Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco 's failure to assist them undoubtedly contributed to that result and had been calculated in political rather than exclusively military terms . |
| 2 | Nor did the Socialists abandon political appointments ; indeed , the growing number of party activists occupying senior management posts in public enterprises ( see Diario 16 , 30 January 1985 ) illustrated the government 's belief that the introduction of its policies of commercialism was an operation demanding political rather than purely managerial skill . |
| 3 | I had successfully entered , at seventeen , precocious , and without a standard , the market of a profession which was , at the time I stormed it , financially profitable rather than intellectually exacting . |
| 4 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 5 | Because you 're not , although you 're using the power space , the power er er of the production line or equipment , they might not be , that might not be what you 're making , you 're just using that kit and you need the supplier of that kit to bring an engineer in and you need to get a part of it , but you want control of that rather than just waiting on a supplier to do it for you . |
| 6 | In fact , as the winter wore on , she felt grateful rather than otherwise . |
| 7 | The key is to keep the fish just warm to avoid over-heating , and to veer towards a too solid rather than too oily mixture . |
| 8 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 9 | When anthropologists study facets of their own society their vision seems to become distorted by prejudices which derive from private rather than public experience . |
| 10 | Although the common toad Bufo bufo is one of the most familiar of animals , surprisingly little is known about it , and much of the knowledge we do have is anecdotal rather than scientifically proven — hence the value of a recent study spanning the UK and Sweden . |
| 11 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 12 | And so there are still to be found Latinists who think that the hilarious mistranslations in his Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) were inadvertent rather than mischievously deliberate . |
| 13 | Although the distribution of rural population is no longer synonymous with agricultural employment , most people live in the same locality as their place of employment , and so this chapter considers population and employment as contiguous rather than necessarily related phenomena . |
| 14 | The dangers of excessive alcohol are perhaps more obvious and the real problem here is that the effect is cumulative rather than merely temporary . |
| 15 | Is there not some call on judges to be just a little a a little more respectful perhaps when they 're they 're dealing with cases like this rather than as flippant as he |
| 16 | It was a face that was interesting rather than classically handsome , she thought , staring blankly at him . |
| 17 | Indeed , this result is an irresistible inference from the acceptance of the tort of intimidation : if it is a tort by A against C to threaten a wrong to B if B continues to deal with C it is hard to see why it should not be equally tortious to inflict harm on C by committing that wrong rather than merely threatening it . |
| 18 | Purcell thought highly enough of this little improvement to write it into his own song-book as an emendation : so it is scarcely conceivable that he would have allowed the original , unimproved version to go into a score being copied under his own supervision for a revival — especially given that the effect of the improvement itself was theatrical rather than primarily musical . |
| 19 | Within the cochlea , for example , it has been shown that there are endings that respond preferentially to sounds of high rather than low pitch . |
| 20 | Price is directly related to size , and comparisons should always be made by the m 2 rather than simply between individual rugs . |
| 21 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 22 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 23 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 24 | Ramsay picked his words with care , for he had rehearsed this more than once . |
| 25 | For many parents there is n't time to do this more than once a week or so , but it can be a rewarding time . |
| 26 | Not a bad idea to remind them of this more than once during the development of an estate ; and remember , acting for either seller or buyer , that on the granting of a long lease of a flat a plan is essential . |
| 27 | Angela said : ‘ We have made it clear more than once that this matter could be sorted out if they would just sit down and talk , family to family . |
| 28 | The unit general manager responsible for that hospital has made it clear more than once that if additional baby heaters were needed they would be purchased out of the hospital budget . ’ |
| 29 | The end credits inform us that the majority of the company were wounded , some more than once , and two killed . |
| 30 | Hundreds of callers offered information and 43 names were suggested , some more than once . |