Example sentences of "than [art] simple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Gnostics claimed to offer a higher knowledge than the simple faith of the church , their teachings were highly mythological and encountered an opposition , no less vehement than that of the church , from the late pagan Platonists , such as Plotinus ( mid-third century ) and his successors . |
| 2 | Early conceptual clarification ( Petch , 1987 ) confirmed both greater diversity than the simple dichotomy and the presence of alternative dimensions , for example decentralization and accountability , which both parallel and cross-cut the organizational debate . |
| 3 | One importance of the continuum is that it is a more precise form of categorisation than the simple dichotomy . |
| 4 | The budgeting system then becomes capable of reflecting the complexity of cases handled , rather than the simple numbers of patients treated . |
| 5 | The successful dentine bonding agents have one thing in common : they are more like welds than the simple bonds between two substrates in which the adhesive is present only as an almost monomolecular layer . |
| 6 | Even rape seems to be more respectable — more ‘ normal ’ — than the simple act of enjoying fine silks and satins next to one 's skin . |
| 7 | We should say that this is a more sophisticated design than the simple unit we published and is available by mail order for an inclusive price of £39.95 . |
| 8 | Times have changed — and got greener — so that some typical decorations like coral are no longer acceptable , while style and fashion has made a good-looking living picture in your lounge far more important than the simple challenge of keeping pet fish alive . |
| 9 | It has faster search times than the simple linked list , but greater memory overheads because each node has two pointers . |
| 10 | But two other factors were more important than the simple diversity of organisations . |
| 11 | Health is a much broader and socially defined concept than the simple absence of disease . |
| 12 | Production lines in Japanese enterprises are organized to be more flexible than the simple linear track of a Fordist factory . |
| 13 | However , they are more onerous than the simple formalities involved in undertaking partnership . |
| 14 | But if the situation must be represented as a multi-faceted negotiation rather than the simple , voluntary intervention which Benjamin sometimes seems to describe , he did nevertheless offer a way of analysis which speaks the language of the new pattern of determinants characteristic of late capitalist societies . |
| 15 | We are also seeing the sporty influence in the blue and grey mélanges which are mow important colours , rather than the simple black and white . |
| 16 | It is essential to work with a more complex picture of who the elderly are and of their role in society than the simple , depressing picture of a costly burden . |
| 17 | Only rarely do plans consider more than the simple spatial attributes of the housing stock . |
| 18 | An implant is far more than the simple visual component . ’ |
| 19 | " Slips " can occur at any time in recovery , even after many years or decades and can be much more distressing than the simple term implies . |
| 20 | The dominance hierarchies of primates are often more complex , overlapping networks , rather than the simple ladder of the hen hierarchy . |
| 21 | It is a more sophisticated account than the simple trait and style theories that we began our account with . |
| 22 | The second qualification is that the relationship that I am calling ‘ enemy ’ is more complicated than the simple bilateral relationship suggested by the stories of cheetahs and gazelles . |
| 23 | In other words , it could be these unspoken messages which altered the classroom climate sufficiently for girls to do better , rather than the simple fact of them being in a single-sex environment . |
| 24 | What all this shows is that a distinctively structuralist kind of criticism is possible , and moreover , that it is more than the simple application and refinement of the tools of poetics . |
| 25 | Before , she had understood his choice in a theoretical fashion ; now she was seeing what that choice meant , and how hard he tried for his poor patients , and for such little return other than the simple and offered faith of the poor , suffering girl on the bed . |
| 26 | Within hierarchical organizations of any size , more complex structures are observed than the simple ( two-level ) system discussed in the last section . |
| 27 | As can be seen , the bond equivalent yield is always less than the simple equivalent yield because with the bond the first coupon payment can be reinvested , whereas this possibility is not available for a discount security , which therefore has to have a higher yield to compensate . |
| 28 | Although the Yerkes-Dodson law appears to be able to make more detailed predictions than the simple inverted-U relationship , a major problem in testing the Yerkes-Dodson law is to decide a priori which of two tasks is the more demanding . |
| 29 | In actual social research such tables are generally more complex than the one illustrated here , often involving " higher " levels of measurement than the simple dichotomous attributes in the example . |
| 30 | High kicks are inherently more difficult to use than a simple reverse punch to mid-section , so the referee panel relaxes the standards somewhat . |