Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] [noun] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedures adopted for each category of incident are of less interest than the issue of how these patterns are able to coexist with the unexpected nature of much police work . |
| 2 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 3 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 4 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 5 | Within sublanguage applications a generative approach may be of more use than a probabilistic method . |
| 6 | As a consequence , although a company might have more or less orders at any one time , it is less likely to be without any orders than the one-man operation which can contract to only one customer at any one time . |
| 7 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 8 | It took as long again for their theories to be discredited , despite the fact that almost none of their Hollywood idols would agree that they were the sole auteur of the films they made ; while the greatest weakness of their belief was that the most flawed work by one of their preferred film-makers was of more interest than a major piece by one of those they did not rate . |
| 9 | The fact that Holding ( who had 6 for 65 in the first innings ) and Julien conceded four an over from 34 overs and the spinners only just over two an over from 105 was of less significance than the spinners ' inability to bowl batsmen out . |
| 10 | The red-hot steel tyre would be placed in position around the wheel ; if the tyre was of less width than the rim , temporary nails were partly driven into the wood to stop the tyre slipping down to the steel plate . |
| 11 | We well a a foreman usually was over more workers than a charge- hand was . |