Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | specific rules set out for stock provisioning rather than directors ' estimates . |
| 2 | It is , as the title implies , a book about action research rather than all types of research . |
| 3 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 4 | The scheme is seen as work experience rather than as a ‘ parenting ’ class , but the spin-off could benefit the families of the future . |
| 5 | Designed for glide ratio rather than aerobatics , the paragliders nevertheless can teach the foil-kite designer something , just as we strongly suspect they in turn , had already learned from the Flexifoil . |
| 6 | ‘ Even as the world developed its enormous appetite for our end-products and chemical building blocks , we had this habit of building capacity faster than demand . |
| 7 | The opposite case , where the departure from the norm is in the direction of sentence complexity rather than simplicity , is illustrated in Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea : the culmination of the Old Man 's battle with the fish is related in ( for Hemingway ) unusually complex sentences , conveying a climactic frenzy of movement against the background of Hemingway 's more usual simplicity of style . |
| 8 | The government , recognizing this problem , tries to gain an overall impression of the growth of money supply rather than concentrating on one measure alone . |
| 9 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 10 | Always the man of action type rather than the deep thinker , he is a captain who leads by example ; if he showed himself rather insensitive to the needs of his bowlers , he showed his batsmen just what to do . |
| 11 | The intention is for the policeman concerned to develop a local knowledge of his area , to show a presence and develop friendly and informal contact with members of the public , although one was adamant that his role remained primarily one of crime detection rather than prevention , this being the responsibility of community relations . |
| 12 | Telephone based surveys are currently popular as a reasonable compromise , this increases the speed of data collection rather than the insight which is revealed by personal interviews . |
| 13 | It can and should be argued that most of the performance measures so far developed are , however , measures of research output rather than of administrative efficiency . |
| 14 | Flotation is important in separating particles of tin oxide less than about 40 micrometres in diameter . |
| 15 | The double glazing was to prevent the penetration of winter cold rather than noise pollution , she concluded . |
| 16 | The new space has been designed by Tim Molloy of Malone Design who has separated the gallery from the surrounding Chinese , Japanese and Chinese Export displays by manipulation of gallery lighting rather than obtrusive design elements . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that the debate centred on the concrete social consequences of divorce legislation rather than on its intrinsic morality . |
| 18 | This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture . |
| 19 | In small specimens of disk diameter less than 20 mm the spinelets are not sell developed and resemble low hemispherical granules . |
| 20 | This is a detailed sequence chart orientated more towards operator choice of actions and correspondingly relevant to the study of interface design rather than training ( Singleton , 1964 ) . |
| 21 | Mr Hamer said existing slaughterhouses were struggling to get sufficient lambs to keep existing plant operating at full capacity and that the Fortex development would be a case of job re-allocation rather than job creation . |
| 22 | Servicing private capital in this way is usually a matter of job redistribution rather than job creation . |
| 23 | However , lack of technological formulation is an apparent weakness which is supposedly compensated by creativity and improvisation of process technology rather than produce technology . |
| 24 | The dangers are no less apparent in the practical domain : they are attested in countless classrooms where teaching is confined to the transmission of textbook material rather than its exploitation for the negotiation of appropriate activities for learning . |
| 25 | We may be suffering from the concept that sex was invented by the publishers of Playboy magazine rather than God , and this needs to be dealt with . |
| 26 | Environmental change is here registered as a modification of forest composition rather than as weed-infested secondary rainforest . |
| 27 | They tightened the polyphonic weave , intensifying the element of imitation plastic rather than strict — in which all voices , usually five , participate on equal terms , and concealing the cadential seams . |
| 28 | The international company , identified principally by its policy of product extension rather than adaptation , is viewed as essentially American in origin . |
| 29 | The emphasis of the ‘ tax credit ’ would be towards a form of tax relief rather than a payment of benefit . |
| 30 | If the function is seen as the delivery of a service to carers and hence taking on the role of respite care rather than that of aiming for functional improvement then this could have import for the type of staff , ie specifically trained , ratio of staff and the drawing of expertise from other fields , ie occupational therapists . |