Example sentences of "a political [noun] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a dynastic marriage designed to fit in with rules and regulations , a political arrangement rather than a personal one . |
| 3 | Throughout its inter-war history , the Conservative Party owed a great deal to Stanley Baldwin who , as Middlemass and Barnes have suggested , was a political giant rather than a political pigmy . |
| 4 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 5 | The Washington Post of July 18 described the vote as " a political gesture rather than a decisive legal act " . |
| 6 | The Washington Post of July 18 described the vote as " a political gesture rather than a decisive legal act " . |