Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context . |
| 2 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 3 | True to the Romantic tradition from which this belief sprang , the imagination was valued more than the analytical intelligence , the specific more than the general , experience more than discourse , connaitre more than savoir . |
| 4 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 5 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 6 | The second group is concentrated among a particular section of the middle class — those in the private rather than the public sector , and among those who are not graduates . |
| 7 | Indeed , comparison of managerial facilities and perquisites in the public and private sectors ( such as office furnishings , secretarial support , company cars , expense accounts , etc ) suggest that ‘ it is the private rather than the public sector that offers greater possibilities for at least these kinds of non-pecuniary consumption ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1982 , p. 77 ) . |
| 8 | For example , it is predicted that certain kinds of ‘ life strategies ’ will be found most commonly in people in whom particular corresponding moods or emotions predominate , and that the more general the strategies are , the stronger their association will be with the emotional rather than the intellectual characteristics of the person . |
| 9 | Following a tradition dating from Searle ( 1975 ) , Ryan emphasises the illocutionary rather than the ontological dimension of fictionality , and devises a formula aimed to capture the essence of what she calls the " fictional transaction " . |
| 10 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 11 | ‘ Professional ’ as against ‘ amateur ’ may also have connotations of discipline , of the instrumental rather than the expressive . |
| 12 | As discrepancies may well overestimate the number of errors that actually occur in a trial ( for example , the electronic rather than the written record may be erroneous ) , the minimum estimate is that provided by retrospective completions alone — namely , 2% in the morning and 9% in the evening . |
| 13 | One simple way of describing this difference is to say that speech act theory is interested in the social rather than the cognitive aspects of language . |
| 14 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 15 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 16 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
| 17 | But this imitation of well-established exemplars is another mark of the psychotic rather than the genuine mystic . |
| 18 | The self to whose development the authors relate this process tends to be a highly individualist subjective self , of the psychological rather than the anthropological tradition , with given psychic needs . |
| 19 | Alternatively a pair can be maintained and bred in an 18″ or 24″ tank of their own , or make excellent additions to a Discus aquarium as long as this is of the planted rather than the bare type . |
| 20 | The Green Party 's policy has been described as a manifesto for the 1890's rather than the 1980's . |
| 21 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |
| 22 | Similarly , if the sex of a referent is not known , the masculine rather than the feminine form is used . |
| 23 | Rather more serious , although not , therefore , more grave , is the way in which this draws attention to the conventional rather than the real distinction between characters — especially tale-tellers — at different levels of a framed narrative . |
| 24 | He says that ‘ when the dictionary , the grammar and the style book seem to rule okay , we find the language of the street , of the bar , of the market-place , of the many rather than the few , striking back and changing our own , educated perceptions of what English really is . ’ |
| 25 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 26 | And indeed obesity is a disease of the poor rather than the rich . |
| 27 | And because higher prices would hurt the poor more than the rich , it is essential that environmental problems are not seen in isolation from social ones . |
| 28 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |
| 29 | I am afraid it is the latter rather than the former . |
| 30 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |