Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vapour is a mixture of the more volatile component A and the less volatile component B. The particles of the more volatile component have a greater tendency to escape from the liquid than the particles of the less volatile component . |
| 2 | By looking at the diagram though , you will probably see that the smaller sleeve length is also narrower at the top than the measurements in your size . |
| 3 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 4 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 5 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 6 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 7 | Is Pasolini 's The Gospel According to St Matthew closer to the original than the Jesus of Christianity ? |
| 8 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 9 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 10 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 11 | For all the earthy language and talk of struggles to come , it sounded more like community singing in a bomb-shelter than a call to arms . |
| 12 | It has now been addressed with elegant passion by no more subversive a revolutionary than the president of Assurances Generales de France , Michel Albert . |
| 13 | And there would be no more reason for establishing the membership of a co-operative than the investors in a joint stock company as such a group . |
| 14 | There could scarcely be a less promising environment for an amphibian than the desert of central Australia where sometimes several years may pass without any rain falling . |