Example sentences of "[adv] than [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | a special kind of scanner which provides a means of reading printed characters on documents and converting them into digital codes that can be read into a computer as actual text rather than just a picture . |
| 32 | You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles . |
| 33 | Erm , many of you will realize that East Devon have been requested er by the Government to prepare these area wide plans rather than just a town plan so they take in and encompass the whole of the area and there was quite a lengthy and substantial document with the , with all the different policy statements on I believe Councillor ? |
| 34 | I 'll have to phone Nick tonight to see if the Captain has a phone number now rather than just an address cos if I can phone him it 'll be a lot easier . |
| 35 | Much less flashy and class orientated in a UK sense , they have more of a general consultancy view of the world , with a problem-solving approach rather than just an interest in completing a job . |
| 36 | In the nervous nineties , when the Me generation has grown into the Us generation , we will be looking for Our Shop rather than just an emporium where they stock personal stereos by the thousand . |
| 37 | With the reading of Hippolytus and the cracking of the outer shell of his cheerful , hard-working , no-nonsense self , introspection was running riot and ‘ spiritualism ’ — by which he clearly meant dabbling in affairs of the spirit rather than solely a preoccupation with the dead — had , by the summer of 1929 , taken a firm grip on him . |
| 38 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |
| 39 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 40 | As a result of Nicaea , Rome became the official centre of Christian orthodoxy , and any deviation from that orthodoxy became a heresy , rather than merely a difference of opinion or interpretation . |
| 41 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 42 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 43 | For the one thing that makes rock more than simply an industry , the one thing that transcends the commodity relation , is fidelity , the idea of a relationship . |
| 44 | He was more than just a hypochondriac . |
| 45 | Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ? |
| 46 | And Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown 's popularity actually increased after the revelation that he 'd dipped more than just a toe into the typing pool . |
| 47 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 48 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 49 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 50 | maybe even more than just a day . |
| 51 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
| 52 | But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration . |
| 53 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
| 54 | But it was more than just a pub crawl . |
| 55 | Is he more than just a basher of indifferent bowling , of which there is currently plenty ? |
| 56 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 57 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
| 58 | In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits . |
| 59 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
| 60 | There is , however , more than just a need ; for there is fundamental necessity for vision at all levels of human affairs ; all groups of people , even small teams as well as nations , must have a vision , or everything subsides into confusion and what is worse , lets power fall into the hands of practical , and unseeing men who press only their own interests , leading to strife and despair . |