Example sentences of "[noun pl] than of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , he did much better as a collector of pictures from earlier centuries than of the works of his own contemporaries or friends . |
| 2 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 3 | Art history as written by Italians can seem rather old fashioned , more a matter still of attributions than of ideas . |
| 4 | I acquainted the Principal with the burden of my reply to Rosa : I had explained that it was less a question of manners than of physiology , and that extreme decrepitude and senescence did often lead to withering of the bicep and tricep muscles , which in turn led to a breakdown in the chain of command from cerebral GHQ to courting finger . |
| 5 | In addition to virtually dissolving the Army — a measure described by contemporary witnesses as " completely crazy " — the Prime Minister , Casares Quiroga , refused to distribute arms to the political and trade union organizations of the Left , evidently more afraid of the Republic 's supporters than of its enemies . |
| 6 | In March , however , the Halifax decided against this course of action while it became apparent that the Abbey National was going to face some opposition from its members who feared that an incorporated society would be more interested in the welfare of its shareholders than of its depositors and borrowers . |
| 7 | This is more profoundly a matter of the deeper cultural instilling of conformist values than of the effective threat of post hoc sanctions by the criminal justice system . |
| 8 | A higher degree of commitment is demanded of church musicians than of any other leader of worship . |
| 9 | The remaining three are significant , but this may be more a consequence of mixing the order of factors across the groups than of anything important . |
| 10 | This does not really explain how the regulation will be conducted , as this is more a feature of the regulators than of the politicians , if there is any slack in the relationship between government and regulatory agents . |
| 11 | Almost alone , she rightly interpreted the situation as a conflict less of religious faiths than of nationalities , with overlapping claims based on transitory periods of medieval greatness . |
| 12 | Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo . |
| 13 | The still greater rarity of references to the economic activities of grandmothers than of grandfathers reflects the shrinking participation of married women in paid work at this time . |
| 14 | At Goulbourn a large brick structure with stone quoins and cornices and a central tower and dome had been built in the 1870s , and structure with powerful round-headed arches and long arcading on two storeys was more reminiscent of Indian stations than of those of Europe or North America . |
| 15 | In Italy its champions were more nervous of its social-revolutionary implications than of papal thunderbolts , but nevertheless confident enough . |
| 16 | He unnerves and often offends colleagues on the Legislative Council , many of whom believe their institution is safer in the hands of appointees and amateurs than of populists . |
| 17 | I remember as a child in Africa being more frightened of driver ants than of lions or crocodiles . |
| 18 | But she knew , from her reading , infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women . |
| 19 | I HAVE to admit that up to now , I 'd heard more about The Cranberries than of them . |
| 20 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 21 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 22 | Various links have been proposed and discussed , but they are on the whole more revealing of the disparity between the two problems than of their convergence . |
| 23 | In this case it becomes less a matter of addressing contemporary political problems than of resisting institutional power , namely those critical readings which have recently claimed cultural hegemony , and of providing instead alternative accounts which insist on heterogeneity and resistance in historical texts . |
| 24 | But the Collector was no better at suspecting himself of faults than of virtues . |
| 25 | In certain regiments , however , qualifications beyond the strictly medical were demanded of the surgeons , for in Highland regiments knowledge of the Gaelic language appears to have been more seriously demanded of medical officers than of the combatant officers . |
| 26 | Thus , factors and conditions that mediate the influence of biological and health factors upon probabilities of infant and early childhood morbidity and mortality tend to be more characteristic or urban dwellers and of major urban centres than of rural and small town places and the people who inhabit them . |
| 27 | The Egyptians gather in a line , thinking more of the cats than of putting out the flames , but the cats dart through or leap over the men and spring into the fire . |
| 28 | He is much fonder of his criminal characters than of law-abiding citizens like Eugene Malou 's stolid elder son , Edgar — ‘ a big effeminate chap and perpetually earnest ’ . |
| 29 | Such revolutionaries also complain that by adhering so closely to the old subject divisions , in the past characteristic more of GCE O levels than of the CSE , those who devised the new examination missed a great opportunity . |
| 30 | Interpersonal arguments and difficulties were also a more common feature of the experiences of depressed patients than of the comparison group . |