Example sentences of "rather [conj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they tended to go wrong was at the micro rather than at the macro level : a mishandling of the relationship between parts rather than the parts themselves . |
| 2 | This will reduce Target 's profits that are subject to corporation tax to £100 , providing Target with an economic benefit of £33 ( assuming that it pays corporation tax at the full rate rather than at the small company 's rate under s13 ) . |
| 3 | However , the NCOAP directed the greater part of its invective at the moral issue , rather than at the prior financial one . |
| 4 | As a result , business was dictated by local tastes and tended to be conducted in the closing stages of the fair rather than at the private view , which used to be marked by dealers trading among themselves . |
| 5 | The difficulty here in handling the ( a ) variable following Labov 's model ( which assumes an underlying structural identity ) is that the ( a ) systems in RP and in Scottish English are embedded in structurally different phonologies ; as a consequence the range of realizations in Glasgow does not correspond in any simple way to the range in RP , where there is a distinction at the phonemic level between front and back / a / rather than at the subphonemic level as in Glasgow . |
| 6 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |