Example sentences of "than of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should err on the side of restraint , rather than of excess . |
| 2 | Writing when he did , and as he did , to justify an actual rebellion , it is perhaps not strange that he was thinking primarily of politics rather than of law , that the ‘ rights ’ he had in mind were the rights of man rather than the rights of the citizen , or that the sanction for these rights should be extralegal action rather than any constitutional check . |
| 3 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 4 | Tally , of Tally 's Corner , is another key informant , and Liebow ( 1967 ) acknowledges that this may mean that the account given in the book is more that of Tally himself than of others who lived around the street corner . |
| 5 | The main hypothesis is that some CSPs are socially differentiated in that they are not all used by every social group , and that people are more aware of these CSPs than of others . |
| 6 | On the other hand the gains from marketing are often more in terms of quality than of quantity . |
| 7 | The Gothic imagination dwelt on the mystery , and found it more productive of nightmares than of dreams of paradise . |
| 8 | Nevertheless a peculiar social blindness easily affects environmental judgements : we hear much more about the ‘ detrimental character ’ of refreshment kiosks than of boathouses and about the erosion of footpaths than the more severe ecological impact of persistent horse-riding or ski-ing . |
| 9 | That the relationships outside this conjugally-based family are , to varying degrees , reflections and expressions of choice , rather than of firm and unambiguous duty . |
| 10 | All men refuse to take responsibility for their actions at some time or other during their lives , and some men so consistently shirk their duty that they present more the appearance of overgrown children than of adults . |
| 11 | Cristofori must have included the check in his pianos from the point of view of design rather than of performance . |
| 12 | Where care is provided , it is far more often in the form of advice than of assistance with physical care . |
| 13 | A Belgian singer , René Jacobs , has long been admired as one of the most emotionally expressive of counter-tenors , but his exuberance is more in the line of Maria Callas than of Ethel Merman . |
| 14 | I remember as a child in Africa being more frightened of driver ants than of lions or crocodiles . |
| 15 | It is a matter of scale ; of working with like-minded , self-employed farmers and craftsmen rather than of subservience to faceless officials and giant firms . |
| 16 | During a recent election broadcast he featured as Sir Denis ‘ Foreman ’ — as in the foreman of a building site , rather than of Granada of which he used to be deputy chairman . |
| 17 | Almost alone , she rightly interpreted the situation as a conflict less of religious faiths than of nationalities , with overlapping claims based on transitory periods of medieval greatness . |
| 18 | The check had become a matter of necessity rather than of choice . |
| 19 | But its characteristics were more at the level of perception than of narrative : peripheral vision ; proximity to the image ; and massive amplification of sound . |
| 20 | ‘ It seems to me that snowdrops speak more of hopelessness than of hope . |
| 21 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 22 | When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay . |
| 23 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 24 | This is , however , a difference of degree rather than of kind . |
| 25 | I want to examine aspects of those preoccupations and ignore differences which are of varying orders rather than of kind . |
| 26 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 27 | In Buxtehude , as we have seen , there has been a sharp rise in bicycle use , though this is likely to be a result of the greatly increased opportunities for cycling ( and walking ) rather than of transfer from other modes . |
| 28 | A ‘ practitioner ’ view was also identified which was pragmatic , accepting elements of both the major value positions outlined here but being more aware of the need for different approaches in different individual cases , and more concerned about matters of detailed practice than of principle ( though this may mean simply that values and principles were not made explicit ) . |
| 29 | Further , part of the reduction in horizontal segregation has been a consequence of the entry of men into traditional areas of women 's employment , rather than of women into those higher-paying sectors traditionally monopolized by men . |
| 30 | Particularly striking were the much higher percentage of men than of women who were heads , and the much higher percentage of women than of men who were on the lowest two scales . |