Example sentences of "than [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult female suffrage gave legal recognition to an utterly new status for women who could enter the public world as individuals in their own right rather than as members of families . |
| 2 | Although they acted more as employees than as members of a profession , they had important positions within the companies for which they worked . |
| 3 | Thus both knowledge and the learner are viewed as discrete entities which happen to be in one or another state of being , rather than as sets of dynamic and unstable processes . |
| 4 | When they first obtained them from India the Romans mounted them as finger-rings less for their appearance than as symbols of hardness and strength . |
| 5 | In narrative terms this is reflected as a disregard for verisimilitude and the use of characters as discursive instances through which a number of different discourses can be made to pass rather than as representations of discrete individuals . |
| 6 | The ancient Forest offices of verderer , regarder and agister had ‘ become merely nominal and … bestowed rather as Marks of Favour and Distinction upon Gentlemen of Consideration in the Neighbourhood , than as Appointments of real Use or Responsibility . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed it is now uncontroversial to talk of texts as a ‘ polysemic potential of meaning ’ rather than as carriers of a single message . |
| 8 | Acquisition of a button-pressing task ( a separate button was assigned to each of the four faces ) proceeded significantly more rapidly for members of the pair given dissimilar names than for members of the pair given similar names . |
| 9 | It does however represent an ethical standard which the press should be reluctant to infringe other than for reasons of genuine public interest . |
| 10 | This legal bonanza was obviously too good to last and ultimately matters were brought to a head in a series of compromises , as a result of which the lease was forfeited but the plaintiffs abandoned all its money claims in the relevant action other than for arrears of rent , and — and for the present purposes this is the crucial matter — the plaintiff released the surety unconditionally from his personal guarantee contained in the licence of 3 December 1973 . |
| 11 | For regionally balanced economic growth , this neglect of regional policies was most unfortunate because regional policies are more effective when pursued during periods of labour demand than during periods of high unemployment . |
| 12 | first , that it was a consequence of competition between members of the same sex rather than between members of different sexes or species ; and , second , that it depended on variation in reproductive success rather than survival . |
| 13 | The Gothic imagination dwelt on the mystery , and found it more productive of nightmares than of dreams of paradise . |
| 14 | Such profiles are characteristic of shorelines of emergence rather than of shorelines of submergence , a fact which led Johnson ( 1919 ) to class offshore bars as features typical of shorelines of emergence . |
| 15 | In this connection Kant is somewhat notorious for sometimes seeming to think it better to help those in need out of a sheer sense of duty , without feeling any sympathy for them , than with feelings of loving kindness . |
| 16 | However , there is general agreement that using Creole is more appropriate with " friends " than with members of the older generation . |
| 17 | This attention to the total psychological development of the child is indeed a new phenomenon , in that earlier generations of parents have been chiefly preoccupied by the related themes of physical survival and moral growth , rather than with concepts of mental health or social and emotional adjustment . |
| 18 | In other words , Saab felt that she had less in common with ‘ feminists ’ in general ( which , as we know , is often a shorthand for White Western women ) than with women of the Orient . |
| 19 | The abolition was widely resisted , and was seen as having more to do with the government 's dislike of local policies , particularly those of the GLC , than with questions of how best to manage public administration . |
| 20 | He 'd been more clever than the rest , luring her with an ill grandmother rather than with promises of extravagance , but now the truth was out . |
| 21 | As for handling people , ‘ i think you have more problems dealing with the chief executive of a book-publishing division than with chairmen of health boards . |
| 22 | ‘ A trusted cashier committing embezzlement , a minister who evades payment of his taxes , a teacher making sexual advances towards minors and a civil servant who accepts bribes have a fear of detection which is more closely linked with the dread of public scandal and subsequent social ruin than with apprehensions of legal punishment . ’ |
| 23 | The research is concerned with the long-run impact of government policy , rather than with issues of short-run macro-economic policy . |
| 24 | In the event of the Board terminating your appointment other than in circumstances of gross misconduct on your part or wilful neglect by you of your duties then the Board may in its discretion determine to pay you compensation in respect of that termination . |
| 25 | The key point in such a engagement letter is the client agreeing to indemnify KPMG etc against any and all losses which may arise as a result of the transaction other than in circumstances of KPMG 's gross negligence . |
| 26 | This has been shown by lower prevalence of antibodies to toxoplasma in immigrants to Paris than in women of French origin , a factor suggested to be the consequence of a cultural preference for poorly cooked meat . |
| 27 | National associations also tend to sponsor larger schemes in the more important settlements rather than in areas of isolated housing need . |
| 28 | Cureton draws heavily on music theory where , he claims , rhythmic analysis has always been handled with greater sophistication than in analyses of poetry . |
| 29 | It should be said , however , that Wimsatt 's treatment of the iconic properties of language is as far as the New Critics went in the direction of stylistic analysis as I have defined it ; in general they were much more interested in meaning than in forms of expression , and would have undoubtedly had scarce sympathy for Jakobson 's attempt to define the properties of poetry in purely linguistic terms . |
| 30 | I think that many of us would prefer to see falling rolls as a chance to reduce class size , thus giving pupils a better chance of carrying out practical work in pairs rather than in groups of three or even four . |