Example sentences of "rather [conj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of , rather than despite its fame , it has been subjected to a prolonged critical attention ( Clinard 1964 ; Lemert 1967 ; Taylor , Walton , and Young 1973 ; Thio 1975 ) . |
| 2 | Hence thinking tended to be directed towards minimizing both poverty and associated problems , such as those of economic growth and public order , rather than towards its elimination . |
| 3 | But Daniel Sumner , UK product marketing manager says that Office is actually moving away from the applet approach rather than towards it . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century . |
| 5 | The temptation to park on top of them rather than beside them was overwhelming , but then jacked-up pick-ups do that to you . |
| 6 | Sit opposite the other person ( rather than beside them ) . |
| 7 | Top cyclists ride over hills rather than up them , the gradients scarcely affecting their rhythm , the gears helping to keep the pedalling rate more or less constant . |
| 8 | With a Newtonian reflector , therefore , the observer looks into the tube rather than up it , so that for pointing to a planet or a star it is usually helpful to have a small refracting telescope mounted on to the side of the tube to act as a finder . |
| 9 | Women appeared to have move down the scale in men 's esteem , rather than up it . |
| 10 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 11 | Both sides described the meeting in early December as ‘ constructive ’ and Cairns Boston , managing director of Land 's End , added he was confident that ‘ climbers who come to Land 's End can continue to enjoy their visits along with the enhancement of the environment rather than to its detriment , and as safely as possible . ’ |
| 12 | A cash placing is one in which the subscription offer is made to investment clients of the purchaser 's merchant bank or broker rather than to its existing shareholders . |
| 13 | Having taken the orders and observed the quality of the breakfast on offer to members , Amiss was relieved that Colonel Fagg had been allocated to Elsa rather than to him . |
| 14 | ‘ I hate it when people talk about me rather than to me . |
| 15 | I think that it was advice to BT , rather than to me . |
| 16 | She was still talking about me rather than to me , so in a way I was glad I had n't used any of my real names . |
| 17 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 18 | The genealogical trigger determining the numbers involved , the extensiveness of the quarrel , is thus the branching of the tree through brotherhood : by tracing the extent of obligation to two brothers ( rather than to their father ) each disputant secures the maximum of supporters who owe him loyalty and who do not in that particular instance owe loyalty to the other side . |
| 19 | Writing from a similar perspective , Collins attributes the higher salaries of the more educated employees to the certification process rather than to their higher productivity , i.e. , the increasing tendency by employers to select and promote employees according to the education credentials they hold . |
| 20 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 21 | Their allegiance was thus to the king , who had appointed them and was the source of their power , and to their followers , for whom they sought offices , titles and pensions , rather than to their colleagues or to any leader amongst them . |
| 22 | The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research . |
| 23 | The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research . |
| 24 | The real objection to the United States was in relation to US activities abroad rather than to their financing . |
| 25 | He smiled to himself rather than to her , the mark of a shy man who was intermittently confident with women , she hoped , rather than the smile also of someone who enjoyed cheating on his expenses . |
| 26 | ‘ Something about you suggests you 've never been deeply involved in a relationship , ’ he mused , seeming almost to be speaking to himself rather than to her . |
| 27 | And if the river spoke to his dreaming , rather than to his daytime sell , he supposed that he had no business to attend to it . |
| 28 | Although schools like St Bartholomew 's in London have succeeded in introducing innovative curricula , this is often attributed to the personal skills of the dean and local enthusiasm rather than to anything more generalisable . |
| 29 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |
| 30 | Providing an assurance to parents that children are not only well fed but properly supervised during the mid-day break adds to the appeal of a school and could well be the deciding factor which finally influences parental choice in sending their child to your school rather than to your neighbour 's . |