Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [adv] than " in BNC.

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1 These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective .
2 There are however two difficulties which render this advantage hypothetical rather than real .
3 Other computer games stocked would be at knockdown prices because they were two or three months old rather than the ‘ latest thing ’ she said .
4 No , i i you see even you use di words different now than than twe twenty years ago .
5 It was also feared that the market maker system might be by-passed by large powerful institutional investors doing negotiated deals with member firms who carry out the trades in-house rather than through market-makers .
6 Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) .
7 Under the Prime Minister 's leadership , in the last 12 months alone more than 800,000 jobs have gone and during that period the number of people in employment in Britain has gone down by 800,000 .
8 ‘ Be aware ’ does of course recommend a sensibility open rather than closed to new impressions , but even the most greedy for new experience can not embrace joy and suffering with equal fervour , there is always a bias in favour of the enjoyable .
9 The older woman seemed to find the story intriguing rather than depressing .
10 And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips .
11 And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips .
12 The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence .
13 By using the time to improve the production process , Intel will be able to make more of the chips available initially than it usually can when it launches a new part , Paul Otellini , vice-president of the company 's microprocessor group noted — a shortage of 80386s in the early days caused disenchantment with the company at many customers for the chip , who encouraged other companies to clone the chip in the hope of ensuring steady supplies .
14 The rebels — whose version of Islam is North American rather than Arabian — went to jail , and the outside world forgot about them .
15 Miss Rose-Marie , the micro-celebrity , is 35 years old rather than 29 as she claimed ;
16 They are by nature reactive rather than pro-active .
17 Plainly a lot to ask of anyone — far more than a momentary invasion of privacy , which can be bad enough — and it is an argumentative point that paradoxically makes self-sufficiency sound humble rather than arrogant .
18 ‘ They care about their promises to Anchor International more than their duty to the people , ’ he said .
19 It means that the communication might be less opportunistic and more frequent with the targets selective rather than whomever happens to be in the group .
20 Can I mention er that I 'm very disappointed that C P O's are n't coming back under the fold I understand the arguments for and against , but when you look at erm the knowledge that two of our new recruits have got , in relation , one in relation to fraud and one in relation to terrorism , it seems ironical that they 're divisional staff and ca n't go round the force giving their expertise force-wide rather than just on er a basic divisional
21 If Dennis can maintain parity in the midst of such vested interest , then the credit really should rest with McLaren International rather than the drivers , neither of whom has had an entirely blemish-free season .
22 Often a horse will try to find his balance by holding his head high rather than finding balance on his hocks .
23 There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy .
24 There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy .
25 A court martial rather than a discussion .
26 Mr Gilchrist , 52 , formerly joint managing director of Leyland Daf , told a news conference : ‘ In the last 24 hours alone more than 30 legal contracts have been finalised and signed . ’
27 In these societies marriages involve alliances between groups , often of a political character , and as such they are initiated and organized by the leaders of the groups concerned rather than by the future couple .
28 Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’
29 The figures given by Vermeij ( 1976 ) suggest that N. lapillus more than 25 mm long are safe from even large shore crabs , Carcinus maenas , and velvet swimming crabs , Liocarcinus puber , ( Table 6 ) .
30 The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization .
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