Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun sg] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a majority of 56 per cent to 22 per cent , citizens found television more useful than the press for providing issue-information ( a further 22 per cent found them equally useful ) . |
| 2 | By a smaller majority of 48 per cent to 30 per cent , they found tele-Vision more useful than the press for providing information about party leaders ( with 22 per cent , once again , rating the two sources equally useful ) . |
| 3 | Moreover , Lord Cross 's appeal to the meaning of the word rape in common usage and the ordinary man 's understanding of rape is no more than a pretext for introducing his own view of what rape means . |
| 4 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 5 | Occupation is never more than a shorthand for allocating social class , which leaves out other key dimensions : your education , or the house you live in , for instance . |
| 6 | But while the telephone itself remains little more than an instrument for reproducing speech and other sounds at a distance , over the last decade we have seen dramatic growth in the availability and use of computers , modems and fax to transmit documentary and computerised information over the telephone network . |
| 7 | But I was the most expensive single piece of aid donated to that district of Ghana — more than the money for sinking wells — so it is relevant to ask whether it was worth it . |
| 8 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 9 | All that said , the case for taking him was still not all that much stronger than the case for leaving him out . |
| 10 | In other words , managers ' salaries have to be made incentive-compatible , so that the penalty for sending a false ‘ good ’ signal is always greater than the penalty for sending a true ‘ bad ’ signal . |