Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BEAUTIFUL , flexible sounds , delicately turned phrases , and the sort of energy which skips rather than strides — the King 's Consort at the Queen 's Hall reminded us that civilisation is not entirely destroyed . |
| 2 | Some years ago , W. G. Hoskins argued that the Domesday Book entries for Devon referred to hamlets and farmsteads rather than villages , and that any particular vill comprised a whole series of villein farms . |
| 3 | The major difficulty here is the failure to consider the relationship between s17 ( where property passing is linked to contract rather than conveyance ) and s62(4) of SGA 1979 . |
| 4 | That phrase is read narrowly to convict the accused of handling rather than theft , handling being a more serious offence than theft . |
| 5 | The main disadvantage of a Schedule E income tax charge is that it arises before the managers realise any cash from their shares to pay the tax , and that the benefit of indexation , which would apply were the gains to be subject to capital gains tax rather than income tax , will not be available . |
| 6 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 7 | Because hyoscine may be a significant factor contributing to the tachycardia , sparing rather than routine use of this agent is advisable . |
| 8 | On the subject of safety , do n't worry ; most cases of electrocution by guitar have been down to abusage rather than usage . |
| 9 | The length of time required for a solid to flow rather than fracture is known as its rheidity and the type of flow produced is termed rheid flow . |
| 10 | Patients , particularly women who are conditioned from childhood to be accepting rather than questioning , are given the sense that they must n't try to invade medical territory . |
| 11 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 12 | The European Council approved a growth initiative , with new lending by the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) for infrastructure projects and the creation of a new European Investment Fund , which would direct money towards loan guarantees rather than loans . |
| 13 | To some extent the private ‘ second economy ’ ( accounting for as much as 25 per cent of GNP ) circumvents the formal , official pecking order , but there as well , influence rather than money is what confers wealth . |
| 14 | On high quality developments , therefore , it is sometimes advantageous to leave the roads in private ownership to provide a rural feel , with grass verges rather than kerbs . |
| 15 | Conclusions about coping responses which have a protective effect against a wide range of events are more easily obtained when the events are likely to be associated with acute anxiety and fear rather than depression ( e.g. Jaremko , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | All of this is a testimonial to the belief that when the emphasis is placed on the practical experiences of individuals and communities rather than on ideologies , and when the grassroots leadership of people is developed rather than theories and constitutions , then workable solutions can be developed which are adapted for both local and the national situation by those people who have to put these solutions into practice at the sharp end of the stick . |
| 17 | Many companies refuse to invest less than £500,000 in any one company , partly because the smaller companies are regarded as higher risk . |
| 18 | Generally , records sell better than books , and publishers want to tap into that larger market . |
| 19 | If a manufacturer buys in pepperoni to use as part of the topping for this pizza , he does not have to list the ingredients in that pepperoni as long as the pepperoni constitutes less than 25% of the weight of the total pizza . |
| 20 | It is not considered that rucksacks designed to carry less than 10kg will benefit from the new hipbelt , but even the modest capacity Hot Series will be more comfortable with the new type of shoulder straps . |
| 21 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 22 | Some communicate better than others . |
| 23 | Fundamental science was a casualty of the ‘ period of stagnation ’ — it got less than 9% of Soviet spending on science in 1988 . |
| 24 | Ministers ' remuneration had improved with the century : in 1851 a Primitive Methodist minister with three children received £71 a year and Baptists generally received less than £80 ; within Congregationalism the divergence was too great to allow for any average figure . |
| 25 | RISC has so far managed to penetrate less than 2% of the market … |
| 26 | ‘ I want to issue a challenge to Michael Fallon : will he explain why he believes people in Darlington should earn less than £3.40 a hour when as a government minister he earned £1,000 a week . ’ |
| 27 | Of this the donor receives less than $1,000 and may make as little as $250 . |
| 28 | As most of the SO 2 cloud is converted to sulphate by September , the perturbations of the photochemical balance of O 3 are substantially reduced at this time compared with July ; O 3 production through cycle I now represents less than 10% of the O 3 production in the mid-stratosphere ( Fig. 2 b ) , and oxygen photolysis is reduced only by about 10% in the lower stratosphere ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 29 | This combined number of fewer than 300 audit firms represents less than 3% of the total number registered . |
| 30 | represents less than 60% of the value at risk , we should obtain a full statement from the insured to establish how this has arisen . |