Example sentences of "than [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must always be controlled and if injury is caused — other than perhaps a slight reddening — a penalty rather than a score will result . |
| 2 | But Caterham 's independence does enable it to be more adventurous than perhaps a large parent would allow . |
| 3 | For example , development must comprise private dwelling houses only , with no trade or business ( other than perhaps a doctor or dentist ) , no caravans or boats to be stored , no dogs , pigs or poultry , no sheds or sheds over a certain height , no loft conversions or extensions . |
| 4 | Where verbs of perception and know , as we saw above , evoke a characteristic expressive effect in this context , it is more difficult to see any nuance characterizing make here , other than perhaps a suggestion of result . |
| 5 | My concern Madam Deputy Speaker is whether we 're all being hoodwinked into believing that deregulation bill is opening a new chapter in our legislative history when in fact it 's no more than perhaps a weasel word describing one thing but er er another thing is happening . |
| 6 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 7 | Jansons masterfully keeps the music 's internal momentum alive without any sense of undue haste , and although the allegro bustles energetically along , Jansons resists the temptation to tear Shostakovich 's occasionally violent texturing to shreds For once the Finale appears as a crowning inevitability , rather than merely a throw-away moto-perpetuo of staccato virtuosity . |
| 8 | The monarch is , furthermore , more than merely a part of Parliament under the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Their plausibility requires that the disinclination to be cruel to animals is a mark of true humanity ; part of its content , rather than merely a possible cause of it . |
| 10 | Furthermore by taking an ideological rather than merely a dispositive approach he is able to lay down principles for the reconstruction of societas in the modern age . |
| 11 | Ask other lawyers about George , and there is acknowledgement of his gifts , even that he is more than merely a jury man , but rarely much warmth . |
| 12 | As a result of Nicaea , Rome became the official centre of Christian orthodoxy , and any deviation from that orthodoxy became a heresy , rather than merely a difference of opinion or interpretation . |
| 13 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |
| 14 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 15 | It is that we might , in other than merely a logical sense , have got yesterday but not last night . |
| 16 | [ The alternative ] means more than merely a different way of ‘ doing social science ’ . |
| 17 | Similarly , we have already encountered the question posed by The Architect 's Journal when Cramlington was first proposed in its modern form : will this place have any industrial , and hence employment , base which will make it more than merely a dormitory suburb ? |
| 18 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 19 | Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke . |
| 20 | This applies for example to the demand side , where the choice of functional forms is more than merely a matter of algebraic convenience ( see Dixit and Stiglitz , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion . |
| 22 | They featured ( i ) the reinstatement of the Ministry of Justice ( abolished in 1966 ) , the minister having the right to overturn court rulings ; ( ii ) the guaranteeing to defendants of the assistance on demand of a defence lawyer , including at the investigation stage ; ( iii ) a reduction in the number of capital offences from 34 to 11 ( retaining as capital offences treason , espionage , terrorism , murder and " economic crime " such as sabotage and theft of state property ) , and the exclusion of women from capital punishment ; ( iv ) clearer definition of the crime of agitation and propaganda against the state ( which was no longer to be a capital offence ) , in order to prevent its abuse by the authorities ; ( v ) the redefinition of internment and deportation as penal rather than administrative sanctions ( i.e. requiring a court ruling rather than merely a local authority order ) ; and ( vi ) the introduction of remission for prisoners for good behaviour . |
| 23 | The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role . |
| 24 | Borrowers are increasingly ready to deal with several firms rather than merely a " house " bank . |
| 25 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 26 | More narrowly , but still at a high level of generality , some variables may function as identity markers for whole status groups or for larger regions than merely an inner-city community . |
| 27 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 28 | Whatever choice you make stylistically , you need to maintain a register consistently , so that ( even though the register is selected and constructed ) it appears plausible as a " genuine " voice rather than merely an unstable , contrived style . |
| 29 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
| 30 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |