Example sentences of "rather [conj] just [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 2 | You 're doing all the right things but it may be that the source of the irritation is from within your vagina rather than just on the outer labia . |
| 3 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 4 | You need to stand back from what you write and explicitly present it to your reader , commenting directly on its organisation , rather than just on the ideas it contains . |
| 5 | It was because they had been rich and important for so long , generation after generation , rather than just since the invention of the power loom and the spinning frame , like her John-William . |
| 6 | And I think most women would prefer it the romantic way , rather than just in the kitchen , over the sink or whatever , like in Fatal Attraction , says a married 27-year-old estate agent . |
| 7 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 8 | Now if we 're going to try and eliminate the prob the sort of problems , then really we 've got to think of on an international regulatory basis , rather than just in the U K. |