Example sentences of "than [adv] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , memory for a Christian is far more profound than merely having a mental skill or a better-than-average ability to recall . |
| 2 | But Allison has gone further than just stating the theoretical arguments for the process , he has already begun to explore the actual practicalities of implementing assessment techniques with the aid of students in his department . |
| 3 | If you 're likely to be tackling full-scale plumbing installation work rather than just mending the occasional dripping tap , it will pay you to collect some specialist hand tools . |
| 4 | Handy for determined sceptics , ex-members of the Socialist Workers Party , liberal intellectuals who want it to be known that there are more important things in life than just getting a green certificate . |
| 5 | She 's alright yeah , well I , I bought her a book but it 's one of these , it 's like a talking book a Disney one , it 's got like a keyboard down the side and you press certain pads and it makes a noise and I thought oh rather than just getting an ordinary book , I thought that would be quite good |
| 6 | This includes improving the face of social work through better professional procedure rather than just portraying a positive media image that has no substance . |
| 7 | But to win this game takes more than just knowing the right moves , donning the groovy gear and asking Mr Barber for ‘ a dishy pop-star cut , please ’ . |
| 8 | To my mind the answer is simple : when a critical approach is accepted as a legitimate element of social studies teaching ( and surely a critical approach is not one which is to be avoided ) then textbooks will be obliged to present alternatives , rather than just describing the sexist norm and failing to evaluate it . |
| 9 | If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests , then major land reform is essential . |
| 10 | Within insurance companies , actuaries have a much wider responsibility than just keeping the statistical score . |
| 11 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 12 | Moreover , rather than simply reflecting a stronger relationship between risk and memory at higher levels of risk , the relationship visible in Figure 4.6 actually has both a negative and a positive component . |
| 13 | A wealth of evidence exists to prove that reading involves much more than simply recognising the individual characters that form a word . |
| 14 | In effect , under the present system a voter is doing more than simply choosing a parliamentary representative . |
| 15 | Rather than immediately repealing the existing Informatics Law of 1984 , however , the government decided to abolish it when it expires in 1992 . |
| 16 | They would decide what ends the authority should not be entitled to pursue , or what considerations must be taken into account , rather than actually imposing a particular conclusion by way of substitution for that of the administrative authority . |