Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortgages hit family incomes more directly and forcibly than paying more for the Volkswagen or Sony video recorder which would be among the potentially inflationary effects of devaluation . |
| 2 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 3 | Differences in opinion can be accentuated by this process so that the parents start to argue with each other rather than dealing jointly with the child . |
| 4 | The nature of time in the British Civil Service as changed , cut up into small blocks covered by forward-looking three year corporate plans , rather than looking backwards to a living corporate tradition . |
| 5 | Stults pointed out that trained rescuers who are on their own often delay calling an emergency service and may use neighbours and other bystanders rather than dialling immediately for an ambulance ( the main source of a defibrillator ) . |
| 6 | If there was a brake , this would not happen and the person would have to stop and start all the time rather than moving smoothly around the supermarket . |
| 7 | Today that interior decoration forms part of the museum itself , rather than acting merely as a backdrop to the works of art on display . |
| 8 | On the other hand , rather than move away from an area where similar firms operate , some firms may consider that it is in their own particular interest to move into such a location . |
| 9 | And the Friar was somewhere in the forest visiting an acquaintance ; he had decided to do that rather than sit here in the young sun and sleep . |
| 10 | In this garden annuals and bedding are used particularly well as they are dotted around perennials and shrubs , rather than grown together in a bedding scheme . |
| 11 | artwork on a film , changing it as required , rather than scratching away on a piece of copper clad board ! |
| 12 | Later documents will be perused rather than analysed thoroughly in the hope that any new information is revealed in the process . |
| 13 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 14 | Mitch 's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire . |
| 15 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 16 | We have also fundamentally changed our manufacturing philosophy rather than manufacture here in the UK and sell abroad , we now , on the whole , manufacture where our markets are . ’ |
| 17 | Nursing care should embrace the physical , psychological , social and educational needs of the patient , rather than focusing purely on the break in the skin surface . |
| 18 | A sociological perspective implies exploring the relationship between what is perceived as ‘ good ’ ( or ‘ healthy ’ ) and ‘ bad ’ ( or ‘ unhealthy ’ ) , rather than focussing exclusively on the latter at the expense of the former . |
| 19 | Is there evidence of the scheme becoming more of a predictive tool and aid to decision making rather than working primarily in an administrative function ? |
| 20 | There are obviously more overheads when the client group is geographically dispersed rather than grouped together in a home . |
| 21 | This in turn led to the arm and gun junction boxes being redesigned horizontally next to each other rather than grouped centrally at the front . |
| 22 | On the menu bar are Search for finding articles quickly rather than scrolling manually through the word list , View to find photographs , videos , maps and magazine covers and Mark for marking a place in an article and making notes . |
| 23 | And why did the band have to choose that precise moment to play a waltz so that , rather than dancing apart in the modern way , he was drawing her closer , moulding her to the lean , taut length of him ? |
| 24 | From a spy to a slimy toad and from this to a serpent Satan moves , crawling on his belly in the dust rather than standing upright in a pool of fire . |
| 25 | It is argued that political programmes have to be worked out by actors within the state , rather than emerging automatically from the ‘ needs ’ of the economic system . |
| 26 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 27 | The road began to wind rather than run straight between the dykes . |
| 28 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 29 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |