Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of arguments is usually advanced in favour of a selected or key settlement policy for rural areas rather than a strategy of dispersed growth . |
| 2 | These procedures will need to tailored to each specific sale but a common theme will be a guideline for the submission date for indicative offers rather than a deadline . |
| 3 | With the Rule of St Benedict ( c. 550 ) , supremely , the monastic community was launched on the road of catering for ordinary people rather than a spiritual élite . |
| 4 | They treat the statistics as a topic for sociological analysis rather than a resource for theory-building . |
| 5 | La Fontaine , in her review of studies of British kinship suggests that there seems to be ‘ a preference for particular siblings rather than a general solidarity with brothers and sisters ’ ( La Fontaine , 1985 , p. 54 ) . |
| 6 | We shall look at these functions in a moment , but it will be useful to think in terms of certain places in the landscape being the foci for single activities rather than a whole range of functions . |
| 7 | A forward contract is therefore a contract for forward delivery rather than a contract for immediate or spot or cash delivery , and generally no money is exchanged between the counterparties until delivery . |