Example sentences of "[adv] than [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just like in the bad old days , it was coincidence rather than cleverness that saved the Doctor . |
| 2 | And do you think that 's really going to be an application , as it were , that will appeal more to the lay person rather than person that uses a computer for business or professionally one way or another ? |
| 3 | Instead of her more bellicose approach , the somewhat more neutralist stance of the West Germans loomed larger in NATO , and indeed it was Bonn rather than London that seemed to have the closer relationship with Washington in 1989 . |
| 4 | Chair , can I suggest that some of the people who are actually involved in this are actually asked themselves rather than agencies that might be working with them , because I think that , that most of the , the sort of people we 're talking about are actually very sensitive . |
| 5 | It seems that male spatial arrangements are contingent upon those of females , who are themselves dispersed in relation to dietary ecology , and yet in this species it is females rather than males that move between social units . |
| 6 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 7 | It is words rather than meanings that are problematic ; in fact , the point of reform is to ensure that words express what speakers ‘ really mean ’ rather than unfortunately conveying something speakers do not intend . |
| 8 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 9 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 10 | Deviant motivations , for example , are still taken as given ; it is conformity rather than deviance that remains problematic . |
| 11 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 12 | It was his parents rather than John that helped them financially . |
| 13 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 14 | It is events , however , rather than personalities that generate change quickest in Whitehall . |
| 15 | But it 's as Hirst 's sidekick rather than replacement that Bright can see his Wednesday career taking off . |
| 16 | Since then it is events rather than governments that have been in command . |
| 17 | A real beauty of a goal from Les Robinson … there 'll not be many better than that this season but it 's quantity rather than quality that counts and within two minutes it was one-all … |
| 18 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 19 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 20 | it was strength more than endurance that took Gloucester 's Lorraine Shaw in to the final of the hammer competition at the three A's championship at the weekend … she finished third with a throw of 51.76 … |
| 21 | Duns is a grimly handsome little town and the only place nearer than Selkirk that has a radio studio . |
| 22 | Schooling fish , therefore , swim faster as well as more safely than fish that swim alone . |
| 23 | Triton SCI will offer bridges to VME-based systems and is claimed to be five times faster than systems that will be built around the emerging Futurebus+ standard . |
| 24 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |