Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because this treatment is a holistic therapy , the person as a whole will be treated rather than a specific problem area and this treatment often involves a combination of techniques , such as dietary therapy , water treatment , hot or cold water packs and massage . |
| 2 | Will it not encourage the image of a model singing rather than a singing model ? |
| 3 | Anyone who wanted to fight a battle to keep a right to report rather than a statutory duty can forget it . |
| 4 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 5 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 6 | SCOTLAND 's preparations for the crucial World Cup qualifying tie against Malta at Ibrox on Wednesday bordered on the farcical yesterday when Rangers ' Richard Gough and Stuart McCall were forced to withdraw from Andy Roxburgh 's squad and Ally McCoist was given less than a 50-50 chance of playing . |
| 7 | A man 's voice will be heard better than a woman 's voice . |
| 8 | Mrs Hunt has said she can not understand why there was such a delay when an ambulance station is situated less than a mile from her home . |
| 9 | As a result , the slug hit Lomax low in his right side , inflicting a painful flesh wound rather than a fatal chest shot . |
| 10 | These issues implied that a CPIS should be designed rather than a manual system . |
| 11 | It has thus fared better than a small party could expect , maintaining a PS almost equal to its PV and even on occasion slightly in excess of it . |
| 12 | Mr Ryan said it was hoped to target 12 to 24 month waiting lists and eventually no one should wait longer than a year for treatment . |
| 13 | He had barely addressed more than a few brief and studiously polite words to her — and yet every fibre of her being was vibrantly aware of his magnetic , almost menacing presence . |
| 14 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 15 | The recently electrified East Coast route has proved a great success … but could such modern technology be adapted to a railway designed more than a hundred and fifty years ago ? |
| 16 | Judicial decisions gradually shifted vicarages from the second category to the first ; before the end of Edward 's reign , royal judges had deemed more than a score of advowsons of perpetual vicarages to be lay fee . |
| 17 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 18 | Detectives say more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of vehicles and parts have been recovered . |
| 19 | Detectives say more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of vehicles and parts have been recovered . |
| 20 | This is certainly possible with telescopes , and one amateur in Australia , the Rev. Robert Evans , has more than a dozen discoveries to his credit . |
| 21 | During their lives , they gave work to numerous American museums , including Brooklyn , which already has more than a dozen Lowenthal pictures . |
| 22 | Mrs Chamberlin has more than a dozen and she gave me such beautiful eggs to bring home . |
| 23 | The play , incidentally , has more than a hundred musical cues . |
| 24 | Kate Howey , 18 , the world junior middleweight champion , might have won more than a bronze if she had not incurred a seven-point penalty against Marianne Charve , of France , in her semi-final . |
| 25 | A teenager who thought that he 'd won more than a hundred thousand pounds on a bet has today been told that he 'll get just seven hundred and twenty eight pounds . |
| 26 | In America the list of those who have not won more than a million seems to dwindle weekly . |
| 27 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 28 | Firemen found more than a dozen incendiary devices in the offices near Borden , Hants , used by scientists to study squirrels . |
| 29 | In 1710 Prince Eugene ordered that all soldiers found more than a hundred paces from his army on the march and more than a thousand from it when it was in camp should be hanged . |
| 30 | In a simultaneous raid at a house in Cranham , Essex , they found more than A MILLION capsules waiting to be filled with the chemically-produced drug . |