Example sentences of "rather [conj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birth of sociologie religieuse and the initial contributions of catholic institutions both in Europe and the USA to the founding of departments of sociology are rooted here rather than in the work of the founding fathers of the discipline , though clearly there are links between de Bonald , Maistre , and Durkheim on the nature of social solidarity and the concept of society , and authoritative Roman catholic social theorists . |
| 2 | The Regent Theatre stood halfway down Shaftesbury Avenue towards the Piccadilly end , convenient for the Trocadero or the Criterion for those who like their after-theatre supper served amid gilt and chandeliers rather than in the garlicky hinterland of Soho . |
| 3 | If these information-processing modules exist only in the minds of cognitive scientists , rather than in the minds of the subjects they study , then breakdowns in face recognition or word recognition should either be all-or-none , or else they should be extremely difficult to conceptualize within the vocabulary of cognitive psychology . |
| 4 | The rest of the world drinks mainly lager beers and even in countries such as Belgium where ale-type beers are produced they come to fruition in the bottle rather than in the cask . |
| 5 | A few eels , caught in the sea rather than in the local river ; plenty of mackerel , a chunk of monkfish , and some roach for pike deadbaits . |
| 6 | One such senior said the intention was to allow the probationer to learn from the experience of others ( FN 4/4/87 , p. 6 ) , on the assumption that people learn ‘ on the job ’ rather than in the depot . |
| 7 | After a flight to the east , meetings should take place in the latter half of the daytime rather than in the morning by new local time . |
| 8 | After a flight to the west , meetings should take place in the morning by new local time rather than in the latter part of the day . |
| 9 | Thus the peaks and troughs of the two curves match , illustrating the obvious conclusion that military policy-makers should be seeking ways of increasing the deterrent capabilities of their armed forces in the lower-intensity bands at the right-hand half of the spectrum rather than in the higher-intensity bands at the left-hand end . |
| 10 | I was allowed to work on my own rather than in the production line . |
| 11 | If they seek to ‘ prove ’ the existence of God , it is in the original sense of ‘ test ’ or ‘ try ’ rather than in the modern sense of ‘ demonstrate in such a way as to convey certainty ’ . |
| 12 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 13 | Farming systems research which studies the complex of decision-making by farmers as a whole system implies that the researcher spends time with the farmers rather than in the research station and adapts research needs on the spot — in the farmers ' fields — to ongoing work by the farmers . |
| 14 | It is in the terai where large landlords ( often absent and in Kathmandu on other lucrative , non-agricultural pursuits ) , are well established , rather than in the hills . |
| 15 | Much of the calculation depends upon the choice of discount rate which , it might be added , exists in the mind of the economist ( and rather foggily at that ) rather than in the minds of a couple about to sleep together . |
| 16 | Rather than finally rejecting difference as the central term of critical value , this criticism instead relocates value onto the difference of consumers : it is in consumption rather than in the text that originality and creativity are to be found . |
| 17 | As essential oils occur in nature ( rather than in the laboratory ) , side-effects are virtually non-existent . |
| 18 | Muddles in language often occur ( as is only to be expected ) in the petitioner 's question rather than in the jurist 's answer . |
| 19 | The use of CCL as a common type of interface for many systems is based on the provision of translating software somewhere in the communication channel between host and the user , rather than in the user 's own terminal equipment , as in the previous examples . |
| 20 | The idea behind the language is to enable untrained operators to scan through a data base posing questions in ordinary English , rather than in the stilted query languages that most database systems involve . |
| 21 | ‘ Clarks decided to automate the design end rather than in the factory because , over the years , we have produced smaller run sizes but more styles . |
| 22 | They argue that notification of a new substance should take place at the moment it is developed , rather than in the run-up to marketing . |
| 23 | Hieronym Dudowski , that rare creature , a Kaszubian poet , doubtless caused much scratching of heads when he coined his slogan ‘ No Kaszubia without Poland — No Poland without Kaszubia ’ , but slowly the Kaszubians did come to see their own survival as lying in the resurrection of an independent Poland rather than in the straightjacket of Prussian-German citizenship . |
| 24 | They also decided to levy duty in Poland rather than in the Free City . |
| 25 | I suggest that they are involved in the sport of shooting rather than in the art of ferreting . |
| 26 | A further distinguishing feature of the Duval-Leroy is the way in which it has its feet firmly planted in the vineyards rather than in the cities of Reims or Épernay . |
| 27 | Its position indicates that in the past houses were grouped around this area rather than in the lengthy one-street formation as now . |
| 28 | Bone , in fact , started on the surface of the head , rather than in the early backbones . |
| 29 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 30 | We also discuss at some length the issue of occupational control — that is , that way of organising work where control over the work process resides in the hands of members of the occupational group rather than in the hands of a management hierarchy . |