Example sentences of "[prep] than [art] " in BNC.

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1 He rightly points out that we need more ladies toilets and if you know you get the chance to use the ladies loo it 's cleaner and better looked after than the men 's , I 've heard .
2 In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior .
3 There are more good people about than the world gives credit for . ’
4 I had more important things to worry about than the time . ’
5 The second variant I find more difficult to account for than the first , for which there are both specific and general explanations today .
6 I can not , however , accept his statement that ‘ when allowance is made for university posts and the commitment to research there is no indication that London and the south east are better provided for than the United Kingdom . ’
7 The English aristocracy have , it seems , rather less to answer for than the French ; they are merely as redundant as the dinosaur .
8 Overlooking the railway line , the new dual carriageway that runs alongside it and the surrounding housing development these buildings look even more dishevelled and uncared for than the Delphi Centre .
9 The traveller to New Zealand from England has more jet-lag to contend with than the traveller to Africa .
10 I found the early years far harder to cope with than the teens and others often agree with me .
11 Being a more acceptable sound , it is easier to live with than the tinnitus .
12 The first , though the answer may sometimes be complicated , is much more easy to deal with than the second , because in one case one is dealing with fact and in the other with personal preference and feeling , which are unpredictable and difficult to justify to the determinedly sceptical .
13 Although the drawing program 's technique is trickier to get to grips with than the painting program 's , it has two main advantages .
14 At the time , however , the question of Ho Chi Minh 's communism and his connections with Moscow and with ‘ international communism , seemed somewhat academic and certainly no more important to begin with than the mounting suspicions of France 's unreconstructed colonialism .
15 It is no wonder that teachers find ‘ difficult ’ girls far harder to cope with than the difficult boy .
16 I do n't think he finds himself any easier to live with than the rest of us .
17 In a non-System V.4 kernel , the original TLI , XTI and Socket lib are replaced by Mentat TLI , XTI and Socket lib , on which runs the Mentat MPS , and under than the Mentat TCP/IP module , XTP module and XNS module , and other protocols .
18 MATURITY IS : The understanding that if love is not viewed more as a commitment to be entered into than a desire to be fulfilled , neither will happen .
19 The O one will be going further into than the
20 You were falling feet first , so your feet were closer in than the rest of your body .
21 Kewlany was put back into his tunnel and eventually the vein was cut after 70 fathoms 210 ft. further in than the original calculation and much further than the second estimate based on an 18 inch inclination in every 6 feet .
22 When things go wrong , they will want more to turn to than a toll-free telephone help-line .
23 Some people found the sing-song voice a barrier , and found the beginning and the middle easier to listen to than the end .
24 It is possible that the silent witness of a man 's life was more in accordance with the tradition of meditation and contemplation that Gandhi was accustomed to than the more vocal and prophetic approach of the Christian tradition .
25 DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than the SQL Access Group interfaces , he says .
26 He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse …
27 On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire .
28 The second question is easier to speculate on than the first .
29 But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold .
30 Nevertheless , Sir , there are some things more fit to be looked at than others ; for instance , there is nothing more fit to be looked at than the outside of a book …
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