Example sentences of "than [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witness , for example , the morose faces ordering house white rather than champagne in the City bars ; the sheepish scramble for the Surbiton train dead on six o'clock ; the City staff noticeboards selling Fiats rather than Ferraris . |
| 2 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
| 3 | I 'd rather be dead than fight on one of those things . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said I. ‘ You got more important things to do than fight with your brother . |
| 5 | For example , he stumbles into this howler on the question of social security as cash , rather than provision in kind : ‘ Social security benefits have been introduced to make up for the withdrawal of more general provision : examples in the UK are free prescriptions ( introduced because prescription charges were introduced ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 6 | It is interesting that a fairly ad-hoc method of transformation ( Test 5 ) is in most respects more successful than division by a prime number . |
| 7 | Heart [ leb ] here signifies the seat of thought , not emotion , so is more akin to ‘ mind ’ ; hence , to labour the analogy somewhat , law is written into identity and consciousness rather than heart in the modern sense . |
| 8 | Do they hold it in an unusual position-to the side rather than full-square to the eyes ? |
| 9 | But anything other than aquiescence with the regent could only tie them into political and ideological knots of Gordian proportions . |
| 10 | The word fundamentalism is unfortunately used by the Western press as the ‘ thought represented by mediaeval Islam ’ — rather than Islam at its source or in its pristine form . |
| 11 | It should be added that relapse is uncommon and is almost certainly less common than reinfection as a cause of reappearance of active syphilis . |
| 12 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 13 | A N'pani of Alexei 's household had designed the garden , and as a result there was more art than agriculture to its appearance . |
| 14 | The pope was thus successor of St Peter , between God and man , inferior to God but above man , St Peter 's vicar , but also , as Innocent now claims , " vicar of Christ " , as St Peter had been , rather than vicar of St Peter . |
| 15 | The series by Berg shown in Example 122 was obviously designed to give a lyrical melodic sweep to the melody in the second movement of his Lyric Suite for string quartet : It will be noted that Berg 's series contains three distinct tonal groups : minor chords on D and F , and four notes from G to D within the tonal zone of G. However , tonal factors are less essential to a good melodic series than variety of intervals and memorable interval relationships . |
| 16 | The effect of the separate dietary arrangements was to separate Hindu from Muslim in station buffets rather than caste from caste . |
| 17 | This difference can be measured from the dissymmetry coefficient Z which is unity for small particles , but greater than unity for large particles . |
| 18 | This is a prize that should be treated with contempt , for , like most Japanese gifts to museums and other ‘ cultural ’ interventions , it is no more than camouflage for their commercial and industrial rapacity , and at its worst is an anaesthetic that renders the recipient quite helpless to protest . |
| 19 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 20 | The rescue services have more important things to do than look for windsurfers who are comfortably seated in the bar ! |
| 21 | Then when we have a difficult relationship at home or work it 's easier to blame the other person than look at what we did . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to leave Ana , ’ she confessed quietly and he had no time to do anything other than look at her intently because Ana walked in at that moment , looking bright and determined . |
| 23 | Natural history had been based in the museum , and in the field ; but the newer science of biology , named by a Frenchman and a German and prominently pursued by these two nations , became increasingly a laboratory science with experiment rather than description as the key . |
| 24 | ‘ In my job , old boy , I 've learned that truth is stranger than fiction by a long way . ’ |
| 25 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 26 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 27 | Elizabeth was prepared to put her trust in essential oils rather than resort to an even stronger preparation from her doctor who had already prescribed an ointment which had not worked . |
| 28 | The ‘ foreign interests ’ of the Federal Republic of Germany , in terms of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis , were seen as particularly compelling and no good cause had been shown for doing other than resort to the Convention 's procedures . |
| 29 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 30 | Most of the schemes provide a simpler and cheaper route than resort to a court of law , without taking away the right of consumers to go to law if they should wish to do so . |