Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll get better copies off the headed paper , than off the shiny . |
| 2 | Is there an amplifier already on the market ( for less than about a grand ) that would offer all three sounds ? |
| 3 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 4 | However , Jerrome 's findings do not refer at all to ‘ tending ’ activities ; the importance of friends in old age seems to be more about a natural extension of satisfying experiences and modes of behaviour in earlier years than about a changed conception of the nature of the relationship which could accommodate more ‘ caring ’ activity . |
| 5 | ‘ Now this should n't take more than about an hour-and-a-half … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 7 | The governments going to Washington next month understand that ; and in working out what to sign up for , they will know more about the likely costs of taking action than about the benefits . |
| 8 | Thus although it may be quite safe to sow grasses and clovers on dry soils in the regions of low rainfall in the South and East of England in August , and in exceptional years even later , in regions of high rainfall such as prevail in Wales and most of the North and West of England it is likely to be somewhat risky to defer sowing later than about the middle of June . |
| 9 | It was that point in the morning when people usually began to think about the soup and potatoes that were expected shortly , rather than about the books they were reading . |
| 10 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 11 | The silly , extravagant , strange or ludicrous sound of an idea sometimes tells us more about ourselves , about our prejudices and resistance to change , than about the truth contained in the idea itself . ’ |
| 12 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 13 | But the Board was concerned far less about the private use of ‘ blue movies ’ as an aphrodisiac than about the increasing taste for sadism and other ‘ bizarre practices ’ in films and about the worrying influx into Britain of child pornography . |
| 14 | The critics were more enthusiastic about Dustin 's performance as the eccentric clerk than about the play , which limped through eleven performances , although it and Dustin won Obie awards — off-Broadway 's equivalent of the Tony . |
| 15 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 16 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 17 | The authorities were more worried about this group than about the NL and only one document about it his so far been released , despite the fact that it was successfully infiltrated by several agents . |
| 18 | ( The fact that this pittance is a step up says more about the depressed position of the housewife than about the wonderful privileges of the separated . ) |
| 19 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 20 | The concern with the ‘ immorality ’ of the working class said more about bourgeois morality than about the working class . |
| 21 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 22 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 23 | One wonders whether it does not say more about the worker than about the client . |
| 24 | Some students were more positive about the final-year work in lab than about the first-year work ; as one said , ‘ You can do what you want ; instead of being taught , you 've got to learn yourself ’ . |
| 25 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 26 | That tells me much more about the behaviour of Oppositions than about the behaviour of Governments . |
| 27 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 28 | It was easier for this head to talk about methods of producing unity than about the ideals behind it . |
| 29 | Obviously this may tell you more about me than about the works themselves . |
| 30 | The preferences of individual students may be determined in whole or part by the collective feeling about the teacher rather than about the subject itself . |