Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because this treatment is a holistic therapy , the person as a whole will be treated rather than a specific problem area and this treatment often involves a combination of techniques , such as dietary therapy , water treatment , hot or cold water packs and massage . |
| 2 | Anyone who wanted to fight a battle to keep a right to report rather than a statutory duty can forget it . |
| 3 | As a result , the slug hit Lomax low in his right side , inflicting a painful flesh wound rather than a fatal chest shot . |
| 4 | But they can be slow to use , and many experienced users prefer the keyboard shortcuts they provide rather than the laborious use of mouse and pull-down menus . |
| 5 | These issues implied that a CPIS should be designed rather than a manual system . |
| 6 | It has thus fared better than a small party could expect , maintaining a PS almost equal to its PV and even on occasion slightly in excess of it . |
| 7 | The treatment of mental illness was advancing considerably at that time , and it probably contributed more than the legislative change to reducing both the use of compulsory procedures and the incidence of long stays in hospital . |
| 8 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 9 | A colleague of mine in Buckinghamshire had great difficulty in selling his little terraced house ; after months on the market not one person had come further than the front door and he was about to lower the already modest asking price . |
| 10 | One of the originals from Cnut 's reign ( S 974 ) looks as though the boundary clause was added later than the main text , for there is a distinct gap between its last word and the beginning of the dating clause . |
| 11 | But I ‘ d be dropped faster than a hot brick if I betrayed a confidence . |
| 12 | At the same time , whether ‘ collaboration ’ always implies ‘ critical estrangement ’ is , for music as for film , a question to be answered rather than a necessary conclusion from the premises . |
| 13 | Using a fake scent for the hounds to track rather than a live fox would take the blood out of this sport and opposition would cease . |
| 14 | Before the trade took off I bought a small font ( of the splashing rather than the total immersion variety ) for 20 crisp oncers ; now you 'd need to check your savings before indulging in a piece of granite . |
| 15 | ‘ You deserved better than a one-night stand , Kate . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that our talented children deserve better than a Labour council , let alone a Labour Government ? |
| 17 | We know you 've both been through the HMS Dolphin Submarine Escape Tower and that you 've done more than a fair bit of free diving . |
| 18 | Equipment-cost inflation has done more than the huge cost of the Welfare State and our poor economic performance to reduce Britain 's military independence . |
| 19 | Luch bedded on a bag of bracken in a corner , but she and Ranald woke earlier than the old man . |
| 20 | Medical technology has moved faster than the ethicolegal system , and opinion is divided on many issues — the debate on virgin births being one example . |
| 21 | As it happened , we never met more than a bracing Force 5 . |
| 22 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 23 | The project will try to go further than a mere description of attitudes or beliefs : the object is to explain their origins in previous experiences and to predict their implications for future action . |
| 24 | There were of course other institutions of central government , which can not be given more than a bare mention here . |
| 25 | It 's a question of how you dance round them I suspect rather than the actual pole . |
| 26 | Rather than continually allocate and reallocate memory as different words are processed , an array is used rather than a dynamic list for storing the information . |
| 27 | The most obvious distinguishing feature of the experiment by Hall and Honey is that an appetitive reinforcer was used rather than the electric shock of the conditioned suppression procedure . |
| 28 | The decrease in mortality in the Minnessota study may relate to the high percentage of colonoscopies performed rather than the faecal occult blood testing per se and if so , lends support to the concept of endocsopic screening as proposed by Atkin . |
| 29 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |
| 30 | He must be offered more than the bare minimum . |