Example sentences of "rather [conj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) . |
| 2 | Being at the start of a slimming programme , rather than at a midway stage . |
| 3 | ‘ There was another row at Newmarket last year when Sheikh Mohammed bought In The Groove privately rather than at a Tattersalls auction . ’ |
| 4 | Instead , cross at lights whenever possible or at a clear stretch of road where there is good visibility , rather than at a corner . |
| 5 | It has long been the view of central government that these forecasts are much more accurate if they are made at a local rather than at a national level ( Hammond , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | The simple margin method has the disadvantage of amortizing the discount or premium on the FRN in a straight line over the remaining life of the bond rather than at a constantly compounded rate . |
| 7 | In addition , by having this land available at the value of its current use , rather than at a value based on speculation as to its possible development , the community will be able to provide , in the places that need them , the public facilities it needs , but can not now afford because of the inflated price it has to pay to the private owner . |
| 8 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 9 | In an indefinitely long game , the important point is that we can both win at the expense of the banker , rather than at the expense of one another . |
| 10 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 11 | Peak generation occurs at about 1% reflectance rather than at the 2–3% reflectance reported in a number of published studies . |
| 12 | The reefs in Denmark are surrounded by carbonate mudstones and in this case they probably grew on the upper part of the submarine slope rather than at the edge of the platform . |
| 13 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 14 | The ‘ definitive ’ John Barnard Ferrari will make its debut at the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in June 1993 rather than at the start of 1994 as originally scheduled . |
| 15 | She refers to the lines joining them as ‘ lines of force ’ , and states that pagans worship the Old Gods on these rather than at the power centres themselves which had tended to have been ‘ exorcized ’ by the Christians by the erection of chapels dedicated to St Michael . |
| 16 | The best time to start exercising is at the start rather than at the end of a dieting campaign . |
| 17 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |
| 18 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 19 | The critical Marxist position , then , takes ideology as a concept formulable at the level of the mode of production , considered as a set of underlying structures , rather than at the level of class or social group . |
| 20 | The American experience of Rolling Stone and Creem had shown that there was an enthusiastic market for a new way of writing about music ; working on the assumption that readers were literate , broad-minded and critical in their evaluation of music rather than at the mercy of pop trends . |
| 21 | The kestrel is our most common falcon , but what a delight it is to see it hunting in a natural habitat rather than at the edge of a motorway . |
| 22 | Fluid medication should be given in the side of the mouth , rather than at the front . |
| 23 | However , the NCOAP directed the greater part of its invective at the moral issue , rather than at the prior financial one . |
| 24 | As a result , business was dictated by local tastes and tended to be conducted in the closing stages of the fair rather than at the private view , which used to be marked by dealers trading among themselves . |
| 25 | The possibility that this sort of information is represented across an array of cells , rather than at the level of the single unit does , however , mean that single cell recording alone will not give us a useful answer . |
| 26 | What is needed , as one of his followers has pointed out , is an account of theories which deals with changes ‘ at the level of the limits and consequences of the epistemological configuration they represent ’ , rather than at the level of individuals . |
| 27 | He spoke on a radio programme on which Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley defended AIDS spending cuts , saying the campaign should now be aimed at ‘ groups most at risk ’ rather than at the wider population . |
| 28 | The Celtic Church celebrated the feast days of the Virgin at the same time as the Egyptian Church , rather than at the time decreed by Rome . |
| 29 | In the main , therefore , its ideologies are to be found in the form of its embodied working practices and unquestioned assumptions rather than at the level of manifest policy statements . |
| 30 | This racist behaviour is rational , because such strategies of social closure are logically consistent with the aims of protecting white privilege , and this can best be done through organized forms of discrimination , rather than at the level of individual expressions of prejudice . |