Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 've seen you play , you seem to regard the fretboard from a horizontal point of view , playing along the strings rather than across the fretboard … |
| 2 | One other peculiarity she shared with the four Atlantic states : she had great extra-European interests , though they lay across land frontiers in Asia rather than across the sea . |
| 3 | The system also resulted in chants and songs being directed sideways to the rival fans , rather than across the pitch to the other end . |
| 4 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 5 | Lowden bridges are unusual in two respects : the saddles are split into two sections for optimum intonation on wound and unwound strings , and the strings mount through from the back of the bridge rather than via the old bridge-pin method , which would mean a longer string-changing time . |
| 6 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 7 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 8 | Thus , the UK was still a European leader in innovation in the 1950s and 1960s , but perhaps had a bias towards pure science rather than towards the commercial development of technological ideas that will form the next generation of industries . |
| 9 | The direction in which the discussion of literature in the Introduction to the Man of Law 's Tale points , however , is towards a comparison of Chaucer 's writing with that of his contemporary John Gower rather than towards the survey of literary genres detached from the accidental circumstances of the identity of authors of specific examples of those genres that we find in fragment VII . |
| 10 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 11 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 12 | The family in early times for Marx belongs to the private domain , rather than to the public and political . |
| 13 | The Labour Opposition wins , possibly the Liberal-Democrats too if disaffected Tories drift their way rather than to the Greens . |
| 14 | This is why the Campaign for Quality Television is calling for the money bid in the auction to go into programmes , rather than to the Treasury . |
| 15 | dolphins show marked development of those parts of the brain responsible for orientation , social skill , emotional self-control and perhaps even humour … . they seem to have responded to social and sexual pressures rather than to the purely physical . |
| 16 | We should not forget , however , that Berkeley 's own commitments are to God rather than to the predetermined demands of some idealized empiricism . |
| 17 | But does n't that mean that most of the European investment will always tend to go to the centrally placed Golden Triangle countries who occupy this privileged position rather than to the United Kingdom and other peripheral countries who are in less favoured areas ? |
| 18 | And recently , in education , we have David Hargreaves ( 1982 ) pointing out the harm done in schools when the balance of attention is given to the individuals rather than to the group — and this from a non-authoritarian , liberal educationalist . |
| 19 | She felt her stroke was due to the fertility drugs she had taken before each pregnancy , rather than to the childbirth itself : for the fifth pregnancy she had received injections of the drugs for the first time . |
| 20 | Strictly speaking , Hesiod refers to a golden race rather than to the golden age of later writers . |
| 21 | If the more extreme versions of the criticism were true , immigrants to a country should exhibit suicide rates similar to that country , rather than to the country they came from ( Sainsbury and Jenkins 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Mahat et al. ( 1986a , b , 1987a , b ) believe that in the Middle Mountain region of Nepal the loss of forest is due mainly to the increased requirements for arable land rather than to the need for fuelwood . |
| 23 | However , most companies saw this growth related to factors such as increasing demand rather than to the enterprise-zone incentives themselves . |
| 24 | The day-to-day running of the school ( within the framework of policies and decisions made by and/or on behalf of the governing body ) is still the responsibility of the headteacher who now ‘ reports ’ to the governing body rather than to the officers of the LEA . |
| 25 | Ironically , as directorates become successful , so there is a greater sense of identification and loyalty to the particular directorate rather than to the hospital unit . |
| 26 | They pointed out that near large towns horses were , in any case , more numerous than cattle , and that diseased cattle would be sent to slaughter rather than to the veterinarian . |
| 27 | We now analyse those aspects of management and control that relate to particular jobs rather than to the practice as a whole . |
| 28 | It is one thing for the Association to demand certain professional standards of its members ( as formulated in the Code of Professional Conduct ) , and to expect them to have loyalty to these rather than to the employer in any dispute , but the professional association itself has to be seen to take a strong stand in support of its membership , or indeed against its membership , if such situations of conflict arise . |
| 29 | It is also possible to argue that less sensitive and reflective young readers might prefer Astrid Lindgren 's Pippi Longstocking stories , or relate to Erica in Jan Mark 's Handles rather than to the solitary Toms , Maxes , and Tollies . |
| 30 | As I understand it , GPs refer patients to individual consultants , usually to the older , more experienced man who may be slowing down , rather than to the younger , inexperienced newcomer who is right up to date with the latest hi-tech mod. con. , but is afforded scant opportunity to increase his experience . |