Example sentences of "than [art] traditional [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South-East and the North-West were , in fact , doing worse than the traditional problem regions of Scotland , the North , and Wales , the last of which was doing very well . |
| 2 | So far as service delivery is concerned , the gap is wider than the traditional division between medical and social needs . |
| 3 | This both pleased and hampered the trade : pleased , because oak was more expensive than the traditional elm ; hampered , as it was easier , less time-consuming and required far less skill to cover an elm coffin with baize or velvet than to spend time on french polishing . |
| 4 | There is also a polled Charolais , generally bred to be lighter boned than the traditional type , and some breeders used the Lincoln Red to introduce the polling factor . |
| 5 | The community-based approach has proved more effective in achieving change where this is indicated and is likely to be a more useful model for empowerment and self-care than the traditional type of health care approach . |
| 6 | Knowledge now is more important [ he wrote ] than the traditional land , labour , and capital , and even inputs of materials and energy . |
| 7 | When feminist psychologists examine areas of specifically female experience , they manage to value them more positively than the traditional psychology of women does . |
| 8 | A few new houses were under construction , using breeze-blocks rather than the traditional brick . |
| 9 | Though pedestrians and cyclists are to be ‘ encouraged to use the facilities provided for them ’ there do not appear to be any facilities other than the traditional footpath . |
| 10 | Hysteroscopy and biopsy are more time consuming and expensive than the traditional dilatation and curettage . |
| 11 | However , they too could be useful to an organisation 's selection procedure , since they can give more valid information than the traditional interview . |
| 12 | The stylish lines of the new Safrane , designed in-house at Renault , represent a ‘ two-and-a-half-box ’ saloon design incorporating a versatile hatchback layout rather than the traditional executive sector ‘ three-box design ’ . |
| 13 | Hence , to reflect Renaissance preoccupations adequately he has to include a wider variety of genres — and a wider variety of poets , for that matter — than the traditional canon allows . |
| 14 | Increased agricultural production was only possible by using intensive farming methods , rather than the traditional method of leaving fields fallow one year in three . |
| 15 | It is cleaner , simpler to use , and performs better than the traditional alternative , a combination of mica and ceramic paste . |
| 16 | On the evidence this production is speaking far more vividly to this generation than the traditional version . ’ |
| 17 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 18 | He invited a non-native English speaker , one who could cast his net across several disciplines and one who would agree to talk freely from notes rather than the traditional script . |
| 19 | In fact , at 190 grams , this headset weighs much less than the traditional line of Stax units . |
| 20 | HOW , the unit trust companies asked , can investors be persuaded to keep at least some of their capital in their funds rather than the traditional haven of the building society ? |
| 21 | Halifax Property Services offer much more than the traditional role of the estate agent . |
| 22 | The arrival and ambivalent status of the coordinator forced many heads to took afresh at structures and decision-making , to delegate more extensively than hitherto , and to establish more regular consultation procedures than the traditional combination of informal encounters and unstructured or semi-structured staff meetings . |
| 23 | This development , privatized using an Urban Development Grant in the early 1980s , was not originally associated with slum clearance and was actually more expensive per unit than the traditional housing being built at the same time . |
| 24 | They now grow Whitbread Goldings Variety , developed to be more resistant to wilt than the traditional East Kent type . |
| 25 | Returning to Madeira , we find that the island is catering for the demands of a new breed of tourists who wish for a more active holiday than the traditional visitor who relaxed in the comfort of the luxury hotels or lazed around the swimming pool or at the lido . |
| 26 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 27 | One was that PNP appointees were ‘ real ’ teachers , not supplies or ancillaries , and were to be treated as such , even though their roles might be more diverse than the traditional anchor of class-teaching . |
| 28 | Under the Audit Act 1983 this is more than a traditional audit . |
| 29 | The school was well equipped , too : the geography room , for instance , more like a laboratory than a traditional teaching cell . |
| 30 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |