Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They constitute agendas for research rather than a collection of findings and substantiated theories of social life . |
| 2 | But this was an excuse for confrontation rather than a cause . |
| 3 | Cute , but I 'd say the effect was of unity rather than a two-sided battle . |
| 4 | For the first time , money purchase schemes have been allowed to contract out ( i.e. pension schemes that depend on the outcome of investments rather than a formula based on contributions ) . |
| 5 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 6 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 7 | When he says Truth is God he is really making a confession of faith rather than a statement in the indicative mood . |
| 8 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 9 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 10 | But in Stephen Jameson 's performance he looks like Beckett 's Pozzo or a Daily Worker cartoon of a bloated capitalist : bounced around the stage at one point like a rubber doll , he becomes a figure from a comedy of humours rather than a semi-Chekhovian fantasia . |
| 11 | When we consider that a typical input/output operation is thousands or millions of times slower than a typical internal operation ( such as the addition of two numbers ) , and that there may be other tasks to which the computer could turn its attention while such an operation is going on , then we can see scope for redesigning the computer in this area . |
| 12 | Travelling at over 100,000 mph — dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet — it would vapourise on impact , excavating a vast crater hundreds of miles across and filling the atmosphere with scalding steam and rock vapour . |
| 13 | One example given of a " dream " in this state of relaxed wakefulness reads more like a fantasy of wish-fulfilment rather than a sleeping dream account , although others were remarkably " dreamlike " . |
| 14 | Røst is actually a small group of islets rather than a single island , and a haven for birds in the spring . |
| 15 | Asquith 's 1915 government was only halfway to coalition ; it was in fact a coalition of parties rather than a coalition of men , and it was run so as to maximize continuity . |
| 16 | Again , it must be remembered , the courts exercise a power of review rather than a power of appeal . |
| 17 | Carol had found my Sainsbury 's bag of booze faster than a sniffer dog could have . |
| 18 | The segmentation should be a consequence of recognition rather than a means to it . |
| 19 | Substitution of the to infinitive gives a somewhat different impression : the events seem to be evoked in a much more resultative fashion — as the fact of having been made to scream , the state of Byron 's feelings — that is , as an object of reflection rather than a recall of actual experience . |
| 20 | ’ It was a gesture of bravado rather than a serious business proposition . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | War in Henry V is a test of kingship rather than a subject in its own right . |
| 23 | We sought to investigate the hypothesis that episodes of spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux cause reflex UOS relaxations , which may be the mechanism of regurgitation rather than a deficiency of basal UOS tone . |
| 24 | Too often there is a confusion between a service oriented definition of needs rather than a problem-oriented one ( Goldberg , 1987 , p. 608 ) . |
| 25 | It is an expression of alliance between groups of kin rather than a short-term arrangement between two private individuals . |
| 26 | The welcoming committee is already at the landing site , the only problem is they greet you with a hail of lead rather than a red carpet . |
| 27 | If concessive holists are to provide a solution to the problem of holism rather than a mere rule of thumb , they must justify their claim that holist and individualist explanations are , if not complementary , at least capable of coexistence . |
| 28 | Apple 's Macintosh coupled with the new generation of page printers made the process possible at a cost within the reach of tens of thousands of individuals rather than a few hundreds . |
| 29 | Rapid population growth was argued to be a result of poverty rather than a cause ( and causes were identified elsewhere in the relationship between developed capitalist and underdeveloped countries ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |