Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was briefly pointed out above , these methods are very different from domestic ones , being primarily schematic and teleological rather than literal and historical . |
| 2 | In Kaszubia , Mazowia and Silesia the peasants referred to themselves as Kaszuby , Mazury and Slęzaki rather than as Poles : Polak was a term reserved for the Polish nobility . |
| 3 | THE record of John Heddle showed the Conservative MP for Mid-Staffordshire as accident-prone , impulsive and self-promotional rather than self-destructive . |
| 4 | She also felt a commitment to those artists whose blatant and subjective rather than allegorical treatment of the subject matter may have excluded them from showing elsewhere . |
| 5 | But their purpose was very different , short-term and political rather than long-term and social ; and that was no longer an outrage . |
| 6 | The concept of ‘ disorganized ’ capitalism is essentially sociological and political rather than economic and may require qualification at the political level . |
| 7 | The reservations bourgeois thinkers had about their world were social and political rather than economic , especially where the danger of revolution was unforgotten , as in France , or emerging with the rise of a labour movement , as in Germany . |
| 8 | If you are applying for a job , then your sitting too close may irritate me because I will be expecting to use visual and auditory rather than tactile or olfactory channels . |
| 9 | The purchaser may elect to claim damages for misrepresentation ( whether innocent , negligent or fraudulent ) and complete rather than rescind the sale . |
| 10 | The main threat to our position and influence in the world is now political and economic rather than military ; and our policies should be adapted to meet the changed situation . |
| 11 | There is an advantage in modular courses , but I regard it as administrative and economic rather than academic . |
| 12 | It is certainly a procedure where one could well argue that the potential for serious abuse is endemic and inherent rather than isolated and , with due care , preventable . |
| 13 | The service of the meal was friendly and willing rather than efficient , and the food was just not much good . |
| 14 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 15 | If anything , Carter seem more relaxed and sane here than on previous occasions when I 've met them back in Blighty . |
| 16 | They also insisted that design must be formalised , that is , made symmetrical and rigid rather than natural . |
| 17 | The categories in each case are artificial and social rather than self-evident , but they are necessary so that we can conduct our affairs in an orderly manner . |
| 18 | Many people feel that behaviour should be ‘ natural ’ ( see page 113 ) and spontaneous rather than premeditated and planned . |
| 19 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 20 | Racism , and racial antagonism and conflict are therefore , paradoxically , essentially social and cultural rather than biological phenomena : it is not biology but culture that makes ‘ race ’ socially significant . |
| 21 | The work also voiced taboos and silenced areas in an attempt to make visible shared and common experiences , revealing their roots in the social and cultural rather than the personal . |
| 22 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 23 | It is an organizational and moral rather than a legal construct . |
| 24 | Solid and supportive , he is direct and straightforward rather than an organisational game player . |
| 25 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |
| 26 | About 70 per cent of Russian industry , according to Yel'tsin , was run by all-union ministries , and central rather than republican institutions owned 87 per cent of capital stock in the republic and accounted for more than 90 per cent of Russian exports . |
| 27 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 28 | The male/female distinction is not an important structural principle in Semai society : the sexual division of labour is clear , but not rigid ; there are no counterparts to the Mehinaku bachelor described by Gregor ( 1985 ) who goes hungry and cold rather than undertake the women 's tasks of preparing manioc and hauling firewood ; to a Semai , such behaviour would simply be absurd . |
| 29 | The fees , based on time and difficulty rather than on salary level , have been kept competitive ; the firm 's offices , first in High Holborn , then in New Cavendish Street , then in Harley Street and back to new Cavendish Street again , are presentable and functional rather than opulent or ‘ space age ’ . |
| 30 | It was basic and functional rather than hedonistic . |