Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore complex data derived methods which obscure rather than highlight the provisional nature or sensitivity of the models should not be developed . |
| 2 | ( b ) Reject those words which obscure rather than clarify meaning-words which are only present for purposes of style , linguistic sense , grammar , or form . |
| 3 | Butler sees deviant sexualities more generally as involving this same process of denaturalizing , as parodic subversive repetitions which displace rather than consolidate heterosexual norms . |
| 4 | In their lives they adopted various practical courses of action which accommodated rather than resolved their dilemmas . |
| 5 | What is more , Kylie herself profits rather than suffers from her not specially glamorous girl-next-door looks and produces an unstudied and effective portrait of a young , underage provincial girl who falls for Charlie Schlatter 's equally youthful sailor and gets dubbed a deliquent . |
| 6 | They train the labour they need rather than import it ( but note the exceptions like the Korean expatriate workers ) and often give these workers the sorts of skills that can usefully be hired by indigenous rivals ( UNCTC , 1988a ) . |
| 7 | British Telecommunications Plc 's BT North America has announced deployment of 9.6Kbps local dial capabilities in 99 new US cities , meaning that during the last six months it has more than doubled its coverage . |
| 8 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 9 | But he knew from experience it was often best with Blanche simply to answer a question she asked rather than seek to question why she posed it . |
| 10 | The model is a short-run model and this assumption means that , in the short-run , producers will respond to changes in demand by changing the quantity they produce rather than price . |
| 11 | Have a leader who co-ordinates rather than directs the team ? |
| 12 | Perhaps some Koi keepers still need to be convinced that they can add to the well-being of their beloved stock by removing pesticides , metals , and such horrors as chloroform from their water , but those who have invested in a tapwater filter , often cheap when compared to the value of their fish , have seen results that demonstrate , without any doubt , that there is much to be gained by permitting the fish to live in conditions which help rather than hinder heir survival . |
| 13 | Lord Reid went on to say that the reason that the court will not enforce a restraint which goes further than affording protection to the legitimate interests of a party is because too wide a restraint is against the public interest . |
| 14 | This is partly because as a harder metal it makes a more secure setting for valuable stones and partly that being a white metal it reflects rather than competes with the brilliance and lustre of diamonds . |
| 15 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 16 | Clearly the great advantage of thinking about your visual as well as your verbal behaviour is that you can choose visual behaviours which help rather than hinder progress towards your objective . |
| 17 | These effective treatments , along with his rejection of blood-letting , purging and polypharmacy which weakened rather than helped the patient , gave homoeopathy the edge over orthodox therapy for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | slamming the car door she trotted rather than walked — towards the flat-roofed building dominating the quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 19 | The median delay has substantially increased since 1990 in all five pain clinics based in district general hospitals : in three of these clinics it has more than doubled . |
| 20 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 21 | They were , he said , the kind of documents you eat rather than read . |
| 22 | During the past year it has more than doubled . |
| 23 | For example , where a decision has to be made quickly then it may be more appropriate to tell an individual what to do rather than persuade him . |
| 24 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 25 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |