Example sentences of "than with the " 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 | Its relatively light weight ( 1.9kg/4lb ) makes drilling above shoulder height a lot less tiring than with the normal electropneumatic hammer drills which you may hire . |
| 3 | He 's got a very good serve , but the percentage of points he makes from the baseline is better than with the volley . |
| 4 | She now thought that the Church was under attack from a Vatican more concerned with power and control than with the good of the people . |
| 5 | She agreed with the Bishop of Lincoln rather than with the students of Lincoln , for she thought him a disaster in the pulpit ; blinking , and articulating his words with difficulty , and often using the peculiar phrase ‘ paradoxic ally speaking ’ . |
| 6 | The importance which Engels attributed to this came entirely from his anthropological sources and really reflects an old-fashioned type of archaeology obsessed with material remains rather than with the general way of life . |
| 7 | There are so many similarities : poverty and governments more concerned ( until very recently ) with the statistics of production than with the producers ; a lack of accountability among governments and officials ; an absence of standards maintained through efficient inspectorates ; a lack of that motivated middle class which in the West has made its strength felt in politics ; a lack of effective protest by the victims , for the most part people who have come to accept pollution and filth as part of their everyday condition . |
| 8 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 9 | Old residents say they have more in common with the latinos than with the ultra-rich who have taken over their valley . |
| 10 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 11 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 12 | Some of the legislation concerned with registering a death is more to do with fears of grave-robbing some 150 years ago than with the requirements of society at the end of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | The remaining spouse , or whoever , often seems more concerned with the death of the pet than with the death of the human being . |
| 14 | Younger men , on the whole , demonstrated a greater concern with the nature of the state than with the purity of Islam : Libya is Muslim and should therefore have Islamic law . |
| 15 | In general it seems fair to say that rather fewer Zuwaya were concerned with freedom of speech or opinion than with the threats to economic independence , which in their view was more closely bound up with identity and belonging . |
| 16 | But what of Mr Major 's claim that Mr Ashdown has more in common with Labour than with the Tories and could be the Trojan horse with which Mr Kinnock bursts through the wrought-iron gates into Downing Street ? |
| 17 | Perhaps understandably , in view of the problems he encountered and the opposition of some members of the county council , his concern was to establish prestigious links between village colleges and the University of Cambridge in the provision of adult education rather than with the much less regarded WEA . |
| 18 | Interest rates Short-term management of the economy has meant that governments manipulate interest rates to ensure reelection , rather than with the long term interests of the economy in mind . |
| 19 | ‘ The federal arrangements of the German Basic Law have less to do with real federative forces than with the principle of the separation of powers itself , and they benefit party political groups , their ability to form alliances and the bureaucracy . ’ |
| 20 | The igneous complex is composed for the most part of very resistant rocks , and less erosion has taken place here than with the other rock types , so that this region contains some of the highest hills in the Outer Hebrides , such as Roneval , Bleaval and Chaipaval . |
| 21 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 22 | They should seem eager , anxiously expectant , but they merely sat waiting , apparently more concerned with their private conversations than with the people they had come to hear . |
| 23 | Sadly , the case had more to do with the freedom of the press than with the rights of the mentally handicapped to live , and when the Mail was cleared of contempt by the Law Lords it was a victory for the freedom of the press not the mentally handicapped present in our society . |
| 24 | For the people of the territories it was a reminder that Jordan , Egypt and Syria were all more concerned with their own national and regional priorities than with the recovery of Palestine . |
| 25 | The Muslim Brotherhood was less concerned with the liberation of Palestine than with the establishment of an Islamic state by peaceful means , possibly as a part of Jordan where its activities were tolerated by the authorities . |
| 26 | Norcross found that the acquisition of a button-pressing task proceeded more rapidly with the first pair of stimuli than with the second . |
| 27 | The most obvious reason why there is a greater concern with visual images than with the printed word may be thought to be the emergence of the new media — film , television and even the computer . |
| 28 | The football authorities in England accepted the explanation and sided with Gallacher and the Newcastle team , probably as a gesture of national protocol rather than with the conviction that the Scot was telling the truth . |
| 29 | As I walked past my contemporary ‘ transgressors ’ , cloaked in the anonymity of the backpack , I felt strangely more at one with the old lags ' displaced condition than with the multi-hued raincoated and umbrella-ed Glaswegian families queuing to go aboard the Waverley paddle steamer for their day ‘ doon the watter ’ to Rothesay . |
| 30 | There is still real concern about the nature of the assessment process , though now it has to do more with its extreme complexity than with the simplistic naïveté of the earlier proposals , and with the fundamental differences of approach that are emerging between the examiners and the curriculum planners . |