Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 2 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 3 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 4 | It was a vote of faith in Draper 's musical judgement rather than a demonstration of Branson 's own , but the decision was the right one . |
| 5 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |
| 6 | The other staff member co-ordinated the feedback , making it plain that , for these purposes , the repetition of points could be taken as evidence of the strength of shared experience rather than a lack of incisiveness on the part of the spokespersons . |
| 7 | Novell is handling the transaction as a purchase rather than a pooling of interests and will take a one-time write-off of up to $250m the quarter the deal closes . |
| 8 | Taking controlled deep breaths will calm you down and get you into a more relaxed rhythm rather than a state of uncontrolled panic . |
| 9 | When ‘ positivism ’ is so construed , it is opposed to realism and insists that theory is a guide to prediction rather than a source of substantive hypotheses about what could not , even in principle , be observed . |
| 10 | Even Professor Plant , author of the most thoughtful party political analysis of the concept , concluded an article entitled ‘ Labour 's sights on rights ’ in The Times in June 1990 with a whimper rather than a bang of citizenship . |
| 11 | It held that God is the Creator ex nihilo thus implying a divide rather than a continuum of being between man 's soul and God . |
| 12 | Again , it must be remembered , the courts exercise a power of review rather than a power of appeal . |
| 13 | This dismal monumentalism is the apotheosis of impersonality , a confirmation rather than a denial of the mindset which led to such slaughter in the first place , though the architect intended no irony . |
| 14 | ( It 's just possible that the youngsters were expressing a scientific talent rather than a dislike of the press , for their is no denying that McGinty 's ample form would produce an immediate uplift in the balloon . ) |
| 15 | They should be encouraged by the tax system and give from a desire to share or spread pleasure rather than a sense of guilt or duty . |
| 16 | They constitute agendas for research rather than a collection of findings and substantiated theories of social life . |
| 17 | Courts , if they had been called upon to investigate people 's employment protection rights , might well have deemed some of them to have had one continuous employment relationship broken only by shortages of work rather than a series of different relationships . |
| 18 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 19 | We sought to investigate the hypothesis that episodes of spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux cause reflex UOS relaxations , which may be the mechanism of regurgitation rather than a deficiency of basal UOS tone . |
| 20 | Substitution of the to infinitive gives a somewhat different impression : the events seem to be evoked in a much more resultative fashion — as the fact of having been made to scream , the state of Byron 's feelings — that is , as an object of reflection rather than a recall of actual experience . |
| 21 | Throughout 1985–86 North continued shipments of arms to Iran in a series of complex deals involving sleazy arms dealers , shady middlemen , Swiss numbered bank accounts , suitcases stuffed with dollar bills , and all the trappings of dishonest behaviour one would associate with drug smugglers and the Mafia rather than a member of the White House staff . |
| 22 | Insiders reckon the notion of slimming the government machine carries even less credibility within City Hall now than a couple of years ago — and even then it was only talk . |
| 23 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
| 24 | And all are derived from one Pininfarina concept car — the Dino Berlinetta Speciale — which made its debut more than a quarter of a century ago at the 1965 Paris show . |
| 25 | Edward 's sheltering of Robert of Artois , however , was a symptom rather than a cause of his deteriorating relationship with Philip VI . |
| 26 | Using your own numerical examples critically discuss the proposition that the market value of a company is not dependent on its level of gearing and that the financing decision is essentially concerned with marketing the company to the investment community rather than a process of maximizing its value . |
| 27 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 28 | And he had at his disposal almost an embarrassment rather than a shortage of political experience . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the amount of any distribution received on such ordinary shares which will be treated as an income distribution rather than a return of capital will be increased to take account of the deferred repayment of premium accrued at the date of conversion ( see s210 TA 1988 ) . |
| 30 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |