Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , about eight per cent of those who changed their minds with additional disclosure changed in the Wrong' direction : they made a blind or confused choice rather than a rational decision . |
| 2 | He travelled up to Windermere to view the property and had exploratory discussions with Edgar , who indicated that he wished to retire but preferred to sell his hotel to an individual or small group rather than a national chain . |
| 3 | In lieu of an overarching policy of universal nursery education , within which special needs would have an acknowledged place , we have the hotchpotch of provision with which practitioners are only too familiar , and which mostly reflects local and regional idiosyncrasies rather than a planned and coherent structure based on policy . |
| 4 | This too was a small-scale and short-lived experiment rather than a serious innovation . |
| 5 | Maybe the age of leisure will turn out to be a brief and unsustainable interlude rather than a new dawn after all . |
| 6 | Some women would want to link this with the consolidation of black consciousness and with the reclassification of lesbianism as a political and sexual choice rather than a congenital affliction . |
| 7 | There has also been an increased recognition of the need for a multicultural curriculum in all schools to enable pupils to recognise diversity in societal and global issues more than a limited ethnocentric approach might permit . |
| 8 | He was determined to regain what his father had lost , and raise the French monarchy from its abasement after Poitiers ; but his methods were to be diplomacy , subversion , and limited campaigns rather than a great battle in which , as he appreciated , the French were liable to be defeated yet again . |
| 9 | The emphasis is on opening and closing legs rather than a bend and straightening of the legs . |
| 10 | While it appears beyond dispute that ‘ a massive immigration and a strong economic upsurge ( meant that ) all sections of the economy profited from this growth ’ , Paris nevertheless remained during the whole of the period an area in which ‘ hand industry ’ predominated ; it was a capital associated with the production of articles of high fashion and luxury goods rather than a centre of heavy industry . |
| 11 | A hidden and forgotten problem rather than a small one . |
| 12 | He described Cam Ranh port as a ‘ material and technical supply point ’ used jointly by Vietnamese and Soviet ships rather than a ‘ naval base in the accepted sense with a full infrastructure ’ . |
| 13 | In a sense this is what it is to become and experienced teacher rather than a novice . |