Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of arguments is usually advanced in favour of a selected or key settlement policy for rural areas rather than a strategy of dispersed growth . |
| 2 | These procedures will need to tailored to each specific sale but a common theme will be a guideline for the submission date for indicative offers rather than a deadline . |
| 3 | With the Rule of St Benedict ( c. 550 ) , supremely , the monastic community was launched on the road of catering for ordinary people rather than a spiritual élite . |
| 4 | First , the effect is pathway-specific ; that is , it occurs only in the cells to which the conditioning train is delivered , rather than spreading across to others — it is thus the result of the functioning of a network of specific connections rather than a wave of diffuse activity ; because there are several distinct input pathways to separate areas even within a single hippocampal slice , this specificity can be elegantly demonstrated . |
| 5 | Henceforward they were a minor annoyance on the very fringes of European politics rather than a serious menace to British security . |
| 6 | In spite of these inconveniences , and their exploitation by British policy , it was the collapse of Spanish authority rather than a creole revolution which began the processes by which the Empire was destroyed . |
| 7 | A realistic scientific theory will consist of a complex of universal statements rather than a single statement like ‘ All swans are white ’ . |
| 8 | Male homosexuality is increasingly regarded as a variation of sexual behaviour rather than a perversion , and although the homosexual male is still treated badly by the law , in comparison to the heterosexual , he no longer feels the urgent need for anonymity and secrecy . |
| 9 | Many older people may consider any limitations of activity which they experience to be a result of old age rather than a chronic health problem . |
| 10 | This is partly to ensure that any increase in profitability can be identified as the result of improved efficiency rather than a change in the method of compiling the accounts . |
| 11 | Again , we find that Wright 's British data suggests a mixing of separate varieties rather than a post-Creole continuum . |
| 12 | Nizan 's willingness to envisage international diplomacy as an act of moral integrity rather than a process of tactical and strategic expediency was highlighted several years later in May 1939 , at a moment when Stalin tightened his grip on foreign policy by replacing Litvinov with Molotov . |
| 13 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 14 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 15 | The acquisition of volatiles by the terrestrial planets is a subject which , in the main , has been developed on the assumption of an accretionary mode of planetary formation rather than a protoplanetary mode ( section 2.1.5 ) . |
| 16 | In trying to protect sources of water for drinking , the EC proposal is a step towards environmental purity rather than a sticking-plaster solution which does the minimum needed to avoid the worst nitrate pollution . |
| 17 | But to many of the naturalists actually involved , the new discoveries required only a revision of traditional ideas rather than a revolution . |
| 18 | The book 's origins as a special issue of the journal Women 's Studies International Quarterly are all too apparent and it offers a series of partial glimpses rather than a coherent overall picture . |
| 19 | The ‘ harm to interests ’ test for the kinds of enforceable obligation conceals rival conceptions of distributive justice rather than a balancing of economic liberties . |
| 20 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Retaining large numbers of small farms rather than a lesser number of large farms is usually considered beneficial in conservation terms ; both the Countryside Commission arid the Nature Conservancy Council have used this argument . |
| 23 | In fact a computer manufacturer normally designs a number of compatible models rather than a single computer , and these cover a range of speeds , capacities , and costs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 26 | Majority verdicts , a mechanical adjustment to the process of criminal trials rather than a genuinely new policy , touched a nerve in the body politic as matters concerning juries often do . |
| 27 | The Cobol approach to object-oriented programming will mainly be one of incremental re-engineering of venerable applications rather than a rush to write new programs , hence the need to retrofit new Cobol into old code . |
| 28 | There are at least only a couple of potential potholes rather than a series . |
| 29 | Thus a consciousness of proved quality rather than a habit of self-questioning , as Arnold had no doubt intended , was often the result of a public school education . |
| 30 | While most engineers struggle to keep their heads above water , Weir 's latest results were more than buoyant — up 26 p.c. to £34m , with new orders more than a third higher at £474m and turnover ahead a third at £424m . |