Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compulsion that held her there , head resting against his broad shoulder , she knew was emotional rather than physical . |
| 2 | Dr Neil thought that the way she occasionally trod on phrases when she spoke was charming rather than irritating , given that it enlivened and illuminated her forthright nature . |
| 3 | And that judgement of mine is as much universalizable , as binding on my future judgements about relevantly similar cases , as if the example had been real rather than merely imaginary . |
| 4 | Given this stark choice , the jury decided that the policeman had been deceitful rather than that the woman had been ‘ wicked and false ’ in her evidence . |
| 5 | Once the Lord Treasurer became a working officer the post was filled with trained administrators , although their intellectual training had been literary rather than numerate : Lionel Cranfield was probably the first really numerate Lord Treasurer . |
| 6 | It did n't need much imagination to guess that his presence there had been recreational rather than restitutional ! |
| 7 | Although the rectitude which he sought was personal rather than public , this did not mean that public rectitude , which had required that the vacancy at Canterbury should be filled as soon as possible , was excluded from consideration . |