Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the state as ; rising from an explicit or implicit contract among men to put themselves under ; single sovereign ( which could be a parliament rather than a king ) which would establish peace among them . |
| 2 | Although it is a Kunsthalle rather than a collection , Hamish Fulton 's wall text ‘ Rock Fall Echo Dust ’ decorates the entrance hall and Richard Wentworth and Swiss artist , Anne Sauser-Hall , are making small sculptures to be installed discreetly on the stairwell . |
| 3 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 4 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 5 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |
| 6 | Strictly , this latter should be called a skill description rather than a task description . |
| 7 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 8 | In the absence of a clear candidate of the right next time , some MPs suspect that Mr Tebbit may be manoeuvring to become a serious outside runner rather than a king-maker . |
| 9 | The reddish-fair head , Celtic-Roman , with chiselled features and long , indifferent lapis eyes , belonged to a statue rather than a man . |
| 10 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 11 | When he says Truth is God he is really making a confession of faith rather than a statement in the indicative mood . |
| 12 | Stencil is the personification of a procrustean function rather than a character in any realistic sense , partly a parody of such questing scholars as Robert Graves , partly an imitation of the obsessed protagonist in Nabokov 's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight . |
| 13 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 14 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 15 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 16 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was a vote of faith in Draper 's musical judgement rather than a demonstration of Branson 's own , but the decision was the right one . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the decade , opening a bank account was a privilege rather than a right , and customers organised their financial lives round the inflexible routine of their local branch . |
| 20 | The making of a claim was a privilege rather than a right , and claimants would therefore be expected to heed whatever rules had been in force . |
| 21 | So that 's er I mean you probably know we do , I do a talk erm I call it a story rather than a talk , and I say I hope it 's interesting as a story . |
| 22 | Some , including soff , tief , cruff are identifiable as of Creole origin by virtue of their pronunciation , ( and in the case of tief also by its use as a verb rather than a noun ) which distinguishes them from their Standard counterparts soft , thief , scruff(y) , which have no special meaning within youth culture . |
| 23 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |
| 24 | Now Livingston appears to be fighting a losing cause , especially since he is relying on a scientific defence rather than a claim the BAF testing procedure was suspect . |
| 25 | He found one that took money rather than a card and dialled a number . |
| 26 | You know might be part of a actually a continuant rather than a vowel . |
| 27 | This is partly because of the structure of catholic nationalism in the Southern state and partly because the national unity sought by significant numbers of Northern catholic nationalists is still on the basis of the reversal of protestant — loyalist hegemony rather than a power compromise . |
| 28 | The development of programme structures was seen as an additional administrative responsibility rather than a substitute for previous ones . |
| 29 | The other staff member co-ordinated the feedback , making it plain that , for these purposes , the repetition of points could be taken as evidence of the strength of shared experience rather than a lack of incisiveness on the part of the spokespersons . |
| 30 | Change became an opportunity rather than a threat . |