Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems the fathers faced were more related to the nature and person of Christ and his relationship to the triune Godhead than the meaning of the cross . |
| 2 | According to Labour 's own figures , in 1987 the Transport and General Workers Union gave more money to the Labour party than the whole of industry gave to the Tory party , and it gets votes for it , even on the leadership of the party . |
| 3 | Although the country 's economy suffered intolerable strains as a result of the war , hardship was much greater in the public domain than the private . |
| 4 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 5 | A leading physicist , Professor Freeman Dyson , has put forward the possibility that the depletion of oxygen in the oceans presents an even more serious threat to the global ecology than the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | … the position of upper-class housewife may be much more highly valued in the overall structure than the position of lower-class housewife . |
| 7 | That is why it is so terrible that what we offer , by and large , is a limited liability Christianity which is little more than a modern social convenience and more convenient to the white man than the black . |
| 8 | The recurrent descriptions of bishops restoring their cities may be inspired more by notions of the ideal bishop than the reality of an individual 's activities . |
| 9 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 10 | It is often more difficult to assess the " shape " of the receiving organisation than the shape of what is being received . |
| 11 | ‘ This would be more beneficial to the company and to the national economy than the audit . ’ |
| 12 | Grain has always been important as an indicator of national well-being and prosperity , with bulging granaries more important to security in the long term than the missile silos which often share the same farmlands . |
| 13 | As we have seen , the result was the emergence of social groupings resembling more the rigid hierarchy of the primal horde than the fluid community of the hunting band . |
| 14 | The group in the Smoking Room that afternoon resembled rather more the Angry Brigade than the Gang of Five . |
| 15 | In both cases the proportion is closer to the optimal proportion than the output to the optimal output . |
| 16 | A graph ( Figure ) of the corresponding readings shows that the sensitivity is greatest in the middle of the view field , and less on the lefthand side than the right . |
| 17 | Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who , as he admitted in his Autobiography , ‘ never handled a gun … seldom mounted a horse ’ but , living with his father , a country gentleman , at Buriton , near Petersfield , he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia , 476 strong , of which his father became major and a local nobleman , ‘ after a prolix and passionate contest ’ with the Lord Lieutenant , lieut. -colonel . |
| 18 | Both Walter Hilton and Dame Julian insist that God is transcendent and can not be described or grasped by the human mind , but they belong more to the Western tradition than the author of The Cloud of Unknowing . |
| 19 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 20 | And Robert McNamara , the new US Secretary of Defence , had even less of a feel for the special relationship than the President . |
| 21 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 22 | The books were hardly more revealing , seeming to be less of a private collection than the sort of works which might help visiting tourists dedicated to culture . |
| 23 | Contraband was discovered in interesting concealments such as a spare piston assembly in the engineroom of a Dutch ship ( found by Bob , our chief engineer , of course ) , and a spare drilling core at the bottom of the hold of a Spanish ship contained products more akin to a Spanish distillery than the bed of the North Sea . |
| 24 | However , it was argued that , if a foreign predator wishes to place a greater value on a British company than the stock market does , then that is to the benefit of shareholders . |
| 25 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 26 | Astra makes more sense as a public company than the Salim Group , mainly because its core businesses are obvious and integrated . |
| 27 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 28 | Few things can be more guaranteed to create a negative response than the sight of husband and wife sparring in public . |
| 29 | It was , therefore , all the more depressing for the Taylors to find colour more of a front-page issue than the fact that John raised nearly £1 million for Cheltenham 's unemployed and for local crime prevention . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps you would rather a good shafting than the whip ? ’ |