Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three reasons may be advanced for labelling these cases as manslaughter rather than murder . |
| 2 | Many of the orders were based on over-optimistic plans for expansion rather than the replacement of existing aircraft . |
| 3 | However , such a procedure is not always suitable for explanatory research since , in this case , the aim is to achieve sufficient cases for analysis rather than a representative sample of some population . |
| 4 | Much of the debate has related to reducing waiting times for surgery rather than for outpatient appointments . |
| 5 | They constitute agendas for research rather than a collection of findings and substantiated theories of social life . |
| 6 | It recommended the establishment of an independent body to review fees and also that theses fees should be seen as guidelines for negotiation rather than mandatory rates . |
| 7 | The desire of some parties for justice rather than finality fuels challenges to decisions ; parties whose challenges fail wish to sue the expert ; and the poorly defined boundary with arbitration provides material for disputes about disputes . |
| 8 | The rationale of virtual-memory systems is that they can allocate memory on the basis of the actually observed demands for storage rather than on the potential , or worst case estimates , for the execution of a program . |
| 9 | This also helps the printers with the positioning if you are supplying the images as artwork rather than treating them electronically . |
| 10 | The Party of European Socialists is constructing a European programme for jobs , growth and recovery to be channelled toward employment , intensive areas of growth , to tackle the pattern and distribution of work , to increase opportunities for employment rather than re-cycling unemployment and all of this to recognize that growth alone will not be enough . |
| 11 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Critics of the government 's drive for efficiency claim that it is motivated more by considerations of cost rather than of value for money or quality of service provided . |
| 14 | Pollution control work , then , is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression . |
| 15 | I shall argue in Chapter 4 that most of the adolescent Creole users are best treated as second dialect speakers of Creole rather than second language learners . |
| 16 | I am , however , suggesting that many significant economies of scale have been realised at the level of the large enterprise comprising a number of units of production rather than at plant , or operating unit , level . |
| 17 | Obviously , not all wines or beers have the same alcohol content , and a half pint of an extra strength lager , of 6% alcohol , for example , will equal 2 units of alcohol rather than 1 unit . |
| 18 | The horizontal axis is now calibrated in units of beta rather than the standard deviation of expected returns . |
| 19 | The detection of insider dealing has increased ( although the conviction rate is still poor ) , and this is likely to be a reflection of better channels of detection rather than any upsurge in the problem as previously it was not a criminal offence ( and in some circles was regarded as a perk of the job ) . |
| 20 | Previously , from the time of the late Roman emperors to the late Middle Ages , coins had borne representations of rulers , but these were only generic images of royalty rather than individual portraits . |
| 21 | The percentage of the population which attends live performances of music more than very occasionally is very small . |
| 22 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 23 | In this situation production responds to the demands of marketing rather than the other way round . |
| 24 | He offered the suggestion that the universities were ‘ subject-orientated ’ and that the role of the polytechnics should be to prepare people ‘ to enter sectors of activity rather than extending the availability of subject-orientated courses of a highly specialist kind ’ . |
| 25 | But where such mutuality is non-existent ; where through some personal need ( based in earlier life and relationships ) the woman finds her greatest satisfactions in motherhood rather than in marriage ; where male inadequacy sees neglect in anything but total attention ; or where circumstances exist in which addition to the family unduly diminishes the expression of sexual love between two partners : personal and sexual dissonance is likely to arise , which will lead to further marital rifts , which will themselves militate against sexual happiness … and so on in a vicious spiral . |
| 26 | This should enable the purchaser to identify and deal with risks before contract rather than seeking redress from the vendor after completion . |
| 27 | Granted that there is always an advantage in having liquid funds available , if the spread is low enough customers may choose to hold large volumes of funds on deposit rather than repay outstanding borrowing . |
| 28 | For example , Lloyd 's Register surveyors invariably decline to be nominated as experts to determine technical disputes during construction , for this very reason ; and the parties usually refer disputes to arbitration rather than expert determination . |
| 29 | Eisler traces our prehistoric origins back to a goddess-worshipping people , for whom ‘ feminine ’ values of nurturing and sharing were revered , and who based their relationships on partnership rather than domination . |
| 30 | Analyses comparing rates of non-smoking among study groups at each follow up were repeated for non-smokers at baseline rather than never smokers . |