Example sentences of "than [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion . |
| 2 | Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish , whose joy at an overdue win was soured by an injury to England goal machine Alan Shearer , said referee Keith Hackett seemed more concerned with the back-pass law than stamping out the tackle from behind . |
| 3 | Rather than rooting out a selection of screwdrivers before going away from base , the pack and ‘ T ’ handle were thrown in . |
| 4 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 5 | But by the same token , the girl should have had more sense than to walk along a road like that in the dark . |
| 6 | There is some argument that the UCTA is doing no more than spell out a rule about what is really voluntary acceptance , which is already in the common law ( ICI v Shatwell [ 1965 ] AC 656 ) . |
| 7 | Normally printers of this type are classified as non-impact but this version actually deposits carbon rather than burn away a layer of silvering . |
| 8 | It is therefore far better to plant a single , carefully selected plant in the chosen spot than to build up a mishmash of clashing foliage . |
| 9 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 10 | Not for the horse 's sake alone was it that carters would drive through a roadside pond , or choose to ford a stream rather than go over a bridge beside the ford . |
| 11 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 12 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 13 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |