Example sentences of "than by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current observational evidence suggests that the luminosity of the Galactic Centre is generated by a cluster of luminous stars rather than by a black hole . |
| 2 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 3 | It is argued for the appellants that fixing a tariff period is part of that power , and must be done by the Secretary of State himself , rather than by a junior minister or official . |
| 4 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 5 | The Police Complaints Authority may direct that disciplinary charges are heard by a tribunal rather than by a chief officer sitting alone . |
| 6 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 7 | A person can obtain a controlling interest in a company by means of an issue of new shares in that company rather than by a general offer to acquire the shares already in existence . |
| 8 | Most controversial was the submission by the Christian Democrats that the two republics should be linked by a formal state treaty ( as between two sovereign states , on the basis of international law ) rather than by a political declaration . |
| 9 | One might have supposed , therefore , that if the donor has chosen to make the gift by handing to the donee a signed transfer and the share certificate , rather than by a formal declaration of trust in favour of the donee , the gift would not be effective unless and until the transfer was registered . |
| 10 | Does the Minister agree that Chernobyl probably happened because of incompetence rather than by a deliberate action ? |
| 11 | In practice this should mean that the design of consents has been influenced less by conceptions about the similarity of discharges than by a scientific analysis of the impact a particular discharge may have on a particular watercourse and the polluting load that that watercourse can accept , according to agency plans for river quality . |
| 12 | Father Watson had been more than a little frightened by it , and had confided in the nuns that it was more like something produced by some mechanical contrivance , than by a human being . |
| 13 | The use of legal drugs ( alcohol and tobacco ) in this century is certainly characterised more by this model than by a bell-shaped curve , despite efforts to control their use . |
| 14 | In the general election of 1983 , 63 per cent of the vote for the Liberal-SDP Alliance was motivated by dislike for the other parties rather than by a positive liking for their own party of choice — still less for their policies . |
| 15 | Decisions are usually reached by consensus , rather than by a senior manager taking a decision and selling it or imposing it on his subordinates . |
| 16 | Through the British Association of Language Teachers , the Joint Council of Language Associations , the Modern Language Association , the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education , and other similarly voluntary professional bodies it is possible to locate interest and potential assistance , more easily than by a direct approach to local teacher training institutions , colleges of further education and so on . |
| 17 | In these societies marriages involve alliances between groups , often of a political character , and as such they are initiated and organized by the leaders of the groups concerned rather than by the future couple . |
| 18 | Earning money was rated more highly by students wanting to work in legal services than by the average student and London is selected by 59 per cent of them as the region they would most like to work in . |
| 19 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 20 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 21 | Recent models of Jupiter have been constrained by J 2 , J 4 and the axial period , rather than by the polar moment of inertia . |
| 22 | As will be suggested , this is a group characterized by ordinariness rather than by the extraordinary creation of new identities . |
| 23 | The first edge of her anger gone , Kate hesitates , trapped by the apparent sincerity of his voice more than by the real force of his hand . |
| 24 | Thus by the early years of the Edo period many samurai families were maintained by a fixed stipend rather than by the fluctuating harvest of a prescribed area of land . |
| 25 | Four out of the five Railfreight sub-sectors deal mainly with bulk traffic which travels by the trainload rather than by the individual wagonload . |
| 26 | It has been claimed that adults can also ‘ pick up ’ spoken language in this way ( second language acquisition ) better than by the traditional classroom approach ( second language learning ) if the conditions are similar to those experienced by young children . |
| 27 | When , in consequence , such background is presented by writers like ourselves , rather than by the official shepherd , it can often produce a reaction amounting to trauma , or a personal crisis of faith . |
| 28 | Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion . |
| 29 | It can not be better exemplified than by the uncomfortable relationship of late Cretaceous marine sediments to the metamorphosed Precambrian rocks of the Bohemian Massif , as illustrated in plate 3.1 . |
| 30 | The 5000-word critical analysis , which may or may not be supported by graphical evidence , has also been criticised as being a test more of the candidate 's authorship than of his professional ability , and an exercise more easily tackled by the ex-full-time student than by the part-time candidate . |