Example sentences of "[noun] than a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is more off-putting to a prospective employee than a delay in reply . |
| 2 | Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way . |
| 3 | Would this not indicate a greater love of dogma than a love of man ? |
| 4 | I 've gone it alone more times than a hermit with attitude . |
| 5 | As a consequence of the technical complexities of reprocessing highly irradiated oxide fuel from AGR and PWR , the Board expects to pay more for the reprocessing of a tonne of these fuels than a tonne of magnox fuel . |
| 6 | For some , the spur to going abroad seems more of a push from frustration at bureaucratic regulations at home than a pull from market opportunity . |
| 7 | Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends . |
| 8 | He makes it clear that he believes ‘ that there are higher civilizations and lower ones ’ ; the notion of Empire is ‘ not necessarily an ignoble one ’ when it is founded on ‘ the notion of extending law , justice , humanity and civilization — with no other interest than glory , and no other motive than a sense of vocation ’ . |
| 9 | Such desire for the other may be less the result of a desublimation of repressed desire than a consequence of desire itself being structured by social repression generally : thus the other may be cathected as ( an ) other beyond repression . |
| 10 | Induction , on the other hand , seems more like a form of inference than a form of knowledge . |
| 11 | This talk of the ‘ common spiritual etymon [ i.e. origin ] , the psychological root ’ of stylistic forms sounds more like my definition of the stylistics of manner than a view of style as representation . |
| 12 | Longing to scream at him to set her free , she reminded herself of her drama-school training , and instead forced herself to look as if she had no more feeling than a block of wood . |
| 13 | All the commands are dealt with but seemingly in as few words as possible , it 's more a quick reference guide than a piece of documentation . |
| 14 | The wintry sun , pale yellow and barely warm , hung above the new towers at Westminster , still with their fuzzy outline of scaffolding and looking more like giant columnar trees than a work of man . |
| 15 | No less a personage than a Member of Parliament was the victim , doubtless the accident report attributed the tragedy to driver error , and the outcry followed . |
| 16 | There is , however , obviously a great deal more to the history of Siberia than a catalogue of criminality and cold . |
| 17 | In many countries , regular servings of beer , wine and spirits contain roughly the same amount of alcohol — but many people still believe that a measure of spirits contains more alcohol than a glass of beer . |
| 18 | I think this is more to do with Wilko 's style than a lack of appreciation of Frankli : he always seems to bring on sub strikers very late in the game . |
| 19 | That swashbuckling youngster , though , had had more than one mishap and continues to look , at least at this juncture , less like an international full-back than a wing in exile . |
| 20 | Behind him Hrun screamed , but it sounded more like a bellow of rage than a cry of pain . |
| 21 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 22 | Mary Kingsley was certainly eccentric , not to say weird — a plain Victorian spinster with more of the masculine than feminine in her nature , who said of herself : ‘ The fact is I am no more a human being than a gale of wind is . ’ |
| 23 | But this is to say no more than that the presence of only one arbiter on the meaning of any of the conditions of jurisdiction produces more certainty than a division of responsibility . |
| 24 | The process demands simpler information than a collection of attainment target scores . |
| 25 | Ironically , having entered muon catalysed fusion initially to get away from the frenzy of high energy particle physics , Jones was about to be catapulted into greater media attention and controversy than a career in particle physics was ever likely to have given him ! |
| 26 | What better protection for the rich world 's vanishing wildlife than a tract of land that stays untouched because people are frightened to visit ? |
| 27 | Preparation for the task of managing by means of a partnership is less a matter of structured training than a process of growth . |
| 28 | Once again , however , the volunteer with powerful friends to reinforce his claims for advancement was in a much stronger position than a volunteer without influence . |
| 29 | It was considered the less discreditable way than a commission of bankruptcy , said Thomas Gisborne . |
| 30 | Shredding and slicing life , in Woolf 's view , menacing it with monotony and madness , in Lawrence 's , clocks provide for modernist fiction more of a threat than a sense of order and regularity . |