Example sentences of "than [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there an amplifier already on the market ( for less than about a grand ) that would offer all three sounds ? |
| 2 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 3 | However , Jerrome 's findings do not refer at all to ‘ tending ’ activities ; the importance of friends in old age seems to be more about a natural extension of satisfying experiences and modes of behaviour in earlier years than about a changed conception of the nature of the relationship which could accommodate more ‘ caring ’ activity . |
| 4 | ‘ Now this should n't take more than about an hour-and-a-half … ’ |
| 5 | After his first TV series I said to him : Are n't you happier as a media critic , putting shitty artists in their places , than as a failed shitty artist being put in his place ? |
| 6 | But as the 1980s progressed , the Brick Lane site was becoming more valuable as a potential development area than as a brewery . |
| 7 | The first line of defence of established literary study against culturalist pressures is to emphasize ‘ literature as literature ’ rather than as a version of philosophy , history , sociology , and so forth . |
| 8 | Raymond Williams came to think that a splitting of the discipline was increasingly likely , since cultural materialism and radical semiotics were not compatible with the dominant paradigm of literary study : ‘ For these necessarily include the paradigm itself as a matter for analysis , rather than as a governing definition of the object of knowledge . ’ |
| 9 | Van Der Meulen has been characterised as a good explorer rather than as a great one . |
| 10 | It concluded with the comment that ISC was ‘ more akin to a high-risk venture capital play moving between rounds of post-launch financing than as a stable company in conventional trading circumstances ’ . |
| 11 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 12 | I do n't want to sound dog-in-the-manger about it , but we have performed reasonably well in quite a difficult retail climate , but a view was put around that the individual companies in the Storehouse group were worth more separately than as a group . |
| 13 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 14 | It is therefore rather more as a tool for the analysis of the nature and functioning of states than as a theory of the emergence of the State that Marx 's and Engels 's views are still acceptable to present-day anthropologists . |
| 15 | Mariana herself is remembered more as a name on a family tree than as a person . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher interprets the Madrid formula more as a pretext for not joining the EMS than as a set of three conditions for joining it . |
| 17 | That would undo decades of effort to have chemical dependency recognised as a treatable disorder rather than as a moral lapse deserving of punishment . |
| 18 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 19 | Jane realised then that she had never really believed in covered wagons , other than as a vehicle for John Wayne . |
| 20 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |
| 21 | In 1956 , the French critic Bernard Gavoty published a monograph on Karajan that was much preoccupied with Karajan 's temperament and musicianship at a time when he was being increasingly regarded more as an ambitious virtuoso superstar than as a totally dedicated musician . |
| 22 | Zuwaya asserted in political discussion that no man was better than another ( a principle used in argument , rather than as a guide to action ) ; but when they spoke about distributive justice they put little emphasis on economic egalitarianism . |
| 23 | A study of Mary as queen rather than as a woman of great misfortune and ultimate tragedy necessitates discussion of what was happening when the central figure of the monarch was off-stage , and especially before her debut , when the scene of her rule was set ; the problems which her absence created , and the way in which others struggled to resolve them are as relevant as the short period of her personal reign . |
| 24 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 25 | With the crowd being the most volatile in the Caribbean — rioting held up play for 25 minutes during the Test against India in 1989 -there might be some trouble but only if the West Indies are faring badly , rather than as a result of any anti-South African sentiment . |
| 26 | All the same , despite his intelligence and charm , Diderot is perhaps less interesting in himself than as a symptom and influence . |
| 27 | even fewer would deny that the CMHTs were precipitated into a virtual policy vacuum and were in effect used as one means of developing a broader framework rather than as a means of implementing an already established strategy . |
| 28 | Walter Kauzmann , in a perceptive preface to his book on quantum mechanics , argues that chemical quantum mechanics should be regarded as a language rather than as a tool . |
| 29 | Although disapproval of sacred dramas continued to be vehemently expressed , as , for instance , by Gerhoh of Reichersburg ( 1039–1169 ) who , according to Kolve ( 1966 ) , warned that he who portrays the rage of Herod is guilty of the very vice he portrays ( a deep-seated objection not entirely eradicated today ) , anxiety about its blasphemous nature was dispelled as more people came to regard it as merely a ‘ game ’ rather than as a sacrilegious act . |
| 30 | There is considerable debate about the value of education for its own sake , rather than as a means to an end . |