Example sentences of "than [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 2 | For values of H less than unity the pull.out torque/speed characteristic is asymptotic to the T=0 axis . |
| 3 | On both issues , he suggested , reality had long outstripped British rhetoric and Whitehall would do better bargaining on details than cold-shouldering the whole process . |
| 4 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 5 | Even when the discriminations of the zoologists began to be based on systematic classification rather than fantasy the criteria that were used to distinguish man from non-man remained very uncertain . |
| 6 | But in casting himself as judge rather than criminal the Reeve himself is the beguiler beguiled by the partiality of his moral vision : that is , his own self-righteousness , and his ire towards his fellows . |
| 7 | George felt rather than saw the swing of the camera that was aiming over his own left shoulder at Gerrard , felt it move backward , and then a great surge of apprehension came up into his chest , drying his mouth and clogging his throat . |
| 8 | He felt rather than saw the two girls glance at him appraisingly but took no notice . |
| 9 | She heard rather than saw the back door open and close . |
| 10 | But he knew that she stared at him , and felt rather than saw the hostility there . |
| 11 | I lie up there night after night ’ — she felt rather than saw the motion of his head back towards his home-'but I 'm with you over here . |
| 12 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 13 | She longed for something to do other than trudge the glorious , heather-clad grouse moors . |
| 14 | Generally speaking I try and use a fairly clean sound and overdrive it with effects , rather than overdrive the amp . ’ |
| 15 | I made a mental note to myself that if the doctor on her case set that beautiful leg anything other than back the way it should be , then he had better start looking for a good dentist . |
| 16 | Whatever the style , Matcham was always prepared to bend the architecture to satisfy both the sight-lines and the all-important connection of performer to audience : tier fronts slope down towards boxes which frame the proscenium arch and , as an architectural ensemble , draw out rather than distance the performer . |
| 17 | Since aluminium expands more than steel the steel bolts had worked loose . |
| 18 | Because radon is denser than air the lower floor is likely to have a higher concentration of radon ; on average bedrooms have 65 per cent of the concentration of living rooms . |
| 19 | German seems to be generally more conjunctive than English The use of explicit conjunction makes the structure of the text more transparent . |
| 20 | Moreover , because tea required a more stable labour supply than coffee the plantation Tamils became more settled , though many continued to retain some ties with India . |
| 21 | The plan may have envisaged no more than provisioning the Danish fleet when it was already on the scene . |