Example sentences of "and [noun] [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned the picture so that Faye could see it , as well as Belinda and Bill , who had just arrived , briefcase in hand and shirt collar rather tired-looking after his long day . |
| 2 | Made with the full support of the Pentagon , Wings Of The Apache is a standard-issue Top Gun recruiting movie which features helicopters rather than jets and drug barons rather than Reds , but keeps the gung-ho militarism and the aerial camera acrobatics . |
| 3 | To get maximum benefit in making your diet easy , speedy and healthy , obtain your dietary fibre from a wide range of cereal , fruit and vegetable foods rather than seeking to make up the total from just one or two very fibre-rich foods . |
| 4 | Gwynne suggests that this aspect has been neglected by researchers , who have concentrated on street pedlars and garbage pickers rather than the small-scale manufacturing sector , which does have the potential for growth ( Gwynne 1985 ) . |
| 5 | It would find few backers among politicians worried about jobs and living standards rather than market share . |
| 6 | Opinion polls suggest that , as in Britain as a whole , it is the economy , employment and living standards rather than strong nationalist feelings that are the key factors likely to decide the outcome of the Election . |
| 7 | I find Dr. Proudie and some of the characters such as Mr. Harding and Eleanor Bold rather pathetic and not worthy of sympathy — I do not know whether these are the sentiments Trollope hoped to arouse , but though I obviously dislike Mrs. Proudie as we are supposed to , I find that I can admire her and sympathise with her for having the bad luck to be surrounded by such people . |
| 8 | Using the actual values of S T and R M rather than their expectations assumes that these expectations are unbiased and that , on average , the actual values are equal to their expected values . |
| 9 | Premature and difficult parturition are associated with a variety of disorders in child development , including some psychological and emotional disorders ; however , it must be recognised that pre-natal factors or others may have dual effect on both labour and child development rather than a causative effect from one to another . |
| 10 | Such prevention includes : educational approaches concerned mainly with child sexual abuse ; programmes targeted at adults and the community which focus on developing appropriate child care and thus lessening the possibility of neglect , emotional abuse , and potential loss of parental control resulting in over-chastisement ; services using volunteers and parent aides rather than professionally trained staff ; antenatal and postnatal services ; and finally other programmes aimed at children older than infants . |
| 11 | Is n't it a far better use of public money to create training and job creation rather than to buy a prime site with public money ? |
| 12 | Publisher 's themed series now account for a significant part of the market , but are too many thought up by designers and marketing departments rather than horticulturalists ? |
| 13 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |
| 14 | the very existence of any examination at 16+ ( whether GCE , CSE or a unified examination or examination system ) as opposed to a series of assessments at the right stage of development for the individual pupil is questionable because firstly sixteen has already ceased to be the date for leaving education for the majority of pupils , secondly employers look increasingly to school recommendations , college course experience , and examination expectations rather than evidence of ‘ O ’ Level/CSE achievements , and thirdly the Universities and Higher Education look for and stipulate ‘ A ’ Level achievements rather than ‘ O ’ Level evidence . |
| 15 | This is true of every theory of criminal behaviour which is discussed in the textbooks today , even though the explanation is in terms of social and group factors rather than in terms of biological factors … . |
| 16 | It might well be more prudent to think of climatic influences on forms and erosion rates rather than climatically dominated landforms . |
| 17 | With agency workers the situation is reversed : manufacturing establishments are rather more likely than average and service establishments rather less likely than average to use them . |
| 18 | One of the standard questions of public finance theory is why redistribution is made to recipients via price subsidies and in-kind transfers rather than through cash transfers . |
| 19 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,166 ) represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 20 | The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 21 | For a reason that will become apparent in the next section , it is usual to specify Bénard convection in terms of the Rayleigh number and Prandtl number rather than the Grashof number Gr and Prandtl number . |
| 22 | Instead of packages , it is more likely that options based on a central processor and visual display unit will be offered , to enable buyers to spend more on input and output devices rather than on storage and printing facilities . |
| 23 | I mean I , I enquired why it went to the District Council Environment and Planning Committee rather than the Coastal Planning Committee and the one reason I was told was speed , they could get the thing brought up there that much more quickly . |
| 24 | Despite much popular resentment at the effects of cash restraints on public services , the government 's continuing popularity largely rested on its claim to have been the architect of new prosperity , based on finance , credit , and consumer pump-priming rather than on mass manufacturing industry as in the past . |
| 25 | These include the ‘ legacy of the British ’ , who promoted an overtly punitive penal philosophy , more concerned with the repression of dissent than with ordinary crime , and who ran the prisons as cheaply as possible ; a labyrinthine criminal justice system , which causes many accused persons to spend years in gaol before their trial is completed ; widespread political interference with the police , whereby criminals with ‘ connections ’ often escape justice , leaving the gaols populated predominantly with poor rural labourers ; the designation of prisons , under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution , as primarily the responsibility of the thirty-one individual states and union territories rather than the Indian government — which has perpetuated gross differences in practices and standards ; and the generally low priority attached to ‘ non-productive ’ areas like penal reform in a country with 250 million people below the poverty line , where economic development dominates planning and expenditure . |
| 26 | The author 's conjecture is that in the near future the best selling products on world markets will be automated design , testing and manufacturing systems rather than goods produced by such systems . |
| 27 | However , some excellent studies were done at this time , many using fieldwork techniques and participant observation rather than surveys . |
| 28 | However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure . |
| 29 | If we took the HIDB as an example of an institution whose remit is to promote the dominant ( i.e. governmental ) ideology then it is likely that it will promote economic development and growth policy rather than traditional ideas or social development . |
| 30 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |