mortgage brokers erm so rather than being tied to a particular building society as most estate agents are erm what they will do is they 'll shop around and tell you which lenders are offering the best terms and particularly good schemes at any one time erm , it 's literally free information they simply phone you up and say get some idea of what your salary is and what your requirements are and then they 'll send through some information for you . |
| 14 | So what we 've got to do is try and filter out that so that the incidents go straight through to the incident rooms , rather than being queued behind everybody who just wants to speak to the caretaker , to talk about the hinges that 's just normally . |
| 15 | With no soil fauna , organic material tends to lie on the surface rather than being incorporated into the sand . |
| 16 | Apart from the use of quarterly data , the main difference in this study is that the current monetary shock is included in the output equation rather than being incorporated in the error term , in what — ADD demonstrate — is an asymptotically efficient estimation procedure . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the procedure adopted in truancy cases should , rather than being geared towards punishment of parents , be a constructive process , involving parent and child . |
| 18 | We have then no reason to be surprised if the distinction between ascription and association in adjectives is overlooked or mistakenly supposed to be a matter of " nuances of meaning " , rather than being recognized as a systematic variation . |
| 19 | Rather than being rewarded by the social security system , that home owner suffered a disadvantage . |
| 20 | Some environmental groups maintaining that the birds should be left to their own devices rather than being raised in captivity . |
| 21 | He believed , for example , that Christ had been conceived in the normal way and then sanctified by God rather than being born of a virgin . |
| 22 | The chief mourner continued to wear a coat with train , together with the mourning hood , but even the manner of wearing the hood changed : draped round the shoulders like a short scarf rather than being worn over the head . |
| 23 | Physiologically this channel though , rather than being activated by inositol one four five trisphosphate this channel is probably primarily activated by voltage by in other words by membrane depolarization . |
| 24 | The stigma of disqualification tends to linger on well past the point where offenders have served their official punishment , and they often continue to be excluded from law-abiding society rather than being reintegrated into it . |
| 25 | The pituitary gland is one of the endocrine glands also known as ductless glands , since the materials which they produce pass directly into the bloodstream rather than being channelled to specific parts of the body . |
| 26 | I was also delighted that at last there had been an acknowledgement of the fact that I had a role in what was happening rather than being seen as a bystander in an event that would , all being well , change our lives beyond recognition . |
| 27 | Aware that absolute holists can not live up to their own tenets , they offer a different distinction between the two approaches so that , rather than being seen as strict alternatives , they are held to be complementary . |
| 28 | Rather than being seen as partners in the search for a solution parents may be seen as part of the problem ( Moses and Croll 1987 , Wood 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Transition through training is shown to be a process in which vulnerable young people are stratified into the slots allotted to them rather than being engaged in real decision-making about future choices . |
| 30 | Fears revolved more around the fact that potential conflict situations were being compounded rather than being created by conglomerates , and that these conflicts would be increasingly and more easily abused . |