Example sentences of "[adv] than [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover it was a complex issue , rather than simply splitting opinion on party lines . |
| 2 | In this market context , competitive advantage hinges on achieving an optimal balance between the efficiency and responsiveness of work organization , rather than simply maximizing scale economies . |
| 3 | Rather than simply consuming pop ( which makes clever little references to its commodity status ) we should look to music that consumes US . |
| 4 | But rather than simply treading water , the big man has put his stock in the new material — which is more relevant than nostalgic . |
| 5 | S -adenosylhomocysteine , a SAM analogue lacking the S -methyl group , and with a neutral rather than positively charged sulphur atom , binds to the repressor but does not affect its affinity for the operator ( T. McNally , personal communication ) . |
| 6 | As this happens equity is sacrificed as purchasing power rather than clinically diagnosed need determines which patients should be treated . |
| 7 | Additional priorities must be to encourage the players to express some individual flair and support those who are prepared to have a go rather than just retain possession which Scotland did achieve against Samoa for long enough . |
| 8 | But the first computers that can learn by discovery are with us ; the Fifth Generation computers in Japan ‘ understand ’ rather than just process information . |
| 9 | But most important the councils should listen to and take notice of those who have a track record of work on racial harassment , rather than just implementing paper policies . |
| 10 | Some recent models even incorporate an integral filter which is intended to clarify the water rather than just catch debris . |
| 11 | An emergency resolution was passed which urged the government to target criminal justice resources into preventative programmes rather than just extending custody for young offenders . |
| 12 | However , a child who forms attachments from a young age with a wide group of people , rather than just close family , feels less insecure than a baby who has been close to only one or two people , so try to introduce her to as many people as possible , right from the beginning . |
| 13 | I think they 're trying to set up er nought , their own things rather than just joining petrol stations . |
| 14 | ‘ Rather than just having e-mail messages , people often want to send files around , spreadsheet files for instance . |
| 15 | Rather than just spend money on curing the symptom by , say , building an ‘ end of pipe ’ pollution abatement plant , we 're increasinglyseeking to solve the problem at source within the process . |
| 16 | Rather than finally rejecting difference as the central term of critical value , this criticism instead relocates value onto the difference of consumers : it is in consumption rather than in the text that originality and creativity are to be found . |
| 17 | This may explain why two trials by the European Cooperative Crohn 's Disease group , both using a protein hydrolysate diet containing oligopeptides rather than solely free amino acids , have shown that enteral feeding is inferior to drug treatment with corticosteroids and sulphasalazine . |
| 18 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 19 | In this case , the financial reports are imposing norms rather than passively providing information for users ' benefit . |
| 20 | Many commentators have suggested that eurobond market intermediaries have at least historically been characterised by a managerial objective of growth maximisation , rather than short run profit maximisation . |
| 21 | P-E 's long term contract business , considered important for the company 's longer term prospects rather than short term cash generation , has also done well . |
| 22 | The 1957 White Paper confirmed in their minds that the decline in British power had reached a point where the concerted pressure of world opinion , particularly in the United Nations , would throw the door wide open for them to walk through into their heritage of immediate rather than prudently timed independence . |
| 23 | Beyond that , it is not clear whether any and , if so , what restrictions operate as a matter of fiduciary law to prevent firms from excluding or modifying their fiduciary duties , particular where no prior fiduciary relationship existed and the contract seeks to define the duties of the parties rather than explicitly exclude liability . |
| 24 | There are also dangers in suggesting that writers such as John Locke influenced attitudes , rather than merely reflecting changing attitudes , away from a punitive to a more liberal approach to children . |
| 25 | Civilization , that is , human societies , goes further than just linking family groups together through a set of work tasks that they have in common . |
| 26 | Although there are no rugby stadia in the country of sufficient capacity , there are several soccer venues which could more than adequately serve rugby 's needs . |
| 27 | Wolves in fact have done more than most to provide evidence that the game is ridding itself of violence . |
| 28 | ‘ As the lady Anne is aware — and to her chagrin — I have more than once expressed admiration of her companion . |
| 29 | One round of voting on June 27 was annulled as fraudulent after a number of deputies attempted to vote more than once using voting cards entrusted to them by absent colleagues . |
| 30 | And though he more than once declared suicide a selfish act , he must also have foreseen that there are certain states of mind in which sensitive consideration of others becomes impossible . |