Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The machines can be adjusted in one minute to sort brown or parboiled rather than white rice , if necessary . |
| 2 | The second is that staff who transfer from hospitals to the community change their attitudes toward their charges , taking on new enabling and nurturing rather than rule-enforcing and limit-setting care roles . |
| 3 | There was also a felt need for mutual protection against the changing nature of strikes , which were becoming organised and coordinated rather than being spontaneous reactions ( Oechslin , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | Forty-four-year-old Robin Phelps from Brockweir was one of two men who died after the gantry they were working on collapsed and fell more than a hundred and fifty feet into the Severn in September ( 1990 ) nineteen-ninety . |
| 5 | The major findings of this combination of case study and experimental method in the surgery patients were that ( a ) the preoperative dreams of the surgery subjects incorporated stress-related material both directly and symbolically ; ( b ) the degree of incorporation was quite marked when the personal meaning of surgery and the individual modes of preparation were taken into account ; and ( c ) the content of the dreams was more repetitious and constricted before than after surgery . |
| 6 | By contrast , interpersonal skills encourage people to achieve their objectives by being honest and open rather than dishonest and furtive . |
| 7 | Pain is the main indication for treatment , and the disease should be regarded as chronic and relapsing rather than as an acute phenomenon treatable by a single medical or surgical intervention . |
| 8 | As already pointed out , men on average , become ill and die sooner than women , so there are more women forced by circumstances into being carers . |
| 9 | Also from the King 's Consort is a highly enjoyable new recording of Handel 's Four Coronation Anthems , again amiable and relaxed rather than incisively dramatic . |
| 10 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 11 | The century-old tower , one of Middlesbrough 's most famous landmarks , is crumbling and needs more than £40,000-worth of repair work . |
| 12 | It is one of the smallest cetaceans — adults may be less than 1.3 metres ( 4.2 feet ) long and weigh less than 30 kg ( 66 lb ) . |
| 13 | The relevant form is 20 pages long and contains more than 50 questions , and the 1 million people a year who labour to fill it in often fail to do so or are helped by relatives and friends ; 100,000 go to the citizens advice bureaux for help . |
| 14 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 15 | Some of the tunes are noodling , familiar and limp rather than languid . |
| 16 | But her concept of criticism was that it should be elucidatory and illuminating rather than evaluative . |
| 17 | Power is intensely fragmented and dispersed rather than being centred in a small group of party leaders as in a parliamentary system . |
| 18 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |