Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter question is concerned with a judgement of the aims of the course rather than with the functioning of the course . |
| 2 | ‘ Trade union involvement must remain at the heart of the party but it must be based far more on individual choice and decision rather than through the exercise of a block vote , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The direction in which the discussion of literature in the Introduction to the Man of Law 's Tale points , however , is towards a comparison of Chaucer 's writing with that of his contemporary John Gower rather than towards the survey of literary genres detached from the accidental circumstances of the identity of authors of specific examples of those genres that we find in fragment VII . |
| 4 | The point of headroom is that those above should act as a support rather than as a control . |
| 5 | On one occasion he went to Dundee where the promoter knocked down his purse from £4 to £2. 10s. because he had come on his motor bike rather than on the train . |
| 6 | Under the changes solicitors will receive a flat rate for each legal aid case rather than for the amount of time spent on individual cases . |
| 7 | Under the changes solicitors will receive a flat rate for each legal aid case rather than for the amount of time spent on individual cases . |
| 8 | Much science , however , is well-established , and some philosophers like Hegel have been most interested in this established part rather than in the frontier where conjecture , refutation and research generally is going on . |
| 9 | On the contrary , by trying to re-create on specific occasions particular events associated with Osiris thought was concentrated on the present rather than on the past . |
| 10 | Both the diffusionist and the evolutionary methods contrast with the structural-functional , which is above all contextual , and seeks at least the primary significance of the present in the present rather than in the past . |
| 11 | Prices were lagging behind in the mid to late Eighties , rising in sympathy rather than on a burst of serious investment buying . |
| 12 | Ironically , as directorates become successful , so there is a greater sense of identification and loyalty to the particular directorate rather than to the hospital unit . |
| 13 | Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle . |
| 14 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 15 | Namaliu stressed that the raids had been authorized by field commanders rather than by the government , and suggested that similar occurrences could be avoided in the future if both countries co-operated in border surveillance measures to prevent BRA members from using Solomon Islands ' territory . |
| 16 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 17 | After a flight to the east , meetings should take place in the latter half of the daytime rather than in the morning by new local time . |
| 18 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 19 | A failure to solve a puzzle is seen as a failure of the scientist rather than as an inadequacy of the paradigm . |
| 20 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 21 | Hyperventilation is a process of breathing rapidly , inhaling and exhaling from the chest rather than from the stomach . |
| 22 | Mr Oliver says he will market the rink better than in the past |
| 23 | Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies . |
| 24 | So the fact that Paste is grouped together with Cut and Copy means that you probably recognise it by association rather than by the picture on the icon ! |
| 25 | It was natural , therefore , that when the ancestors of plaice and sole took to the sea bottom , they should have lain on one side rather than on the belly like the ancestors of skates and rays . |
| 26 | Now , dazzled , she realised that Amy was in fact praising Phoebe 's commitments , on her side rather than on the side of the pompous arrogant ex-professor . |
| 27 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 28 | I had the temerity to object to these insertions , because I knew full well from years of grubbing in the darker recesses of the phylum that the changes were in the mind rather than in the matter . |
| 29 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 30 | Fish , obviously , could be caught but bream tended to run with these baits between their lips rather than in the mouth and to strike simply pulled them away . |