Example sentences of "than an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it takes society twice as many resources to make an extra film rather than an extra meal . |
| 2 | This method is based upon an algorithm to determine the likelihood that two adjacent words are truly a collocation , rather than an accidental association . |
| 3 | When lie emigrated to Australia at the age of nineteen Robert Burrows was little more than an irreligious rebel . |
| 4 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 5 | Advantages : Students open up a vast network of potential sitters , and pensioners are usually reliable , so there should n't be many last-minute hitches ; it can be fairly cheap ; you 're leaving the children with someone older and more responsible than an experienced teenager . |
| 6 | Bardolino is our nearest resort to the great cities of Venice , Milan and Florence and will appeal mainly to those people seeking things to do and see , rather than an inactive holiday in the sun . |
| 7 | Among methods for secondary prevention , prenatal screening , especially ultrasonography , is particularly effective , though obviously abortion of a seriously malformed fetus is a last resort rather than an optimal solution . |
| 8 | We emphasised that secondary prevention — that is , prenatal screening and abortion of seriously malformed fetuses — is a last resort rather than an optimal solution . |
| 9 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 10 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 11 | A company swimming pool is a far better investment than an extravagant advertising campaign . |
| 12 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 13 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 14 | Most interesting , perhaps , is the extent to which attention to its organization of time around interruption and the consequent segmentation of its narrative might place televised fictional genres or subgenres in a fairly continuous line of popular novelistic forms for which the feature film represents a break rather than an exemplary object . |
| 15 | It is true that medical advice may be little more than an educated guess that proves wrong and that close supervision in a therapeutic trial may benefit the patient . |
| 16 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 17 | If the coil is positioned for maximum output an offset adjustment equal to the mean magnitude of the field is required , but need be no more complicated than an offset bias to the following amplifier input . |
| 18 | An in-house lawyer is usually better placed than an outside lawyer to give the advice which will most benefit his client ; he should have sufficient knowledge of his employer 's structure , resources and commercial objectives to enable him to give advice geared specifically to his client 's needs , which will not always be the same as the ‘ standard ’ legal advice . |
| 19 | Executive responsibility — as part of a team the solicitor has the opportunity to participate to a greater degree than an outside solicitor in the commercial decisions resulting from advice . |
| 20 | The children wanted sensible traditional meals and the contractors were faced with the problem of responding to demands in improvement in quality of delivery and organisation rather than an assumed change in taste for junk foods . |
| 21 | The conditions for sustained growth outlined in the autumn statement appear to be based on the idea of a revival in consumer spending rather than an investment-led recovery . |
| 22 | On broader questions , like physics-and-biology , our understanding is considerably less and complementarity is in danger of becoming a descriptive catchword rather than an interpretative principle . |
| 23 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 24 | Clearly , however , the fame of the artist overrides all these statements : a pen and ink Rembrandt is vastly more expensive than an eighteenth-century watercolour . |
| 25 | She was not alone , of course , in making the unwarranted assumption that an unruly Scots noble was in some way a fundamentally different and far more dangerous animal than an unruly French , or English , one ; generations of historians , up to modern times , have seriously distorted the history of Scotland by taking exactly that view . |
| 26 | Thus the Sizewell inquiry is little more than an expensive public relations exercise . |
| 27 | However , the money was used ( rather typically for the English universities of this period ) to help finance an additional chair of Arabic rather than an increased number of students . |
| 28 | To walk was to risk breaking it , but there could be no more than an overnight stop before Adrar , the end of the macadam and the last supply point before open desert . |
| 29 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 30 | Similarly , some religious fundamentalisms classify all non-believers ( generally an ascribed rather than an achieved status ) as devilish . |