Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the dagger thrown during the banquet and decided it would be safer to return through the crowded town than venture into the marshy wooded countryside . |
| 2 | Equally , there was more behind the successful launching of the SR party at the beginning of the new century than nostalgia for the romantic populism of a bygone age . |
| 3 | The conclusion from all these studies , that processing of Kanji is less dependent on the integrity of the left hemisphere than processing of Kana , is supported by electrophysiological findings ( Hink , Kaga and Suzuki , 1980 ) and by results obtained with three patients who sustained partial commissurotomy in the course of removal of pineal gland tumours ( Sugishita , Iwata , Toyokura , Yoshioka and Yamada , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 5 | On the whole the ‘ human potential ’ therapies require less of a time-and-attendance commitment than psychoanalysis , and there are more opportunities for group workshops . |
| 6 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 7 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 8 | If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life , then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned . |
| 9 | Images , she notes , are signifiers of a different order than language . |
| 10 | 4 It 's easier to get forgiveness for a poor decision than permission for a good one . |
| 11 | Turbocharged engines generally produce more power and torque for a given capacity than non-turbo-charged ( naturally-aspirated ) engines , and have better specific fuel consumption ( fuel used per kW/hr ) . |
| 12 | Many of the local scallop divers in the Poole area swear by these computers , if for no other reason than reliability and price — and this type of diver is notoriously difficult to please . |
| 13 | The sex in porn is a particular kind of sex , that which the prostitute symbolises : sex outside marriage or the bounds of romantic love ; sex as a transaction ; sex with no other context than desire or reward . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society , a British group , now hopes to demonstrate to the Japanese that whale-watching is more profitable in the long run than whaling . |
| 16 | This approach is typified by Mackay , who has argued that because injury reduction was more realistic in the short term than accident prevention , one should think of the front end of a car ‘ primarily as a structure with which to hit a pedestrian ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ . It is easier and quicker to edit words in an existing layout than type in afresh . |
| 18 | Further , although incorrectly terminated , the input impedance of a section terminated with resistance is much closer to the characteristic impedance than resistance . |
| 19 | Yet during his day he featured as a significant Afro-Asian leader , a ‘ charismatic ’ personality like Nehru who made a far greater impact on the international scene than Nu with his disarming frankness and humility . |
| 20 | There is a general perception that operating leases , where leased assets are not capitalised by the lessee , reduce borrowing capacity to a lesser extent than bank borrowing . |