Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 2 | Mr Heseltine had accepted the Monopolies and Mergers Commission recommendation that the merger should not be allowed , because it would give the board more than a 50 per cent share of the market . |
| 3 | The move is seen as a spur to get IBM working on the case rather than a serious threat : rivals say they have n't been approached to propose alternatives . |
| 4 | With the election less than a fortnight away , I could hardly believe my luck . |
| 5 | But Darren Whitehouse faced a charge of possessing the drug rather than a supplying charge because police believed he was lying to protect his mother . |
| 6 | Yep , forsaking the toilets of Blighty for the , erm , toilets of Noo Yawk ( Noo Yawk 's legendary CBGB 's actually — Ed ) , KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION are now busy shifting , erm , kitchen units across the pond faster than a microwave can dry a poodle . |
| 7 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 8 | These various statements amounted to straws in the wind rather than a fully defined policy for ending the war . |
| 9 | Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing . |
| 10 | External Ba 2+ was left out so that uptake would not depolarize the cell more than a few mV from its -90mV resting potential . |
| 11 | Thus the NMR structure must be considered as a description of the fold rather than a high-resolution structure . |
| 12 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | Throughout 1985–86 North continued shipments of arms to Iran in a series of complex deals involving sleazy arms dealers , shady middlemen , Swiss numbered bank accounts , suitcases stuffed with dollar bills , and all the trappings of dishonest behaviour one would associate with drug smugglers and the Mafia rather than a member of the White House staff . |
| 14 | At a meeting with the consortium more than a week ago , Caledonian directors said they would help only if they were given a controlling interest in the pit . |
| 15 | As a marketing ploy , apparently nothing moves Britain 's top weekly colour mag off the shelves faster than a besotted star mum cradling a baby . |
| 16 | Bilingual children should be considered an advantage in the classroom rather than a problem . |
| 17 | The first half of 1988 showed an increase of that loss to £12m , but as Marsden points out , you need to take a yearly view of the business rather than a 6-month snapshot so such figures can be misleading . |
| 18 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 19 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 20 | And it is still if , not when though in this article I am assuming a working Tory majority in the Commons rather than a hung Parliament , which would change everything . |
| 21 | Despite its beauty , many would think superior to Morris in its majesty , it may well cost the collector less than a third of the price of the Kelmscott Chaucer . |
| 22 | A story neglected sometimes damages the truth more than a story mistold does . |
| 23 | She 'd told him she wanted a break from her own very successful career — that had been bending the truth more than a little , but taking over the club , putting her own life on hold for a little while , had seemed a small price to pay for her father 's health . |
| 24 | It may be argued that fundholding allows us to discharge these responsibilities ourselves in respect of our own practice population , and that we are capable of doing the job better than a large purchasing authority . |
| 25 | The line-up is now down to a five-piece , guitarist Angelo Bruschini having quit the group less than a month ago . |
| 26 | She sold the place more than a year ago . |
| 27 | Sir : While tending to agree with the Archbishop of Canterbury 's social critique as reported in your paper ( 'Runcie attack on ‘ Pharisees ’ revives rift with Tories ' , 2 October ) , I find his reference to the Pharisees more than a little unfortunate . |
| 28 | With the water less than a foot deep in each hull , he squeezed his way round the motor cycle to join Mariana on the settee . |
| 29 | For the rest , it is merely letters after the name rather than a title before it . |
| 30 | The fire , driven by the wind , spread out from the Drum faster than a man could walk . |