Example sentences of "is [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 2 | Thus the Metropolitan Commissioner 's testimony to a brand of tyre as a major contribution to road safety carries weight because of who he is rather than what he looks like . |
| 3 | The basic theory is rather than with increasing variation in boat shapes and canoeing activity we can no longer use one single approved style of paddling . |
| 4 | Learning is therefore seen in terms of where the child is rather than where we hope he might be . |
| 5 | At home rewards are ‘ ascriptive ’ , depending on who one is rather than on what one does . |
| 6 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 7 | So what you need to do is rather than have a big block of writing okay which is going to look not really in the format of this kind of newspaper is it ? what you tend to get in the tabloids is loads of these little ones . |
| 8 | Someone paid them good money , a lot of money , to do that — this so-called ‘ friend ’ they mentioned — so if I were you I 'd be trying to work out who he is rather than getting on my soapbox . |
| 9 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 10 | In 1990–91 the minimum benefit someone could receive was 50p , however from April 1991 benefit will be paid even if it is less than 50p a week . |
| 11 | Linearity error is less than 0.5 . |
| 12 | But because each refuses to acknowledge its neighbours , the net effect in terms of the streetscape is less than zero . |
| 13 | They are impossible to sex by sight , but their average clutch size is less than six eggs . |
| 14 | Today , the difference is less than one point . |
| 15 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 16 | If as here , the pole is less than 1¼in diameter , roll the two rubber bushes ( supplied ) over the bottom of the pole and spaced 6in apart . |
| 17 | NASA 's budget for life sciences is less than $138 million a year , out of the agency 's total annual spending of $14 billion . |
| 18 | Pentagon figures for Panamanians killed during the invasion and the fighting that followed is less than 300 . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , all have a probability of success which is less than 100 per cent . |
| 20 | However , if the score is less than five , you will need to increase the amount of time spent or the number of times a week you practise it . |
| 21 | This new space-saving model is less than 18 inches wide and is being produced exclusively for Radio Rentals . |
| 22 | In the light of current data for non-insulin-dependent diabetics without evidence of nephropathy and whose diastolic blood pressure is less than 110 mm Hg , the high-fibre low-fat and low-sodium diet described earlier appears to be the preferred therapy and should be continued for at least three months . |
| 23 | If it is less than £1.05 a week , it will be paid as a lump sum once a year . |
| 24 | There are cases in the US where the construction time is less than 90 months . |
| 25 | Faris is sure that it is lower than 300 picoseconds , although he does not have the equipment to prove his prediction that it is less than 50 picoseconds ( 10 -12 seconds ) . |
| 26 | however , a means of switching to petrol for starting or to meet heavy-load surges is usually retained ; so that the fuel saving is less than 100 per cent . |
| 27 | These are attached when the bird is less than 10 days old , and as it grows the ring becomes impossible to remove . |
| 28 | A new report from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food estimates that the average intake of dioxins in the gut in the UK is less than one quarter of the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) Tolerable Daily Intake ( TDI ) . |
| 29 | Christmas is less than seven weeks away ; forgive us if it all seems too early , but would n't it be terrific if this year , just for a change , you really did manage to get everything done ahead of time so you could actually enjoy the break … ? |
| 30 | The fare is less than £1 . |