Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] than by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Our secular work is guided more by a system of economics than by the Gospel . |
| 3 | The interim government , a coalition of conservative parties , was bound more by common hostility to Bhutto than by a consensus on policy . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal was restricted by Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , s.11(3) which provided that the Court might not deal with an offender on appeal in a manner which resulted in him being dealt with more severely on appeal than by the court below . |
| 5 | The list had included most of the significant contemporary Danish artists and this behaviour apparently demonstrates , as Kunstavisen remarks , ‘ that artists today are more preoccupied by money than by the art they are making ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I most grateful to the minister for giving way and it 's good to see the government er at last acknowledging the justice of the amendments to do exactly what we 're proposing now that we put in to most of the committees like the building societies c c c b b bill a and like the banking bill when they were discussing the nineteen eighties but Lord Justice Bingham also recommended er and I quote , the determination of the correct relationship between client , auditor and supervisor raises an issue of policy more appropriate for decision making by parliament than by the bank and the accounting profession . |
| 8 | Gould ) , and the House of Lords ( of which it has been asked whether we can continue to afford it as a court of ultimate resort in criminal law , a question prompted less by economics than by an expositor 's desire for consistency ) . |
| 9 | Doctrinally it demonstrates that ‘ development ’ may have to proceed at times more by reversal than by an extension of what has hitherto been taught . |