Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such , we are interested in participation rather than competition . |
| 2 | UK marketing manager , Colin Starr , said that customers were more interested in software rather than hardware choices . |
| 3 | But Sun/Star readers were less interested in politics even than Mirror readers ; and they were the least likely to tune in to highbrow news programmes such as Newsnight , Channel 4 News , or Radio 4 news . |
| 4 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 5 | But Manetho , who lived in the third century BC , wrote in Greek and his work must be regarded as Hellenistic in character rather than Egyptian . |
| 6 | Because ZFM was set up in 1967 at the insistence of the military , who argued that economic development in the Amazon basin was necessary for national security , its managing authority , SUFRAMA ( Superintendencia da Zona Franca de Manaus ) is responsible to Defence rather than Trade . |
| 7 | It was also reported that lack of success in higher education was largely due to non-completion rather than failure . |
| 8 | Is it not possible to find an understanding of faith that is compatible with uncertainty rather than certainty of the existence of a Deity ? |
| 9 | The distortion is really proportional to power rather than voltage . |
| 10 | Sometimes the distortion is really proportional to power rather than voltage . |
| 11 | Proximity to sources is suggestive of collusion rather than adversity , though elements of both probably co-exist . |
| 12 | The best Gorgonzolas should be clean and sharp and almost green in appearance rather than blue . |
| 13 | Although by nature inclined to thought rather than action , through circumstance he became fond of hard work . |
| 14 | The very Spanish serenader of ‘ La sérénade interrompue ’ takes his intended by storm rather than stealth and ‘ Voiles ’ is hardly sans rigueur et caressant . |
| 15 | The public will have to be satisfied with vengeance rather than restitution . |