Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a superb product , better than PageMaker 1.2 and , on paper at least , better than the long awaited upgrade , PageMaker 2.0 . |
| 2 | This vagueness was inherent in a concept which expressed deep-rooted instincts rather than a carefully conceived policy . |
| 3 | The defence of pluralism , however , was aligned to professional scholarship rather than a clearly formulated politics of education . |
| 4 | What was intended by the supplier had not in fact materialised , because the case had been tried on correspondence rather than a correctly drawn up agreement . |
| 5 | A concept , rather than a uniquely defined product , it will be implemented to suit customer 's individual needs . |
| 6 | These various statements amounted to straws in the wind rather than a fully defined policy for ending the war . |
| 7 | Olivetti envisages that with time , it will be considered more as a brand name for systems integration , adapted for specific customer needs , rather than a rigidly defined product . |
| 8 | The new arrangements for the NHS continue this tradition of appointed Health Authorities , rather than a directly managed service or local government control . |
| 9 | While there is a good deal of intuitive sense in the observation that social workers and teachers respond to financial and other economic incentives like most workers , it is a hypothesis rather than an empirically supported contention . |
| 10 | One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade . |
| 11 | For some banks , worried about lending to LDCs , proposed project financings offer the possibility of convertible currencies being generated to service debt payments rather than the previously mentioned programme , or budget loans where no identifiable repayment source exists . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , there are rumours that the single or dual-processor Cobra , currently pegged at under $100,000 rather than the previously estimated $200,000 ( UX No 374 ) , may not ever make it out the door because of overlap problems . |
| 13 | It is also sensible to eat foods of vegetable origin in preference to those of animal origin , to use vegetable oils rather than animal fats , and to use natural , cold-pressed vegetable oils rather than the commercially produced , processed oils . |
| 14 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 15 | Father Watson had been more than a little frightened by it , and had confided in the nuns that it was more like something produced by some mechanical contrivance , than by a human being . |
| 16 | She wakened as though from some disaster , bewildered , more than a little frightened . |
| 17 | He could n't admit it to Pam , but he was more than a little disturbed by the fact that the Triad enforcer had escaped Springfield 's dragnet , after having almost killed Grant . |
| 18 | Rory put in mildly , though in truth she was more than a little disturbed by what she was hearing . |
| 19 | It was a pathetic spectacle and to be honest I must confess to being more than a little annoyed at being trapped in a railway carriage and forced to listen to this poor soul lurching nearer to a grave in the gutter . |
| 20 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 21 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
| 22 | Thus when the prince outlined to Anne his plan for a secret rendezvous with Joan , she had been more than a little piqued . |
| 23 | I was more than a little put out . |
| 24 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |