Example sentences of "[noun sg] than by [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was if anything more irritated by the quiet drumming of the electric typewriter than by the clatter of the old mechanical one . |
| 2 | However , on reflection , he decided that the question of the relationship between client , auditor and supervisor would be better settled by Parliament than by the Bank of England and the accounting profession . |
| 3 | It is a process which has led universities — some of them at least — to appear to be driven less by the pursuit of knowledge than by the pursuit of funding . |
| 4 | Here she was prompted less by social conscience than by a delight in drama . |
| 5 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 6 | At the time Louisa was more impressed by the fact that Henry had lied to their father than by the dreariness of the place . |
| 7 | Estimating the loss in value of a machine in a year is difficult in itself , and may be guided less by the physical state of the asset than by the possibility of tax concessions . |
| 8 | Doctrinally it demonstrates that ‘ development ’ may have to proceed at times more by reversal than by an extension of what has hitherto been taught . |