Example sentences of "[vb past] a [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people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected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 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A compromise decision favoured a federal rather than a unitary type of state . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , others saw a commercial rather than a political motivation behind the sale . |
| 10 | These came in the wake of apparently scientific evidence that pornography had a therapeutic rather than a harmful effect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |