Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | MGM , Fox , Warner and RKO made a substantial number of films out of London , many of them spectaculars rather than authentically British productions , and a number of producers like Albert ( ‘ Cubby ’ ) Broccoli and Sam Spiegel moved from America to the UK . |
| 2 | It is obviously to their benefit that the specification reflects the strengths and capabilities of their products rather than competition . |
| 3 | However , for the most part the fundholders ' business plans indicated that they planned to make savings in the prescribing element of their budgets rather than in hospital services . |
| 4 | It is perhaps not surprising that when older pupils come to sit their leaving examinations , they generally view the prospect of the examinations without much apprehension ; this may be because most decisions about their future are taken on the recommendation of their teachers rather than directly on the basis of examination results . |
| 5 | Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) . |
| 6 | The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen . |
| 7 | But , ironically enough , pull on your walking boots and dig out an anorak because you can still see far more sleeper-skeletal evidence of their trackbeds today than those standard gauge lines of the lowland travelled by people in recent memory . |
| 8 | The general data presented by Cox are undeniable , but interpretation of the data rests on certain assumptions , principally that people act on an individualistic basis rather than as groups , and according to attitudes expressed in the quiet of their homes rather than in response to major events . |
| 9 | Furthermore , if any of the vendor shareholders are non-UK-resident trusts established before 19 March 1991 , which have not since then become " qualifying settlements " within the meaning of para 9 Sch 5 TCGA 1992 , or otherwise s86 TCGA 1992 does not apply , the trustees will wish to dispose of their shares rather than receive a distribution . |
| 10 | This way , he says , developers can focus on the business aspects of their applications rather than the details and complexities of the environment , a productivity advance . |
| 11 | But the people who suffer , again , are the poor — the shanty-town dwellers who can afford less food because the subsidy has disappeared overnight ; the rural villagers whose primary health post stands empty ; the children who emulate the illiteracy and ignorance of their grandparents rather than their better educated parents . |
| 12 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 13 | Thus the primary motivation of professionals is public service rather than personal gain : doctors are concerned primarily with the health of their patients rather than with lining their own pockets . |
| 14 | In a sense the development of such petitions is of far greater interest to the ecclesiastical historian in respect of its consequences rather than its origins ; for what this system entailed was public cognizance , and a public memory , of grievances ; when these complaints were directed at the church , parliament inevitably served to institutionalize and to unify countless discontents , and thus to provide kings and others with ideas , excuses and encouragement for actions against the church which might otherwise have remained unrealized . |
| 15 | But if the gist of the article is genuinely to demolish the rumour , or to demolish the credibility of its mongers rather than its victim , the article as a whole may not bear a defamatory meaning . |
| 16 | This view , whereby science progresses through the dialectic of its concepts rather than by testing its hypotheses against ‘ experience ’ , was developed significantly by both Bachelard and Althusser . |
| 17 | But why do we value a firm in terms of its liabilities rather than its assets ? |
| 18 | In which case , there ought to be more of her things here than mine . |
| 19 | So she forbore to do so altogether , even to Cedric , and as she lay in her bed that day , her arm now beginning to give her some considerable pain , she would willingly ( she knew ) have cracked two of her ribs rather than chipped a couple of her teeth . |
| 20 | She considers that she meets the needs of the modern age by showing the validity of her teachings rather than by condemnations . ’ |
| 21 | In a recent ‘ Out On Tuesday ’ programme on Channel 4 , Susan Hemmings observed how , in Britain , feminist lesbians in the seventies were expected to be attracted to a woman on the basis of her ideas rather than her appearance . |
| 22 | Simple recognition of his feelings rather than continual arguments about how fair they were being was needed from his parents . |
| 23 | One question was about a man who won £2000 in a competition and the way in which he shared the prize money , his wife getting nothing and each of his sons more than their ( older ) sister . |
| 24 | He may have been unusual , but that would lie in the range of his talents rather than in possessing any individual one of them . |
| 25 | A brief memoir by his secretary , Henry Isaacson , is a catalogue of his virtues rather than an account of his life . |
| 26 | At the end of the day we are asking so much more of our employees nowadays than we 've ever done before . |
| 27 | The results are due to a regular structuring of an individual 's life-style ; they are a reflection of the regularity of our habits rather than of some body clock . |