Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council faces a £4.5m. bill for repairs to the centre after defective mortar was found in the outer walls more than a year ago . |
| 2 | A senior clerk takes a commission of between five and ten per cent of the brief fees rather than a salary , which can exceed the earnings of many of the barristers in the chambers . |
| 3 | I hope that my painting stands beyond the moment ; I want it to be about the human situation rather than a fleeting moment in time or a specific view ’ . |
| 4 | It may be that the simplest change in the theory , given awkward observations , would be a general structural change at the very centre rather than a whole series of alterations further out . |
| 5 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |
| 6 | This may be also true of studies which have used a series of slides as the arousing stimuli rather than a single one . |
| 7 | Yet while the ultimate decision on your future involves a fair assessment of the industrial realities rather than a precise medical diagnosis , the quotation above shows the importance of seeking a doctor 's prognosis . |
| 8 | Mr Kinnock also sprang a surprise by restoring Ms Clare Short to the front bench less than a year after she resigned as spokeswoman on Employment in an acrimonious row with Mr Kinnock over the party 's stance on the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 9 | In the private service sector , where trade unions are less active , temporary workers often do not receive the same level of fringe benefits as permanent workers ; and in some organisations and industries they are paid at a lower rate — for example the statutory minimum rather than a higher , collectively bargained rate — than are comparable permanent workers [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 10 | The company claims that its system software and hardware is functionally compatible with applications software written for the Macintosh — only some of the most widely used ones have been tested , and the company provides a list of these — but it uses OSF/Motif as the graphical interface rather than a direct copy of the Mac screen . |
| 11 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 12 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 13 | There is an argument for retaining a four mile annulus for the area of search for the new settlement rather than a two mile , because of the rigidity which at present applies to the distance of the outer boundary of the greenbelt from York City Centre . |
| 14 | By dumping the new arrivals less than a year later , BZW , chaired now as then by Sir Martin Jacomb , has shown up its American adventure for the opportunistic grab it was . |
| 15 | Any thermal energy is shared by the whole lattice rather than a single nucleus . |
| 16 | This , together with the formal dress and language of the ( largely male ) participants , gave the whole event more than a touch of courtroom formality . |
| 17 | Carried out every ten years since 1801 , with the exception of 1941 , it has most of the characteristics of the longitudinal survey except , of course , that it is a study of the whole population rather than a sample . |