Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 2 | He was led to believe that he would receive better than a university education with Mr. Wickstead as his personal tutor . |
| 3 | Phil said : ‘ Recent monitoring shows that a further gradual improvement is taking place , with the level for 1990 recorded at 0.2 ppm — substantially better than the EC standard of 0.3 . |
| 4 | Italy could also perform better than the EC average of 3% as could Spain — with the admitted advantage of starting from a smaller base . |
| 5 | The gloomy assessment of Derry 's chances is based on the poorest goal scoring record of any team in the top six — City have averaged less than a goal game from 28 League outings . |
| 6 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 7 | OFTEL was instructed to ensure that , on average , the nominal price of BT phone calls rose x per cent per year less than the inflation rate of the retail price index . |
| 8 | This , rather than a Macaulayish enthusiasm for the export of parliamentary institutions , was the motive for his advocacy , through Congress , of political reform : British authority was to be given a human face by allowing qualified Indians some share in the running of the country . |
| 9 | As far as is possible it is preferable to charge the actual cost incurred rather than a percentage assessment to the cost accounts . |
| 10 | And if skills associated with the new technology are specific to a particular occupation rather than to a firm , why should either employer or employee prefer a long-term contract with one employer rather than a consultancy contract for a particular piece of work ? |
| 11 | It could be used , as it was by Bacon and Mersenne , to justify an empirical rather than a rationalist approach to nature . |
| 12 | However this debate , and the ensuing documents , have given rise to a legal-formal or contractual accountability model rather than a partnership model for education , according to Lawton . |
| 13 | And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be . |
| 14 | As a county councillor , rather than a borough councillor on the way |
| 15 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 16 | Despite his physical antipathy , Mozart wrote a sonata for two pianos ( rather than a duet sonata for one keyboard ! ) for himself and Josepha to play , and dedicated to her a set of six sonatas for piano and violin which was published by the prestigious Viennese firm of Artaria in November , 1781 . |
| 17 | Newco will usually be acquiring a trade and will therefore be a trading company rather than an investment company from the outset . |
| 18 | If a much more severe monetary policy had been followed there is every reason to believe that while price rises would have been curtailed , unemployment would have risen even more sharply , thus confirming Keynesian analysis of a lack of aggregate demand rather than the monetarist concept of a natural rate of unemployment . |
| 19 | Oliver 's sharp sensitive features and figure adapted well to Sam Weller , but tonight he wished he 'd chosen anything rather than the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers to read . |
| 20 | During the eighteenth century , Persia economy began to decline , partly because the Europeans had begun to use the sea route rather than the land route to the East . |
| 21 | Its principal advantage is that it most accurately reflects changes in the value of the demised property rather than the business efficiency of a particular tenant or inflation generally . |
| 22 | The production of these ideological forms would be by people whose labour is mental rather than material , whose product has effects in a world of ideas and social relations rather than the material world of objects . |
| 23 | There was just a few yards walk to the main road , a careful look around , then across it , instinctively choosing the potential cover of a derelict warehouse on that side rather than the dockyard fence on this . |
| 24 | For this reason we refer to this group as the Rowdies , rather than the media appellation of hooligans , for as we shall see , the label ‘ hooligan ’ carries special meaning within the soccer micro-culture . |
| 25 | That is , he considered the term God to be an appellation for Truth rather than the term Truth to be a description or attribute of God . |
| 26 | Over the last two decades , then , the place of the university in German life has become most sharply focused on the teaching rather than the research role of the university , and the academics . |
| 27 | Subsidiarity has become a ( still at times contentious ) means of regulating areas of competence and especially of financial responsibility between state and private services rather than the rallying call of privatization . |
| 28 | Other changes agreed were a reduction in the powers of the appointed ( and military-dominated ) Senate ; the appointment of the House of Representatives Speaker rather than the Senate Speaker as president of the National Assembly ; and an enhancement of the powers of the representatives . |
| 29 | For the purposes of this paragraph we have conducted our analysis using the OPCS " 5 KOS occupational grouping system rather than the Warwick Institute of Employment 's WOC system . |
| 30 | He was also strongly opposed to the CNAA being responsible for the development of a rival system to that of the universities , rather than the safety net for the universities that he had envisaged . |