Example sentences of "than a actual [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ palace ’ originally referred to the gathering around the king , rather than an actual building . |
| 2 | ‘ The Peavey has the graphic too , ’ explains John , ‘ but with shelving controls low and high , which is better than an actual tone control . |
| 3 | Distribution problems have probably caused more deaths from starvation in recent years than an actual shortage of food . |
| 4 | The back kick is more of a thrusting kick than an actual kick in itself . |
| 5 | In his seminal study Wilderness and the American Mind , Roderick Nash makes the point that ‘ wilderness was a state of mind — a perceived rather than an actual condition of the environment . ’ |
| 6 | Toubert is doubtless correct in his criticism that Pfaff 's estimate of the income of the papacy — made on the basis of the Liber Censuum — is in fact inclusive of many " ghost monies " ; compiled over many years , rather than an actual account . |