Example sentences of "[adv] than [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
| 2 | Alone with Henrietta , the woman he came closest to loving , Minton must have confronted more forcibly than ever before the nature of his condition . |
| 3 | Accordingly , butchers are learning to help us ‘ think forwards to the meal , rather than backwards to the animal in the field ’ , as the trade press exhorts . |
| 4 | Yet though irregular both in incidence and attendance , assemblies provided a golden opportunity for the dissemination of royal propaganda , to insist on the notion of ‘ public ’ war ( see p. 288 ) , and to depict royal campaigns as undertaken ‘ for the defence of the realm , ’ rather than simply for the king 's self-interest . |
| 5 | In the case of non-resident discretionary trusts the Inland Revenue are effectively increasing the amount of tax due as the flat rate of 35 per cent applies on the combined amount of the dividend and a notional tax credit of 20 per cent rather than simply on the net dividend as before . |
| 6 | The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) . |
| 7 | It is also relevant here that the story of the weeping bitch was a widely known one , albeit in moralized versions , as an exemplum , rather than simply as a fabliau . |
| 8 | The position is perhaps best described by saying that the directors owe their duties to the present and the future shareholders , rather than simply to the particular persons who are shareholders at the relevant time . |
| 9 | I have my doubts about the latter vision since archivists , librarians and museum creators deal with materials which are differentiated by the type of activities which created them , rather than simply by the physical form of those artefacts . |
| 10 | This is because the change in the stock in the current quarter ( ) consists of revaluations ( which are a function of the change in asset prices over the quarter ) and new purchases which are a function of expected gains from the time of purchase rather than simply from the end of the current quarter . |
| 11 | For this reason both are oriented towards criterion-referenced assessment in which achievement is measured against a given level of performance , rather than simply against the performance of other pupils . |
| 12 | We were all marking time , waiting for our demob , and tended to look back wistfully at what was past and familiar , rather than forward to the unknown future . |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 14 | The madrigals , more clumsy and old-fashioned , look back to the models of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder [ q.v. ] rather than forward to the looser , more expressive style of Thomas Morley [ q.v. ] ; two of them ( xxi and xxii ) borrow musically as well as textually from Ferrabosco 's settings , published by Nicholas Yonge [ q.v. ] in the influential second volume of Musica Transalpina ( 1597 ) . |
| 15 | The island is an ideal location where new ocean crust wells up at active ridges near the surface , rather than deep beneath the ocean . |
| 16 | So , the Keynesian argues that monetary policy will be more effective if the authorities aim to control interest rates directly , rather than indirectly through the money supply . |
| 17 | Despite British membership of the European Communities , there is an important sense in which Britain and certainly the British still look westward across the Atlantic rather than eastward over the English channel . |
| 18 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 19 | We regret the delay and we hope that the promised publication on Waddilove will be earlier rather than later in the current session , and that the government will take an early opportunity to publish clearer guidelines on its assessment of ‘ national need ’ for opencast coal , and the weight to be given to environmental considerations . |
| 20 | Multilateral rules are usually enforceable as between the exchange and each member , rather than generally across the whole membership . |
| 21 | I regressed Carol to the night of the crime , taking her back to the outing to the cinema rather than straight to the heart of the distressing incident . |
| 22 | The agricultural quality of the land and the need to control the rate at which land is taken for development are among the factors to be considered [ in assessing planning applications affecting agricultural land ] , together with the need to facilitate development and economic activity that provides jobs , and the continuing need to protect the countryside for its own sake rather than primarily for the productive value of the land . |
| 23 | In many cases , the pursuers will have proceeded this far on the basis of evidence ingathered before the Summons was served and if settlement can be achieved now rather than immediately before the Proof , significant savings in costs may be achieved . |
| 24 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 25 | You 're doing all the right things but it may be that the source of the irritation is from within your vagina rather than just on the outer labia . |
| 26 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 27 | You need to stand back from what you write and explicitly present it to your reader , commenting directly on its organisation , rather than just on the ideas it contains . |
| 28 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 29 | It was because they had been rich and important for so long , generation after generation , rather than just since the invention of the power loom and the spinning frame , like her John-William . |
| 30 | And I think most women would prefer it the romantic way , rather than just in the kitchen , over the sink or whatever , like in Fatal Attraction , says a married 27-year-old estate agent . |