Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 2 | As it turned out , she was able to tell the experts more than they could tell her . |
| 3 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 4 | It 's the beginning of the programmes rather than the end . |
| 5 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 6 | We heard him talking , but heard no response , so we guessed that he was on the phone to one of the chefs rather than just moaning to George . |
| 7 | Anyone who dreads the hairdressers more than the dentists can be guaranteed a warm welcome at Greys with free advice available . |
| 8 | From his wrinkled face and sunburned skin he looked as though he had risen from the ranks rather than graduating from Saint Cyr or the Ecole Militaire . |
| 9 | In her view , a liberal education was the birthright of every child and she tried hard to persuade the Board of Education that any form of continuing education should be based on the humanities rather than on technical training . |
| 10 | If we discontinue supplies , we will be hindering the Reds more than the Blues . |
| 11 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 12 | This question has occupied the courts more than any other raised by the whole subject of expert determination . |
| 13 | For this the British and French between them lost in the region of 600,000 men ; the Germans more than 440,000 . |
| 14 | I daresay he 's used the Guardians more than once , ’ he added , eating cheese with composure . |
| 15 | The final chapter describes 57 actual procedures for preparing and using various oxidation reagents , and the emphasis is very much on the synthetic usefulness of the reactions rather than on their mechanisms . |
| 16 | Erm and again I put erm things about putting details in the post although you , although you did try and overcome that one erm but you , you just could n't , you could n't get Steven to realize the benefit of you actually going round with the illustrations rather than you just sending it and you needed to get , to get the appointment out of him rather than because if he got the illustrations in the post he may never read them . |
| 17 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 18 | David Tweedie , the chairman of the Accounting Standards Board , has already warned that the ASB will follow the cookbook approach if companies and their auditors continue to comply with the letter of the rules rather than with their spirit . |
| 19 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 20 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 21 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
| 22 | Reasonable performance was achieved in this task but the aggregation is being achieved by external operations on the objects rather than by the more conceptual approach of aggregation abstraction : new object classes with aggregation methods are defined to represent the various unit sizes . |
| 23 | The government also allocated housing to the districts rather than to the regions . |
| 24 | Go round the animals rather than walking through a group of them . |
| 25 | Once again many of us were conscious of the opportunities rather than the obstacles which stand along the path of Church Unity . |
| 26 | Considering the pottery from the pre-forum levels illustrated , with the advantage of hindsight , one would date some of the vessels later than 120 , possibly 130 — 140 would be a better terminal . |
| 27 | Their life-style is dominated by the tides rather than the sun and they are adjusted to the tidal , not the solar , day . |
| 28 | We describe in the next section methods for building contigs which rely on ordering the probes rather than the clones . |
| 29 | any claim reported to the insurers more than 180 days after the commencement of the incident giving rise to a claim . |
| 30 | In Montfort 's subsequent regime , although involved in negotiations with the Marcher barons and with the increasingly disaffected Gilbert de Clare , his role was in the provinces rather than at court , in part perhaps because of his comparative youth . |