Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] actual [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirkwood ( who adopts the Prague School rather than the Hallidayan definition of theme and rheme ) , suggests that placing an element in initial position will give it a certain prominence but that it will still ‘ carry less weight than the actual rheme ’ . |
| 2 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |
| 3 | Goodchild ( 1978 ) suggests that the number of derived polygons is more a function of boundary complexity than the actual number of polygons . |
| 4 | Distribution problems have probably caused more deaths from starvation in recent years than an actual shortage of food . |
| 5 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 6 | The back kick is more of a thrusting kick than an actual kick in itself . |
| 7 | The remaining ones ( needle return levers , jacquard , LiLi ) , are concerned more with needle selection than the actual knitting of stitches . |
| 8 | In this respect the importance of agreement with the IMF on access to its facilities is much greater for many borrowers than the actual size of the funds provided by the Fund would appear to indicate . |
| 9 | They wo n't , the burglar is more likely to seriously damage the frame than the actual lock . |
| 10 | The third column , which gives a hypothetical expressive notation , demonstrates that it is longer in most instances than the actual notation allocated in column one . |
| 11 | Any such artefact may seek either to proclaim or to hide the material used and the constraints the material has imposed upon the technological process : a mask may be thought to incorporate the spiritual properties of the wood from which it is taken ; a group of people may refuse to purchase an item known to be of seal skin ; a plastic may seek to copy a more traditional material ; the gold from which an object is made may have far greater significance than the actual form into which it has been hammered . |
| 12 | At this stage , with acceleration complete , three clock pulses have been deleted , but all the pulses have been sent to the downcounter , which therefore records a position three steps nearer to the target than the actual motor position . |
| 13 | The Nab is an excellent viewpoint , better in fact than the actual summit of Wild Boar Fell although of lower elevation . |
| 14 | Final commodity prices will fall to an even greater extent than the actual saving in carrying costs if improved transport also breaks down local monopolies . |