Example sentences of "[noun] than by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed more surprised by intrusive bombs than by the unexpected meeting . |
| 2 | Horizontal equity is met more nearly by a wealth tax than by a higher income tax rate on unearned income ( income from property ) or than on income from work . |
| 3 | Though we need not go along all the way with this characteristically provocative view ( and even Keller found ‘ a few playable exceptions ’ ) , I confess to wondering whether this is not one of those issues motivated less by musical need than by the pious opportunism of which we saw so much in the bicentenary year . |
| 4 | During speaking , but not in the silent conditions , free movements were made more by the right than by the left hand ( see also Kimura and Humphrey , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | At home our relationships are far more strained by not expressing our feelings than by the silent death of suppressing them . |
| 6 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 7 | The 5000-word critical analysis , which may or may not be supported by graphical evidence , has also been criticised as being a test more of the candidate 's authorship than of his professional ability , and an exercise more easily tackled by the ex-full-time student than by the part-time candidate . |
| 8 | In practice this should mean that the design of consents has been influenced less by conceptions about the similarity of discharges than by a scientific analysis of the impact a particular discharge may have on a particular watercourse and the polluting load that that watercourse can accept , according to agency plans for river quality . |
| 9 | The use of legal drugs ( alcohol and tobacco ) in this century is certainly characterised more by this model than by a bell-shaped curve , despite efforts to control their use . |
| 10 | Earning money was rated more highly by students wanting to work in legal services than by the average student and London is selected by 59 per cent of them as the region they would most like to work in . |
| 11 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 12 | The pattern of AIDS research is also likely to be profoundly shaped by the events of the past few weeks , but more importantly by the articles by Fauci and Haase and their colleagues than by the preliminary report of the Anglo-French study . |