Example sentences of "than [art] actual [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition these dissociation profiles appear to demonstrate that the enhanced DNase I cleavage disappears more slowly than the actual footprint . |
| 2 | Kirkwood ( who adopts the Prague School rather than the Hallidayan definition of theme and rheme ) , suggests that placing an element in initial position will give it a certain prominence but that it will still ‘ carry less weight than the actual rheme ’ . |
| 3 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 4 | The word ‘ residual ’ is given to artefacts earlier than the actual date of the earth movement and only gives what is called a terminus post quem . |
| 5 | A number of those on income support will find that the compensatory payments to cover their 20 per cent poll tax contribution will be less than the actual contribution they have to make . |
| 6 | In many ways this moment was infinitely more exciting than the actual race itself because these qualifying laps asked so much from car and driver . |
| 7 | It is the idea of sex , rather than the actual performance , which gives them their real sexual pleasure . |
| 8 | But then all shopkeepers had to do was ring up less than the actual transaction … |
| 9 | The remaining ones ( needle return levers , jacquard , LiLi ) , are concerned more with needle selection than the actual knitting of stitches . |
| 10 | The third column , which gives a hypothetical expressive notation , demonstrates that it is longer in most instances than the actual notation allocated in column one . |
| 11 | The prospect of setting yourself up for this job is far more daunting than the actual work , and once you have overcome the inertia of thinking it out and making a start , the results more than justify the effort . |
| 12 | ‘ I think the way people wear their clothes bothers me more than the actual style of them . |
| 13 | The way the media cover abuse , they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse than the actual abuse . |
| 14 | It seems that it is the soakaway rather than the actual drain that is defective . |
| 15 | The predicted response rate , based on a combination of pretreatment factors , was significantly lower ( 35% ) than the actual response rate ( 55% ) . |
| 16 | In this respect the importance of agreement with the IMF on access to its facilities is much greater for many borrowers than the actual size of the funds provided by the Fund would appear to indicate . |
| 17 | Than the actual copying , yes . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 19 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 20 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |
| 21 | First , commercial convenience dictates that the law is frequently more concerned with the objective appearance of agreement rather than the actual fact of agreement , as was stated in an 1871 judgment : |
| 22 | The rule prohibits any person ( other than the actual bidder ) from trading ( or causing others to trade ) where he is in possession of material information relating to the tender offer which he knows or ought reasonably to know has been acquired directly or indirectly from a range of persons . |
| 23 | Nothing has been more ominous in the doctrinal shift of the 1980s than the actual hostility to this term which can now be found in Roman teaching . |
| 24 | It 's a question of how you dance round them I suspect rather than the actual pole . |
| 25 | In practice , the adherence to a clearly defined policy for fetal heart rate monitoring may be more important than the actual method itself . |
| 26 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 27 | Of course professional use is significantly more , but even than the actual period of continuous operation is deceptively low . |
| 28 | Their appearance is more worrying than the actual effect on the fish . |
| 29 | More serious than the actual material damage in Schweinfurt itself were the psychological effects of the first raids . |
| 30 | In fact it is the preservation of the ‘ form ’ of company behaviour which becomes the aim of the actor on the scene rather than the actual business achievement . |