Example sentences of "than [prep] a [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a balance Chair , and , and hence the fact that we 've knocked it off as an efficiency saving rather than as a reduction in service . |
| 2 | On the cross Christ himself came to be portrayed as a man in agony rather than as a God in majesty . |
| 3 | By way of contrast , the British shop steward reacts to , and is more prepared to challenge , management decisions , regarding himself less as an agent of regulation than as a tactician in pursuit of tangible , if elusive improvements for the rank and file' ( ibid. , p. 185 ) . |
| 4 | Two senior editors of Novi Sad television news were suspended on April 8 , 1990 , for giving greater prominence in a news bulletin to coverage of an election rally in Croatia by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ — the eventual winners in the election — see p. 37381 ) than to a rally in Belgrade attended by Milosevic commemorating the 175th anniversary of the second Serbian uprising against the Turks . |
| 5 | Here she was prompted less by social conscience than by a delight in drama . |