Example sentences of "than with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 2 | The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves . |
| 3 | As the blower is engine-driven , boost is always on hand , so response is much faster than with a turbocharger . |
| 4 | The system is further complicated by the fact that on many issues a Flemish socialist is far less likely to agree with a French-speaking fellow-socialist than with a conservative fellow-Fleming . |
| 5 | Several layers of old paint on an exterior door were removed in substantially less time than with a set-speed budget rival . |
| 6 | None of this included identification with a national entity ; indeed , ‘ a French knight , like a French priest , had more in common with a knight or a priest from Italy or Germany than with a French peasant ’ . |
| 7 | But it is worth noting that at least for the criticism of popular culture , and of television in particular , this apparently postmodern move may have less to do with a radical change in the terms of value than with a fundamental shift of attention — and of political faith — from the text to the audience . |
| 8 | Outings to concerts or the cinema , and gardening and outdoor work are also likely to be more popular with one or two people on their own rather than with a whole group . |
| 9 | It usually works best to make outings as normal as you can — ie , go with just two or three people to a concert or the theatre rather than with a whole organised group which will stand out . |
| 10 | Kapil is clearly more at home with a bat or a ball in his hand than with a pen . |
| 11 | To my mind his strong points are his single note two-hand tapping ( which is often done with the side of the pick rather than with a right-hand finger — see Satch Boogie ) , his chordal tapping ( as in Midnight , The Forgotten Part 1 and Headless ) and his tremolo and legato work ( as in nearly everything ! ) . |
| 12 | If the latter , we 're a lot better off with a restrained government than with a rampant one . |
| 13 | Labour 's concern should be with the initial distribution of wealth , rather than with a post hoc redistribution . |
| 14 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |
| 15 | In a letter written just before this last trip he asked the Bishop to act as his next-of-kin , mentioned a small legacy to the diocese , and added that he hoped to benefit the Church in Burma with many years of service rather than with a paltry sum of money . |
| 16 | And after a long day 's walking , what better way to end it than with a glass of cider in one of St Ives ' treasures — The Three Ferrets . |
| 17 | If it is pulling water from the bottom of the pool , you are more likely to encounter blockage than with a mid-water feed . |
| 18 | As Squig Hunter teams normally carry one prodder between two models a Boss can be armed with a sword , axe or any other kind of hand weapon rather than with a prodder . |
| 19 | ‘ more down to earth , more devoted to our purposes than those of the author , less concerned with artistic values than with a faithful rendering of the subject 's experience and interpretation of the world he lives in . |
| 20 | ( Thus a German worker in an advanced capitalist society has more in common with a British worker than with a German industrialist . ) |
| 21 | Most crucially , the report still viewed unemployment as something requiring periodic relief rather than with a sense of understanding of how relief and cure were bound up together . |
| 22 | Dealing otherwise than with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss |
| 23 | The most important defence is trading other than with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 24 | The reference in Joshua 10:13 to the sun standing still ‘ in the midst of the heavens ’ was surely more consonant , Galileo suggested , with the Copernican than with a geocentric system ? |
| 25 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 26 | The common English proverb " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise " is less concerned with self-denial than with a prescription for regular habits . |
| 27 | By the time English had situated itself as a centre of learning and teaching at all universities in the early 1930s , its ethos and evaluative criteria were those associated with a masculine profession , rather than with a programme of national cultural intervention . |
| 28 | As a consequence she may be more likely to mate with him than with a male who is less explicit about his state . |
| 29 | The result is significantly lower figures for ownership control than with a methodology such as that of Nyman and Silberston , discussed above . |
| 30 | Typically , writers became involved in relations with the market as a whole , rather than with a specific productive intermediary , and this generalization of full market relations took them , in majority , beyond the post-artisanal phase and into the phase of the organized professional market . |