Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [adv] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horizontal axis is now calibrated in units of beta rather than the standard deviation of expected returns . |
| 2 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 3 | In this situation production responds to the demands of marketing rather than the other way round . |
| 4 | His skill has resulted in accurate information on actual hours of work rather than the , often lower , contracted hours . |
| 5 | an Article 85-type prohibition of anticompetitive agreements , including an illustrative , but not exhaustive , list of banned practices such as price fixing , collusive tendering , resale price maintenance ( RPM ) , market sharing , and collective boycotts : the focus of the prohibition is to be on the effects of agreements rather than the specific form that they take ; |
| 6 | The distribution of titles , however , was very much in the interests of a king who was about to lead his nobility in war , and in any case the king intended to finance the war out of the proceeds of taxation rather than the income from royal estates . |
| 7 | That would be impossible to accommodate without major adverse effect up what is a historic town , almost entirely er located within a conservation area , and as Mr Curtis said , erm constrained by the greenbelt , the final point is er it is located within the A sixty four corridor and it is inevitable that it would serve the needs of Leeds rather than the needs of York if it were expanded in that way . |
| 8 | The needs of children rather than the needs of mothers were , and to some extent remain , the chief focus of its attention . |
| 9 | Diversion is seen firstly in discussion on the costs of treatment rather than the costs of continuing as before . |
| 10 | Though the subjects available as part of law degree courses have increased enormously in range in recent years , the balance of courses offered is still weighted considerably in favour of ‘ practical ’ subjects reflecting traditional private law concepts of property rather than the ‘ new property ’ in the many entitlements deriving from the public law that regulates the welfare state ( Abel , 1982 ; Zander , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | There is however also a connection with Parsons 's concept of ‘ primary selection ’ ; in both Stark 's and Parsons 's accounts the social basis of knowledge is determinative of the topics of knowledge rather than the content . |
| 12 | However , just as the Nordic states abandoned the idea of close economic integration , the theme was taken up in new developments elsewhere which , if they had a role model in mind , were to be based upon the more intensive ambitions of Benelux rather than the loose informal formats ultimately favoured by Britain and Scandinavia . |
| 13 | Writing when he did , and as he did , to justify an actual rebellion , it is perhaps not strange that he was thinking primarily of politics rather than of law , that the ‘ rights ’ he had in mind were the rights of man rather than the rights of the citizen , or that the sanction for these rights should be extralegal action rather than any constitutional check . |
| 14 | Indexing is based on surrogates such as tables of contents rather than the full contents of a node . |
| 15 | This is some orders of magnitude less than the primary bond energy and , as mentioned above , is responsible for the bulk modulus and bulk cohesion of the polymer . |
| 16 | She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues . |
| 17 | Women 's answers to the questionnaires by which assignments to ‘ stages ’ are made show them to be more heavily represented in the early stages of development rather than the later . |
| 18 | It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who , like Hegel , had argued about the primacy of ideas , especially the idea of the State , as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round . |
| 19 | There is reputation , one 's good name and so on , but these are extensions or corollaries of Izzat rather than the thing itself . |