Example sentences of "[noun] than [det] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there it is an easy step to the setting up of conventions of symbolic violence , in which just the display without the intention to perform the action , can serve a ritual purpose , that is fulfil some other intention than that usually associated with those expressions , stances , shouted insults and so on . |
| 2 | Had the decision-makers been aware of the choices others were making during the same period , they would have perceived opportunities for more attractive courses of market action than those actually adopted . |
| 3 | Enteral administration of adosrbents , if effective in inflammatory bowel disease , would represent a less invasive and a safer form of therapy than those previously used . |
| 4 | Will a curriculum with all the features recommended by Cockcroft have greater relevance than that currently experienced by many pupils ? |
| 5 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 6 | The road tops a hill and commences a long descent to a built-up area that , even when seen at a distance , is obviously a place of greater importance than any yet seen on the journey . |
| 7 | If the survey is properly conducted , the results are reliable , and representative of a much wider population than that directly investigated . |
| 8 | There was , however , no pledge to forgive more of Poland 's debt to the UK than that already agreed in March with the Paris Club . |
| 9 | But it also appears that the bishops who were consulted replied with considerable enthusiasm , proposing a much wider agenda than that originally intended . |
| 10 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 11 | Much of these data , however , are also suitable for hypothesis-testing — indeed the data are of higher quality than those generally used in research studies because it is not usually practicable to ask academics from a wide range of areas to adopt uniform teaching , assessment and reporting practices solely to permit educational research to occur . |
| 12 | This proposal involved rebated surfaces and , in consequence , a much more complicated arrangement than that finally constructed . |
| 13 | In fact I can offer no better advice than that already given by Canon Stafford Wright . |
| 14 | Maybe such herbs are natural neural tranquillizers , no doubt possessing a far more harmonious interaction with life processes than those presently produced by drug companies . |
| 15 | This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned . |
| 16 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 17 | It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that sexual abuse by women invokes more secrecy than that already disclosed . |
| 18 | Our colleagues thus are now to be found participating and observing in villages and urban enclaves in Britain and America as well as on the ski-slopes of Europe , and are also making forays into factories , prisons and hospitals to see whether they can produce more interesting and unexpected findings than those already provided by other techniques of research . |
| 19 | Third , detailed consideration was required of the reasons which had prompted the Cambridge Board to consider seeking providing powers for courses of a lower academic standard than those traditionally offered by universities in counties beyond those for which exceptional agreements existed . |
| 20 | Attempts to provide land use data for other countries are bedevilled by even worse problems of definition and classification than those already outlined , but Best ( 1979 ) has tried to harmonize European national statistics to produce the figures shown in Table 8.2 , and in the USA although Jackson ( 1980 , 6 ) has argued that : ‘ it is almost impossible to provide adequate statistics on land use … because of differing definitions ’ , he has nonetheless provided the estimates shown in Table 8.2 using Department of Agriculture statistics . |
| 21 | An intervening galaxy , acting as a weaker gravitational lens than any yet known , has bent the source 's radiation to give the two spots and — the clincher in lensing studies — an ‘ Einstein ’ ring connecting them . |
| 22 | Yet the statute authorizes interception on wider grounds than those previously acknowledged and fails to provide some of the safeguards against abuse which were claimed to operate under the old administrative regime . |