Example sentences of "than [art] actual [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 2 | The word ‘ residual ’ is given to artefacts earlier than the actual date of the earth movement and only gives what is called a terminus post quem . |
| 3 | The remaining ones ( needle return levers , jacquard , LiLi ) , are concerned more with needle selection than the actual knitting of stitches . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the way people wear their clothes bothers me more than the actual style of them . |
| 5 | In this respect the importance of agreement with the IMF on access to its facilities is much greater for many borrowers than the actual size of the funds provided by the Fund would appear to indicate . |
| 6 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 7 | First , commercial convenience dictates that the law is frequently more concerned with the objective appearance of agreement rather than the actual fact of agreement , as was stated in an 1871 judgment : |
| 8 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 9 | Of course professional use is significantly more , but even than the actual period of continuous operation is deceptively low . |
| 10 | Goodchild ( 1978 ) suggests that the number of derived polygons is more a function of boundary complexity than the actual number of polygons . |
| 11 | Another charge of a similar kind is that Barth was excessively concerned with ontology , with the rationale of the being of God ; that he misused biblical terms and concepts on the one hand by treating them semi-literally as ‘ ontic ’ , as descriptive of the way things actually are when they are often pictorial or metaphorical , and on the other hand by turning the whole of Scripture into a vast allegory of Jesus Christ ; and that this reflected a Platonist streak in his thinking which encouraged an unbalanced concentration on eternal realities rather than the actual world of concrete life and experience . |
| 12 | In this sense a stability test is never finished in less than the actual shelf-life of the product . |
| 13 | The Nab is an excellent viewpoint , better in fact than the actual summit of Wild Boar Fell although of lower elevation . |
| 14 | It means that the compass shows less than the actual amount of turn . |
| 15 | The reverse happens when flying southerly headings and the compass will show more than the actual amount of the turn , so carry on past your actual heading . |
| 16 | This may well be greater than the actual amount of data in the file , but it is the amount of space allocated to the file by the Z88 's operating system . |
| 17 | Distribution problems have probably caused more deaths from starvation in recent years than an actual shortage of food . |
| 18 | In his seminal study Wilderness and the American Mind , Roderick Nash makes the point that ‘ wilderness was a state of mind — a perceived rather than an actual condition of the environment . ’ |