Example sentences of "than a [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | And to us if we are to understand him in anything more than a superficial way . |
2 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
3 | Self-evaluation requires you to be completely honest with yourself , but in a constructive rather than a negative way . |
4 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
5 | You are likely to make a mess of it , lose your To Do list or confront people in an attacking rather than a rational way . |
6 | Anyway such selective enfranchisement was itself no more than a cynical way of heading off despair , what modern political scientists call ‘ repressive tolerance ’ . |
7 | However , as we have seen in Chapter 3 , clinical aromatherapy ( without the use of massage ) can work wonders if applied in a holistic rather than a symptomatic way . |
8 | Nothing better than a smoothed way through Customs and Immigration , and ready transportation for the trip into a new city . |
9 | Roger was clever , she told herself , though in a thoughtful rather than a brilliant way . |
10 | We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha . |
11 | Since there appear to be no consequences in judicial practice if the label constitutional is applied to a particular law , it is in the end no more than a convenient way for textbook writers to organise their material , just as they produce books on industrial law or commercial law . |
12 | As I know from my own experience , crack , or free-base , is highly addictive , but in a psychological rather than a physical way . |
13 | If you delay it until he/she is two or three years old , it is probably because you are subconsciously thinking of discipline as something unpleasant rather than a positive way of giving direction and equipping the child for |
14 | and safer than a known way ! ’ |
15 | That will be to you better than a light and safer than a known way ’ . |