Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] than [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a special kind of scanner which provides a means of reading printed characters on documents and converting them into digital codes that can be read into a computer as actual text rather than just a picture . |
| 2 | It is a shame that there are no photographs but each chapter begins with a Tom Price sketch and the text marks Sylvie out as a skilled travel writer rather than just a traveller who writes , a thoroughly good read . |
| 3 | Erm , many of you will realize that East Devon have been requested er by the Government to prepare these area wide plans rather than just a town plan so they take in and encompass the whole of the area and there was quite a lengthy and substantial document with the , with all the different policy statements on I believe Councillor ? |
| 4 | This creates a network of all possible word sequences rather than just a tree of isolated words . |
| 5 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 6 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 7 | The possibility of travel is an obvious attraction , as is the added dimension of being a soldier rather than just a chef , as well as being part of a large professional organisation and the camaraderie that brings . |
| 8 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 9 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 10 | I always use Flex shampoo and conditioner for frequent use because when I 'm working I may have to wash my hair more than once a day . |
| 11 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 12 | Yeah more to sort of statements of principles rather than just a policy so it lasts a bit . |
| 13 | If some correlation is found between variables , the researcher has to show that this is a causal relationship rather than just a coincidence . |
| 14 | Yet I doubt they have meat more than once a week — and I doubt he thinks about money from one year 's end to the other . ’ |
| 15 | Some of the causes are still unknown , although with advanced medical knowledge much more is known about mental handicap today than even a decade ago . |
| 16 | Try as they might , the City 's denizens have never been as colourful and flamboyant as those who set out to make crime a career rather than just a sideline . |
| 17 | Gran would n't follow her ; her rheumatism was too bad to cope with the stairs more than twice a day , morning and evening . |
| 18 | I see the tree very much in the round and try to create depth rather than just a silhouette . |
| 19 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 20 | With the reading of Hippolytus and the cracking of the outer shell of his cheerful , hard-working , no-nonsense self , introspection was running riot and ‘ spiritualism ’ — by which he clearly meant dabbling in affairs of the spirit rather than solely a preoccupation with the dead — had , by the summer of 1929 , taken a firm grip on him . |
| 21 | Yngwie then told me how he created the orchestra on ‘ Fire And Ice ’ : ‘ We had two violins , a viola , a cello and a contrabass and we overdubbed that quartet four times , so on record it sounds like a chamber orchestra rather than just a quartet . |
| 22 | With some airlines , there is the facility ( for example the ‘ sleeperette ’ , to take a good sleep rather than just a nap ) . |
| 23 | Lawyers in Local government more than just a career . |
| 24 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 25 | Does he agree that the law should be changed so that the police have a duty rather than just a power to act under section 39 ? |
| 26 | For those of you who find it necessary to re-boot your system more than once a day this utility is invaluable . |
| 27 | Perhaps the fiddle sheet did n't run to outside entertainment more than once a month . |
| 28 | Diana rarely came to the house more than twice a year . |
| 29 | With the years , it had seemed to get heavier , so that now she made only two excursions a week , mostly to the outskirts , making a point never to visit the same house more than twice a year . |
| 30 | Taking medicine more than twice a day could be a potential problem for many people , the article warns . |