Example sentences of "[adv] than [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Second , governments need to apply financial instruments to the materials society uses rather than to the wastes it creates . |
2 | Ivy Compton-Burnett , whose elegantly minimal and stylized dialogue has similarities with the narrative technique of Nathalie Sarraute , was appreciated in the 1950s primarily for her wit in portraying the viciousness of social interaction rather than for the techniques she employed . |
3 | It was that point in the morning when people usually began to think about the soup and potatoes that were expected shortly , rather than about the books they were reading . |
4 | She stared him full in the eye , as if seeking the truth in the way he looked at her , rather than in the words he spoke . |
5 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |