Example sentences of "than [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visibility , lower than that of the drier climate of many parts of China , has caused the artist in Japan to be more concerned with the strength of outline than with the subtleties of depth sought for by his Chinese neighbour . |
| 2 | The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters . |
| 3 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 4 | The art of civilisations other than that of the West are now more readily visible through photography , and within the limitations of the medium , usefully so . |
| 5 | A mind that can turn faster and keep going longer than that of anyone I know , so Paz , wrote Harsnet . |
| 6 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 7 | The name of Poirot 's occasional assistant is no less carefully chosen than that of Agatha Christie 's main protagonist . |
| 8 | In the event the persons who wanted to talk to Henry Tyler went to the Foreign Office to see him — where they found his rank to be rather higher than that of errand-boy . |
| 9 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 10 | Just words indeed , and of more general application than that of Canadian Jewry only . |
| 11 | His presence had a telling , if quieter , effect on Leonard than that of Dudek or Layton , but it was nevertheless very important . |
| 12 | They live and work in a more varied , often plebeian , environment than that of courtiers in the palace of a prince . |
| 13 | It is , of course , Elbrus , a huge dormant volcano with two summits at 5642 metres ( 18,510ft ) and 5621m , the Western top being more than 800 metres higher than that of Mont Blanc . |
| 14 | Greater disunity than that of the Marmeladov non-home can scarcely be imagined . |
| 15 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 16 | the reception of Derrida 's work , perhaps more than that of any other recent French thinker , has been marked by an astonishingly casual and unquestioning acceptance of certain extremely condensed — not to say sloganistic — characterisations of the history of Western thought , as if this history could be dismissed through its reduction to a set of perfunctory dualisms . |
| 17 | Of the first thirty cantos by themselves , no account is more plausible than that of a writer in the New York Herald Tribune Books for 9 January 1927 , who decided : ‘ Mr Pound is avowedly writing a history of the Mediterranean basin' . |
| 18 | These include agreement on curbing the cost of terminals and equipment — where the contactors ' estimate is £382m higher than that of Eurotunnel . |
| 19 | Beethoven , whose own opera of marital fidelity was heavily influenced by its music , regarded it as immoral -a reaction at least healthier than that of most commentators , who dismissed its plot as merely frivolous , and unworthy of Mozart . |
| 20 | This 11-hour day , longer than that of any other exchange , will give Liffe a crucial edge in the increasingly competitive European arena . |
| 21 | So when they run out to kick off their tour against Cardiff at the Arms Park this afternoon , around three million souls ( a population not much bigger than that of the Principality ) will be with them in spirit . |
| 22 | The economic plight of the Volga peasantry was even more crippling than that of the Tambov or Ukrainian population . |
| 23 | The number of passengers carried was 11.5 million in 1913 , 7 million in 1920 , and 12 million by 1924 : the productivity of river transport rose much faster after 1921 than that of the railways , although many problems had to be overcome , as was seen with regard to the Volga fleet in Chapter 3 . |
| 24 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |
| 25 | The language used was simpler and chattier than that of Pravda or even of Trud , the main labour organ . |
| 26 | The distribution speed of oral rumour was much quicker than that of newspapers , which from the guberniia capital of Voronezh' Shafir calculated to be one verst for every four and a half hours . |
| 27 | Literally this was not so , since the emergency procedures of the Civil Contingency Unit were kept in being and it felt able to cope with almost every dispute other than that of council grave-diggers . |
| 28 | In the Thatcher era , the nation 's leaders seemed now to reflect the ‘ enterprise ’ outlook of finance , banking , and credit rather than that of traditional manufacturing or other industries . |
| 29 | Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time … |
| 30 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |