Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 2 | In fact , the priority of base layers , as most manufacturers prefer to call them these days , is to keep you dry rather than warm . |
| 3 | Their offspring had one each but were tall rather than intermediate in height because the tallness factor is ‘ dominant ’ to the shortness factor . |
| 4 | There are good reasons why I prefer to purse-net whenever possible rather than kill the bolting rabbits with a shotgun . |
| 5 | Moral : never start a big warren system other than at the beginning of the day 's work , since you need to complete it if at all possible rather than have to extend the work into another day . |
| 6 | Eat as much fresh produce as possible rather than relying on tinned , packed and frozen foods . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's better to triumph in as many races as possible rather than winning the World Cup with a series of good placings , ’ said the Italian , who has 28 career wins . |
| 8 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation . |
| 9 | And the Friar was somewhere in the forest visiting an acquaintance ; he had decided to do that rather than sit here in the young sun and sleep . |
| 10 | Decide why you did that rather than meeting A. Starter : A says , " Where were you last night ? " |
| 11 | It is different in that rather than lose V1 altogether in favour of V2 , the London speakers of Creole use V2 alongside V1 . |
| 12 | All that rather than allow him to marry me ? |
| 13 | That rather than making a block grant for somebody because we know they do a good job , that we do more directly relate that to services they 're providing to us and output . |
| 14 | Within a healthy tradition of Goddess-worship , there is assigned to the Goddess an ambivalence , a sense that left to herself she will be destructive rather than nurturing . |
| 15 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 16 | If they accept a contractual obligation to provide care , they may find that voluntary sector care increasingly substitutes for services which otherwise would have been provided by statutory agencies ; they will thus become mainstream rather than supplying supplemental , additional services . |
| 17 | A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market . |
| 18 | Overall , it seems fair to conclude that the right hemisphere does possess some word processing capacity , probably more so for the written than for the spoken word , for concrete or early-learned rather than abstract or later-learned words and for receptive rather than executive aspects of language . |
| 19 | It seems police failure to raise a national alarm may have fooled Stewart into lying low rather than making a run for it . |
| 20 | Tip of the nose well developed , broad rather than round , with relatively large nostrils and always black in colour . |
| 21 | Except in the three ILP seats the Communists would support Labour rather than ILP candidates . |
| 22 | The purchaser may elect to claim damages for misrepresentation ( whether innocent , negligent or fraudulent ) and complete rather than rescind the sale . |
| 23 | The A flat was the only Polonaise Cortot recorded ( though Music and Arts have a Polonaise-Fantasie previously unissued and dating from 1947 and there is a 1923 recording of Op. 22 , mutilated rather than cut and minus its preceding Andante spianato — CD MACD615 ) which is regrettable considering the fire he brings to Poland 's most ebullient and regal dance . |
| 24 | For the investor who decides to buy direct rather than invest via a gilt unit trust , which may have a front end charge of 6 p.c. plus an annual management fee , the cheapest buying route is via the Post Office . |
| 25 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |
| 26 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 27 | Since the enactment of s 459 1985 , it has been regarded as a better remedy for a minority affected by prejudice in a company to ask for a share purchase order under s 461 rather than to seek a return of share capital through a winding-up petition which results in the liquidation of a solvent company ( a member can not petition under s 122(1) ( g ) if the company is insolvent because he has no interest ) . |
| 28 | Workers who face a reduction in demand for their services become unemployed rather than reduce their asking wages . |
| 29 | Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics . |
| 30 | Initially girls would waste a lot of time being polite to one another rather than getting things done : too polite to choose a chief and get down to work . |