Example sentences of "[adv] than simply [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |