Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparing television with the press , for example , the public rated television a full 1.0 marks better than the press for providing issue-information , and 0.7 marks better on providing leader-information , but only 0.3 marks better for helping viewers and readers decide how to vote ( Table 6.9 ) . |
| 2 | Presley City 's up-town morning traffic was less than a match for it . |
| 3 | With the ICAEW examinations the tutors would be up in arms if any referral subject had a pass rate less than the rate for students sitting all papers . |
| 4 | Discussions of plays , for instance , can often be seen to be founded on the undeclared assumption that a dramatic figure represents a self ( rather than a vehicle for dramatic ideas ) . |
| 5 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 6 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 7 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |
| 8 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 9 | When he gets his way in a new ‘ voluntary agreement ’ ( which is likely once the industry gets over its panic on finding a Minister for Health rather than a Minister for Tobacco in the DoH ) he may feel bound to reject the ban . |
| 10 | A forward contract is therefore a contract for forward delivery rather than a contract for immediate or spot or cash delivery , and generally no money is exchanged between the counterparties until delivery . |
| 11 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 12 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 13 | The fact that the government had to rely on the townsmen themselves to apportion and gather the levies was therefore an additional burden rather than a basis for establishing municipal independence . |
| 14 | It is far safer to regard the P/E ratio as an indicator of market sentiment about the future prospects of a company rather than a basis for a systematic forecasting technique of future earnings . |
| 15 | The house was clearly meant to be a family home rather than a place for grand entertaining . |
| 16 | Glider designers sometimes choose to fit a tail-skid rather than a wheel for simplicity and cheapness , saying quite rightly that they offer a little less drag . |
| 17 | Problems to be tackled by additional restructuring and ‘ administrative ’ reforms ( some on the East German or Czechoslovak pattern ) , greater levels of investment in yet more priority areas , exhortation and other ad hoc remedies ; a blind eye to the ‘ second economy ’ rather than a policy for it ; consensual pattern of decision-making maintained and élite interests nurtured . |
| 18 | They treat the statistics as a topic for sociological analysis rather than a resource for theory-building . |
| 19 | Heavy advertising has promoted cider as a yuppie drink , rather than a tipple for farmworkers and a succession of warm summers has also boosted sales . |
| 20 | Callander describes the report as ‘ a contribution to the current red deer debate , setting an agenda for discussion , rather than a formula for future management . ’ |
| 21 | Thus , the term ‘ extraordinary treatment ’ is a conclusion rather than a starting-point for analysis . |
| 22 | And the aim is that the conversations are going to be anonymous and they are trying to compile a dictionary of words that people actually use , rather than a dictionary for people who do crosswords . |
| 23 | Blunt established his playing qualifications with the Green Wave — the nickname of a university team in New Orleans rather than a synonym for nausea . |
| 24 | Can the combination of both inward and outward investment be made complementary to rather than a substitute for domestic investment ? |
| 25 | The development of programme structures was seen as an additional administrative responsibility rather than a substitute for previous ones . |
| 26 | However , unless they include well-amplified organ tones , they are a useful addition to the organ rather than a substitute for it . |
| 27 | Education must be an adjunct to rather than a substitute for psychotherapy , but it is worthwhile if it does no more than alert the patient to the dangers of behaviours such as laxative misuse . |
| 28 | He wore a sword , but it had the light , ceremonious quality of a court decoration rather than a weapon for use in earnest . |
| 29 | Local people are bemused by the influx of Britons attracted by semi-derelict farmhouses and where the environment is an issue , as on the Côte d'Opale , the main consideration is its future as a tourist venue rather than a haven for native Frenchmen . |
| 30 | The existence of totalitarian states elsewhere in the world should be a source of anxiety for us all , rather than an excuse for falling standards at home . |