Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 2 | However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies . |
| 3 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 4 | The snag with this is that the suppressed feelings are still experienced internally rather than avoided or prevented . |
| 5 | this is your way of working back rather than try and remember every little detail because a lot of them are similar , easy to get confused between them but you think well hey what would happen , what happens with an acid and a base , what happens with an acid and an alkali , now those two are virtually identical they they are more or less identical . |
| 6 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 7 | The end came even earlier than planned and in May 1968 the OCU ceased flying from Bassingbourn saying farewell to this historic station on the 19th and flying to their new home at Cottesmore . |
| 8 | One can imagine his dismay when he returned to the port and found the ship had gone — either earlier than planned or because the crew did n't want to be caught helping him . |
| 9 | " He summoned a meeting , where a simple plan was very simply found : since they had nothing left but their lives and their bodies , they chose to die nobly rather than to betray and abandon their king " . |
| 10 | In 1990 they considerably more than doubled and further increases are planned for 1991 and subsequent years until they approach the full cost of providing courses . |