Example sentences of "than [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This is obviously a better way of measuring recall than merely counting the number of words remembered , although it does have the disadvantage of being a less objective method since the actual wording used by a subject may be very different from that used in the passage . ) |
| 2 | Similarly , he argued , Britain should seek to create a Social Charter of its own liking , rather than merely oppose the adoption of any social charter at all . |
| 3 | This both attenuates the force of the current occupationalist attack upon the liberal education tradition and suggests that occupationalist objectives will do little more than merely dilute the quality of the education which pupils might otherwise have received . |
| 4 | This is carried out in relatively modern mercury and diaphragm electrochemical cells and consumes huge amounts of electricity — more than enough to power the city of Liverpool . |
| 5 | But cutting greenhouse emissions from transport will take more than just improving the efficiency of cars and trucks . |
| 6 | Be that as it may , we have more than once witnessed the potential of legspin in limited-overs cricket . |
| 7 | The primary schools of Oxfordshire , with their occasionally romantic commitments to open learning and creativity , more than once felt the lash of his tongue . |
| 8 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 9 | But the British government was still involved in the reproduction of antagonisms in the Ulster statelet , rather than passively accepting the perpetuation of inequalities and discrimination against the catholic — nationalist minority . |
| 10 | In this context , we may recall that Althusser , rather than simply criticizing the notion of history as a totality as Foucault often tended to do , argued for the rearticulation of different histories within a decentred totality , on the assumption that history can not do without one . |
| 11 | The Council will be particularly interested in pilot proposals which further enhance the Development Programme rather than simply duplicate the work of either the 1988 pilots or central developments planned to take place during session 1988–89 . |
| 12 | Hence rather than simply investigate the ability of a tag to follow other tags , it also incorporates the ability of the tag to precede it 's successors . |