Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [adv] than " in BNC.

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1 At the time of the negotiations for the Treaty of Union of 1707 , the Scots Commissioners proposed a federal rather than an incorporating union .
2 In the political sphere Dewey maintained an organic rather than an atomistic conception of society .
3 A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to .
4 The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court .
5 In 1653 Deane followed the military rather than the civilian republicans , becoming co-treasurer-at-wars and co-receiver-general of the assessments with John Blackwell the younger [ q.v. ] , when the army tightened its grip on the fiscal machinery of government .
6 Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism .
7 Since the mid-1980s , when autonomy was conceded to the Atlantic coast and the principle of bilingual , bi-cultural education was established , the question of language became an educational more than a political problem .
8 A compromise decision favoured a federal rather than a unitary type of state .
9 Dotty told him he was worrying needlessly seeing he was a Methodist , a belief which favoured an artificial rather than a natural classification of guilt .
10 Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants .
11 In the Australian experience referred to earlier , those engaged in the study of alternative community-based educational initiatives stressed the former rather than the latter , ‘ The innovating organisation will only survive if it can show them ( the statutory bodies and local power groups ) that its power is complementary rather than invasive . ’
12 However , others saw a commercial rather than a political motivation behind the sale .
13 These came in the wake of apparently scientific evidence that pornography had a therapeutic rather than a harmful effect .
14 She had an interesting rather than beautiful face , with sharp angles and large blue eyes , and a wide mouth that was smiling pleasantly in her direction .
15 His attempt to buy into ITV by taking over their share of Thames TV from BET and Thorn EMI was vetoed in 1985 by the IBA , which wanted a broader rather than narrower range of owners .
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