Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another second Forest player seemed to go in then I do n't know whether it was him that caught Speedy rather than Cooper with the initial challenge . |
| 2 | The woman was probably in her middle forties , with a body that looked strong rather than fat under the shapeless clothes , and a long lined face that had already done all the ageing it was likely to . |
| 3 | Unlike the continental European ecologists , Clements was working within a system that emphasized practical rather than pure research and saw science as a way of controlling the economy as a whole . |
| 4 | Buckey was retried on eight charges , although the proceedings lasted less than 12 weeks and involved 40 rather than the 124 original witnesses . |
| 5 | He stressed construction and encouraged analytical rather than Impressionist drawing , observation rather than superficial technique . |
| 6 | She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean . |