Example sentences of "[adv] than a [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East would prefer such a comprehensive approach from the community , rather than a series of bilateral arrangements . |
| 2 | Perhaps this is because his problem is not a sociological one ; he is engaged in polemic rather than social theory and his work is built around an apocalyptic vision of the future of capitalism rather than a series of questions about social phenomena . |
| 3 | Our representation of them as groups is an intellectual device for handling them , just as the people themselves use names and labels , but this does not correspond to the empirical reality which is of constant contact and flow between ‘ peoples ’ : a continuum rather than a series of separate but interlocking units . |
| 4 | Modern law , Lowi has observed , ‘ has become a series of instructions to administrators rather than a series of commands to citizens ’ ( 1979:106 , italics omitted ) . |
| 5 | Courts , if they had been called upon to investigate people 's employment protection rights , might well have deemed some of them to have had one continuous employment relationship broken only by shortages of work rather than a series of different relationships . |
| 6 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 7 | But er given the er the position in terms of there is a policy statement in the structure plan which refers to the A sixty one and A fifty nine relief roads , er if it 's going to be helpful then e as well as the er A fifty nine , then it would be appropriate to show the western relief road rather than a series of er of arrows , to similarly show that I think we 'd have to show that as two st two er stars or arrows rather than one because we would need to er indicate both to the north and south of the A fifty nine . |
| 8 | The possibilities of observing the communicative interaction of more than one ape is certainly something of a methodological breakthrough but it is a far cry from the use of language , observable in very young children , in which the exchange of information rapidly becomes an end in itself , rather than a means of problem solving , admittedly of a high order , which we know to exist in animals anyway . |
| 9 | They see it as a mechanism whereby some exploit others rather than a means of furthering collective goals . |
| 10 | Educational policy frequently becomes confused with social policy , as can be seen , for example , in the way that educational integration can come to be viewed as a sometimes misguided way of caring rather than a means of achieving access to society through education . |
| 11 | The penalty goal was firmly struck by Pears , rather more accurately than a series of baseline rallies in which , in current vogue , putting the ball to touch was not permissible . |