Example sentences of "than [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the heavy rain she had to be out in clean air , running among the trees , anywhere other than inside the hot chamber of her skull . |
| 2 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 3 | The second feature of bureaucracy which has enlarged its area of political influence over the choices to be made among values , priorities and objectives , rather than merely the technical means to be employed , is the discretionary power of officials . |
| 4 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 5 | Then look at the five-day exercise on the senses : this has enabled you to start writing with the knowledge you derive from your whole body , rather than merely the abstract , visual knowledge you adduce through your eyes . |
| 6 | What is different in the Banbury situation erm is that fact that you are not only talking about one school and it 's education because Banbury School draws not only it 's own eleven to sixteen year old children , who have the option to go forward to the sixth form , but of course all the children that come from the Warriner School at Bloxham , all the children that come from Drayton School , and a certain number of the children who might come from the Roman Catholic Secondary School in Banbury , so there are a whole lot more people involved than just the actual children , and that 's what made Banbury a hybrid . |
| 7 | There 's more going on than just the Cretaceous collapse . |
| 8 | Port Solent offers berth holders more than just the first class yacht sales and repair facilities of the south coast 's most prestigious marina , it also offers 24 hour access 365 days a year . |
| 9 | It has become a pure threat signal rather than just the first stage of an attack . |
| 10 | The only real problem with this way of bending is that if one of the ‘ laminations ’ does break you lose the whole piece rather than just the one lamination ! |
| 11 | With typical Teutonic thoroughness , the Bölkow 's operating handbook is as comprehensive and useful a document as any I have encountered , with a proper alphabetical index and much more than just the bare minimum information required by the authorities . |
| 12 | Thus , any attempt to analyse the former land use around a settlement needs to take into account more than just the present physical nature of the land : changes may have taken place in any period under the influence of the technical abilities , and social and economic conditions prevailing at any time . |
| 13 | Because of the connection with prostitutes , pornography means more than just the graphic depiction in words or pictures of sexual activity . |
| 14 | But the event attracted more than just the curious and those wanting to buy . |
| 15 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 16 | The construction of villages where beds could be had by tourists for more than just the two months of July and August was advocated in suitably selected places . |
| 17 | Perhaps even more disturbing than just the two points they have earned in six games , is the one goal they have scored in those matches . |
| 18 | it might also be necessary to include more acceptances than just the minimal ones in order to accommodate this type of distinction . |
| 19 | As far as any future evaluation is concerned , if we adopt this definition of support teaching , it is obvious that more than just the traditional concerns with pupil progress in specific skills areas will need to be taken into account . |
| 20 | Now would they normally get their er a jockey to gallop the horse rather than just the stable boy ? |
| 21 | This has had a much more drastic effect on the reservoir quality of the rocks than vadose compaction or early cementation , as it affected the whole of the Hauptdolomit rather than just the upper portion ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 22 | In summary , humans employ much more than just the visual stimuli when reading . |
| 23 | Well something other than just to talk about other than just the normal run of road things . |
| 24 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 25 | Sport is exercise that satisfies more than just the physical needs of our body ; it is exercise that aims to fulfil other sets of needs and drives . |
| 26 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
| 28 | Whitley ( 1990 : 65 ) has suggested that this is in part because of the way skill formation is more intra-organizationally than individually achieved , and thus located in the context of the overall skilling of work groups rather than just the human capital of a competitive individual . |
| 29 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 30 | So the idea of a mass-market paper for the Masses , rather than just the Concerned and Committed , began to surface . |