Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] than [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Labour MP Bob Cryer said : ‘ They are prepared to accept medieval barbarity rather than strain trade relations . ’
2 But if they follow their usual form they will do nothing , because they are prepared to accept medieval barbarity rather than strain trade relations . ’
3 He remembered him as ‘ a brown bagger ’ , that is a man who to save money brought a sandwich lunch in a brown bag rather than waste time and money eating in the mess .
4 It is widely held that the increased basal acid secretion in patients with duodenal ulcer disease is determined by vagal drive rather than circulating gastrin .
5 ‘ Some may find it easier and quicker to give out a simple number rather than spend time asking about diet and so on . ’
6 The similarity of the clinical features , the frequency of associated inflammatory bowel disease , age at diagnosis , and radiological extent of disease all indicate that these patients can be considered to have primary sclerosing cholangitis rather than sclerosing cholangitis secondary to calculi damaging the biliary tree and resulting in stricture formation .
7 The problem with the International Data Corp figures is that they try to treat Unix workstations as a separate market rather than bundling Unix workstations and Unix servers together , which is presumably the reason for the implied figure for IBM Corp sales of only $558m , where IBM has implied total 1992 RS/6000 business of $2,000m .
8 It can be maintained , for instance , that erect posture is needed to support a large size rather than represent progress to an endothermic regime .
9 Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house .
10 They argued contentiously that high unemployment might cause mature entry rates to fall , ‘ perhaps because potential entrants would prefer to retain their existing employment rather than risk unemployment following a spell of full time higher education . ’
11 Workers would probably have been less inclined to support them if their protests had met with reasoned discussion rather than tear gas .
12 Yes , but er I think that erm , before we champion er , or back er people like Mr Yeltsin and say that they rep represent progressive forces , I 'd like to be clear about where those forces see themselves going , because I do n't see nationalism as a progressive force in the er , in the last decade of the twentieth century , I think we need to be concentrating on those people who are trying to build a new international order rather than splitting things up in the Soviet Union in a way which may be catastrophic .
13 Though you may pick up some new techniques , the national squads are basically designed to select already gifted karateka rather than teach karate tactics or techniques .
14 These characters seem derived from abstract knowledge rather than lived experience .
15 These reforms have a common aim : to control escalating costs by improving efficiency rather than cutting patient care .
16 The wider range of styles prompts five vocalists ; Souzay is the least satisfactory , sounding woolier here than on the Fauré set , but again , his intuitive style more than makes amends .
17 An I such a glutton for punishment that I would take on romantic love rather than follow Germaine Greer 's example and embrace ‘ hagdom ’ , as she recommends in her new book The Change ( Hamish Hamilton , £16.99 ) , and with it , a loveless old age ?
18 It has been argued that the form the expansion took-monetary expansion rather than tax cuts — is proof of this intention .
19 He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life .
20 In the study of middle-class families , Firth , Hubert and Forge were able to find only small numbers of such cases , and then the conflict tended to be expressed as private resentment rather than open hostility ( pp. 373–8 ) .
21 If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words .
22 There is perhaps a need for employers to be educated to adopt a more pragmatic approach rather than treating cases with an ‘ it 's the principle of the thing ’ attitude .
23 Pointers will enable a file to be held in a single location rather than separate copies being spread around the system .
24 Sexual selection on males may also reduce the average fitness of females ( Lande , 1980 ) : in species where adult males are substantially larger than females , producing sons appears to depress the mother 's subsequent reproductive success more than producing daughters ( Clutton-Brock , Albon & Guinness , 1981 ) .
25 In view of the fact that eye testing is important in picking up illness in the elderly and that we are in the business of preventive medicine rather than treating illnesses when they occur , will my hon. Friend keep an open mind ?
26 Why do the farmers normally leave the floodplain fields in permanent grass rather than rotating crops on them ?
27 Until more work of this type is carried out , variation between brooches will remain an art-historical subject rather than carrying implications also for social and manufacturing organisation and , at the foundation , the history of technology .
28 ‘ As a retailer , naturally I would prefer to see added value rather than price cutting , ’ she adds .
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