Example sentences of "than a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We thought it was a good idea to hold a pre-Christmas sale rather than a New Year one because many of our dresses are suitable for Christmas . ’ |
2 | Even if labour moves between firms , they carry with them more skill and experience than a new recruit and may therefore expect this to be rewarded . |
3 | I CA N'T think of anything more likely to get us through the pre-Christmas traumas than a new play by Don Hayworth . |
4 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
5 | Certain specifications allow the use of High , Expanded , or Extended memory , but MS-DOS 5 leaves you with up to 621K of the original 640K to use and programs that require more than this are more complex than a new PC owner should initially be concerned with . |
6 | Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country . |
7 | There are other potential locations within the district that would take a significant amount of development other than a new settlement . |
8 | This would be in accordance with the " acquisition hierarchy " observed by Edwards , assuming that the acquisition is of a second dialect rather than a new language altogether . |
9 | It is a sad and generally unrealised truth that the client who had been investing for upwards of nine months , probably knew considerably more than a new dealer . |
10 | We are seeing , in this development , none other than a new embodiment of the idea of an academic community , and one that is at the heart of the higher education enterprise . |
11 | And that is why fashion at any level needs to capture the imagination , most particularly in a time of economic recession when the consumer is likely to have priorities more urgent than a new frock . |
12 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
13 | Maybe the age of leisure will turn out to be a brief and unsustainable interlude rather than a new dawn after all . |
14 | Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ . |
15 | Air bricks , extractor fans , open fires and dehumidifiers all help , but often you have to learn to live with it — and there is nothing worse than a new house which was built in wet conditions . |
16 | You settle down more quickly in a place you know rather than a new place where you need time to get used to the seating , the lighting , the visual distractions . |
17 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
18 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
19 | Multimedia education is nothing more than a new version of a teaching machine , albeit with real-time video , and teaching machines do n't work . |
20 | They are nostalgic rather than expectant , thinking only in terms of God doing a ‘ repeat performance ’ rather than a new thing . |